Hajo Greif
Biographic Data
| ID | 5993649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hajo Greif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hajo |
| FAMILY NAME | Greif |
| SIGNATURE | GREIF H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Warsaw University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1003-7494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The ‘Aristotle Experience’ Revisited
This article takes issue with Kuhn’s description of the ‘Aristotle experience,’ an event that took place in 1947 and that he retrospectively characterized as a revelation that instantly delivered to him the key concepts of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). We trace a certain transformation of this narrative over time: whereas it commenced from a description of his impression of disparity between the textbook image of science and the…
Selection, growth and form. Turing’s two biological paths towards intelligent machinery
We inquire into the role of Turing's biological thought in the development of his concept of intelligent machinery. We trace the possible relations between his proto-connectionist notion of 'organising' machines in Turing (1948) on the one hand and his mathematical theory of morphogenesis in developmental biology (1952) on the other. These works were concerned with distinct fields of inquiry and followed distinct paradigms of biological theory, r…
Turing’s Biological Philosophy
Alan M. Turing’s last published work and some posthumously published manuscripts were dedicated to the development of his theory of organic pattern formation. In “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis” (1952), he provided an elaborated mathematical formulation of the theory of the origins of biological form that had been first proposed by Sir D’Arcy Wendworth Thompson in On Growth and Form (1917/1942). While arguably his most mathematically detaile…
Adaptation and its analogues
Teleosemantic" or "biosemantic" theories form a strong naturalistic programme in the philosophy of mind and language. They seek to explain the nature of mind and language by recourse to a natural history of "proper functions" as selected-for effects of language- and thought-producing mechanisms. However, they remain vague with respect to the nature of the proposed analogy between selected-for effects on the biological level and phenomena that are…
What is the extension of the extended mind
Two aspects of cognitive coupling, as brought forward in the Extended Mind Hypothesis, are discussed in this paper: (1) how shall the functional coupling between the organism and some entity in his environment be spelled out in detail? (2) What are the paradigmatic external entities to enter into that coupling? These two related questions are best answered in the light of an aetiological variety of functionalist argument that adds historical dept…
The Darwinian tension
Ethics, Society, Politics
A real book on ethics, as Wittgenstein had it, if one could conceive it in the first place, would be the book to destroy all other books. Yet there is an increasing number of real-world discourses in which ethical values are mobilized as justifications for socio-political action while, in turn, moral problems are becoming a topic of political negotiation. Although it will be difficult to find systematic accounts of an absolute good or of absolute…
Vernetzung Als Soziales und Technisches Paradigma
Cultures of Participation
New media take part in the configuration of a particular form of political participation: mobilisations and collective action. Contemporary social movements not only resort to ICTs, such as mobile phones and the Internet, in order to increase efficacy and efficiency. ICTs are not mere tools for mobilisations, whose fundamental objectives and strategies would remain the same. Therefore, our hypothesis differs from the concept of smart mobs coined …
Sustainability Ict Visions and Their Embedding in Technology Construction
How do engineers and software developers perceive the link between the sustainability theme and their development activity? Chances and limits of using the sustainability concept in the sphere of ICT construction are commented based on the results of an empirical study conducted between 2006 and 2007, with design, system, and software engineers in Austrian companies
What is the extension of the extended mind
Two aspects of cognitive coupling, as brought forward in the Extended Mind Hypothesis, are discussed in this paper: (1) how shall the functional coupling between the organism and some entity in his environment be spelled out in detail? (2) What are the paradigmatic external entities to enter into that coupling? These two related questions are best answered in the light of an aetiological variety of functionalist argument that adds historical dept…
The Darwinian tension
Sustainability Ict Visions and Their Embedding in Technology Construction
How do engineers and software developers perceive the link between the sustainability theme and their development activity? Chances and limits of using the sustainability concept in the sphere of ICT construction are commented based on the results of an empirical study conducted between 2006 and 2007, with design, system, and software engineers in Austrian companies
Vernetzung Als Soziales und Technisches Paradigma
Cultures of Participation
New media take part in the configuration of a particular form of political participation: mobilisations and collective action. Contemporary social movements not only resort to ICTs, such as mobile phones and the Internet, in order to increase efficacy and efficiency. ICTs are not mere tools for mobilisations, whose fundamental objectives and strategies would remain the same. Therefore, our hypothesis differs from the concept of smart mobs coined …
Ethics, Society, Politics
A real book on ethics, as Wittgenstein had it, if one could conceive it in the first place, would be the book to destroy all other books. Yet there is an increasing number of real-world discourses in which ethical values are mobilized as justifications for socio-political action while, in turn, moral problems are becoming a topic of political negotiation. Although it will be difficult to find systematic accounts of an absolute good or of absolute…
The Darwinian tension
What is the extension of the extended mind
Two aspects of cognitive coupling, as brought forward in the Extended Mind Hypothesis, are discussed in this paper: (1) how shall the functional coupling between the organism and some entity in his environment be spelled out in detail? (2) What are the paradigmatic external entities to enter into that coupling? These two related questions are best answered in the light of an aetiological variety of functionalist argument that adds historical dept…
Adaptation and its analogues
Teleosemantic" or "biosemantic" theories form a strong naturalistic programme in the philosophy of mind and language. They seek to explain the nature of mind and language by recourse to a natural history of "proper functions" as selected-for effects of language- and thought-producing mechanisms. However, they remain vague with respect to the nature of the proposed analogy between selected-for effects on the biological level and phenomena that are…
Turing’s Biological Philosophy
Alan M. Turing’s last published work and some posthumously published manuscripts were dedicated to the development of his theory of organic pattern formation. In “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis” (1952), he provided an elaborated mathematical formulation of the theory of the origins of biological form that had been first proposed by Sir D’Arcy Wendworth Thompson in On Growth and Form (1917/1942). While arguably his most mathematically detaile…
The ‘Aristotle Experience’ Revisited
This article takes issue with Kuhn’s description of the ‘Aristotle experience,’ an event that took place in 1947 and that he retrospectively characterized as a revelation that instantly delivered to him the key concepts of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). We trace a certain transformation of this narrative over time: whereas it commenced from a description of his impression of disparity between the textbook image of science and the…
Selection, growth and form. Turing’s two biological paths towards intelligent machinery
We inquire into the role of Turing's biological thought in the development of his concept of intelligent machinery. We trace the possible relations between his proto-connectionist notion of 'organising' machines in Turing (1948) on the one hand and his mathematical theory of morphogenesis in developmental biology (1952) on the other. These works were concerned with distinct fields of inquiry and followed distinct paradigms of biological theory, r…
Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Description number (2 works)