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2019
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(2019): The metaphysics of representation. Kettering: Oxford University Press
Abstract: Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that mundane events such as processing a thought?and from there putting those thoughts into words?acquire this property of 'aboutness'? How can expressions, which depend on anything from the most fundamental regularities in the universe to trivial matters of gossip, be either true or false? In The Metaphysics of Representation, J. Robert G. Williams tells a story about how representational properties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world. The representational properties of language are reduced, via convention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles of rationalization, to the representational properties of perception and intention. And this most fundamental layer of representation is explained in terms of the functions they have to communicate. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of representation, give new predictions and explanations of representational phenomena, and offer new solutions to long-standing problems.
2016
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(2016): A context-aware approach in realization of socially intelligent industrial robots. In: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 37, S. 79-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2015.07.002
Abstract: Contemporary industrial environments are usually constrained or limited in order to fit a fast, cheap and non-error prone production. Human-like system capabilities are not generally desirable there. But, recent trends in industrial robotics demand robust, flexible and efficient robots with a certain level of autonomy. Therefore, new and different approaches and perspectives in designing of industrial facilities are required. This paper reveals how a context-based reasoning can be used to achieve an intelligent robot group behavior. In order to achieve adaptivity, self-recovery or scalability of the system, a COgnitive MOdel for the Robot group control (COMOR) is developed. COMOR can be understood as an interpreter used to transform high-level context to low-level data, allowing machines to make context-based decisions. COMOR has three main parts and relies on a simulated Social Capital phenomenon as a feature of people. The first part is used to collect significant information from the environment. The second part is used to provide a set of possible solutions respecting the semantic domain description. The last part of COMOR is used to provide a behavioral component ensuring an optimal solution to given environmental conditions.
Keywords: adaptivity, Cognitive robotics, COMOR, COMOR / Social Capital, Context-awareness, Kognitionswissenschaft/Social Sciences/Humanities, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Ontology, Probabilistic graphical models, Realtechnik, Sozial Intelligente Agenten, Soziale Robotik, Soziosensitive Systeme, Technik, Ubiquitous computing 2015
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(2015): A Framework for Social Ontology. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (2), S. 147-167. DOI: 10.1177/0048393115613494
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(2015): Dynamic Interactions of Agency in Leadership (DIAL). An Integrative Framework for Analysing Agency in Sustainability Leadership. In: Journal of Business Ethics 126 (4), S. 649-662. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1977-7
Abstract: This article investigates agency as a way of being and acting in sustainability leadership. Our primary aim is to enhance understanding of agentic strategies that facilitate transcending systemic complexities in sustainability leadership. We make a distinction in our analytical approach by drawing from Emirbayer and Mische's (Am J Sociol 103:41, 1998) conceptualisation of agency as 'an interactive process of reflexive transformation and relational pragmatics, a temporally embedded process of social engagement, informed by the past, oriented towards the future and enacted in the present' (p. 963). We add ontological sources of agency to these dynamics which interact with habit, imagination, judgement and learning in the transformation of social systems. This approach underpins our model 'Dynamic Interactions of Agency in Leadership' (DIAL), an integrative framework for analysing agency in sustainability leadership. We examine the efficacy of our framework in higher education initiatives in which sustainability aspirations, aims and actions are envisioned, articulated and mobilised. We conclude by offering further avenues of research in sustainability leadership designed to advance this burgeoning field and contribute to bridging the gap between sustainability challenges and our abilities to solve them.
2012
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(2012): One’s a Crowd?. On Greenwood’s Delimitation of the Social. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (4), S. 519-530. DOI: 10.1177/0048393112454335
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393112454335 Abstract: In an effort to carve a distinct place for social facts without lapsing into a holistic ontology, John Greenwood has sought to define social phenomena solely in terms of the attitudes held by the actor(s) in question. I argue that his proposal allows for the possibility of a “lone collectivity” that is (1) unpalatable in its own right and (2) incompatible with the claim that sociology is autonomous from psychology. As such, I conclude that the relevant beliefs need to be held by more than one person.
Keywords: Anerkennung und kollektive Intentionalität, Durkheim, Game Theory, Gilbert, Gruppennorm, Gruppenverhalten / Joint Action, individualism, Intellektualtechnik, Kogn. Architektur, kognitive Architekturen, kollektive Intentionalität, Künstliche Intelligenz, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Natur & Genese von Normen, Ontology, philosophy of the social sciences, Realtechnik, social psychology, Sociology, Technik, Theorie der Normen und Kollektive Repräsentationen (Durkheim) 2010
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(2010): Foundational Paradigms of Social Sciences. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (2), S. 211-249. DOI: 10.1177/0048393109355294
2008
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(2008) : Human-robot interaction In: Kelsey, Sigrid; St. Amant, Kirk (Hg.): Handbook of research on computer mediated communication., Vols. 1-2: Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference/IGI Global, S. 855-867. Online verfügbar unter http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2008-09375-061&site=ehost-live
DOI: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2008-09375-061&site=ehost-live Abstract: Some people regard the personal mobile robot as a candidate for the next digital revolution as it might become a future ubiquitous tool and everyday partner of humans. This new 'socio-emotional' robot is supposed to conduct dialogue, to develop social competencies and to support users in everyday life. In this chapter, I sketch out the epistemological, ontological and techno-material groundings of personal service robotics which is based on new models of human-machine interaction like caregiver-infant or pet-owner. I discuss the conversational paradigm in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with its problematic concepts of 'pre-given' social mechanisms, uninformed users as well as its new understanding of sociality as service. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
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