Stevan Harnad
Biographic Data
| ID | 79193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stevan Harnad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stevan |
| FAMILY NAME | Harnad |
| SIGNATURE | HARNAD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6153-1129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Underrepresented Minority Recruitment
This article offers a historical perspective on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in health professions. Historians have highlighted how workforce shortages have facilitated increased gender diversity in male-dominated scientific and clinical occupations. Less attention has been given to manpower as a motivator for enhancing racial/ethnic diversity. I explore the history of minority recruitment, retention, and inclusion initiatives in …
On theexocerebrum
This is an exchange of letters by email occurred in 2005. They reflect a discussion on fundamental issues of the study of consciousness and the brain. The starting point was Bartra’s text on the exocerebrum. This text is now expanded into a book published in English by Cambridge University Press in 2014: Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will. All Harnad’s texts are in italics
Creación y mantenimiento del conocimiento compartido
Historical overview of the significant contributions the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has made to promote open access (OA), leading this movement worldwide. The advantages and disadvantages of the so-called greenway (self-archiving in repositories) and golden road (author pays) are presented. An analysis is made of the historical mistake of promoting the golden road to open access, instead of the gre…
The immediate practical implication of the Houghton Report
Among the many important implications of Houghton et al’s (2009) timely and illuminating JISC analysis of the costs and benefits of providing free online access (“Open Access,” OA) to peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journal articles one stands out as particularly compelling: It would yield a forty-fold benefit/cost ratio if the world’s peer-reviewed research were all self-archived by its authors so as to make it OA. There are many assumpti…
Maximizing research progress through Open Access mandates and metrics | Maximizando o avanço da pesquisa pelos mandatos e métricas sobre o Acesso Livre
Maximizing research progress through Open Access mandates and metrics | Maximizando o avanço da pesquisa pelos mandatos e métricas sobre o Acesso Livre
Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings
A rich and diverse set of potential bibliometric and scientometric predictors of research performance quality and importance are emerging today -from the classic metrics (publication counts, journal impact factors and individual article/author citation counts) to promising new online metrics such as download counts, hub/authority scores and growth/decay chronometrics. In and of themselves, however, metrics are circular: They need to be jointly te…
Maturana’s autopoietic hermeneutics versus Turing’s causal methodology for explaining cognition
Kravchenko (2007) suggests replacing Turing’s suggestion for explaining cognizers’ cognitive capacity through autonomous robotic modelling by ‘autopoiesis’, Maturana’s extremely vague metaphor for the relations and interactions among organisms, environments, and various subordinate and superordinate systems (‘autopoietic systems’) therein. I suggest that this would be an exercise in hermeneutics rather than causal explanation
Distributed cognition
Some of the papers in this Special Issue distribute cognition between what is going on inside individual cognizers’ heads and their outside worlds; others distribute cognition among different individual cognizers. Turing’s criterion for cognition was for individual, autonomous input/output capacity. It is not clear that distributed cognition could pass the Turing Test
Distributed processes, distributed cognizers, and collaborative cognition
Cognition is thinking; it feels like something to think, and only those who can feel can think. There are also things that thinkers can do. We know neither how thinkers can think nor how they are able to do what they can do. We are waiting for cognitive science to discover how. Cognitive science does this by testing hypotheses about what processes can generate what doing (“know-how”).This is called the Turing Test. It cannot test whether a proces…
Learned inquiry and the Net
I should begin by defining some of the metaphors I use in this paper. By the ‘Gutenberg Galaxy’ I mean the world of print on paper. Thus the ‘PostGutenberg Galaxy’ is its successor, the virtual world of bytes on tape, disk and screen — and especially dispersal in the fibreoptic cables enmeshing the globe and transmitting them everywhere at the speed of light. I also use the term ‘Skywriting,’ for the dissemination of the written word in the PostG…
Sorting the esoteica from the exoterica
Cet article est une reponse a un article precedent faisant une critique d'un article de ce meme auteur. L'auteur de cet article souligne le fait que, pour lui, les publications electroniques sont applicables dans le domaine scientifique et technique et non pour la litterature classique dans les universites. L'auteur reprend des passages de l'article qui le critiquait et repond aux objections de son collegue
The postgutenberg galaxy
Cet article traite de l'ere de l'information et de l'avantage des editions electroniques pour les publications esoteriques. Alors que la litterature classique ne se trouvera jamais en publication electronique, les articles esoteriques, compte tenu de leur specialisation et du nombre de lecteurs qu'ils rassemblent, ont leur place sur les reseaux electroniques. Cette article propose donc une argumentation de cette these
The symbol grounding problem
Rational Disagreement in Peer Review
A certain degree of disagreement is not only a healthy but an informative and even essential aspect of\nscientific activity
Commentaries, opinions, and the growth of scientific knowledge
Commentaries, opinions, and the growth of scientific knowledge
Analogy and Mysticism and the Structure of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Examples are drawn from the cultures of China, Africa, Tibet and Japan, and the Navaho in support of a model for human cognitive processing which assumes that a major component of the rules for calculating human behavior is resident outside the individual in the symbolic artifacts of culture. An Appositional Transformation Operator (ATO) is specified that can relate semantic concepts and patterns of behavior by analogy. The ATO is shown to work w…
On Gender Differences and Language
On Split-Brain Research and the Culture-and-Cognition Paradox
Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings
A rich and diverse set of potential bibliometric and scientometric predictors of research performance quality and importance are emerging today -from the classic metrics (publication counts, journal impact factors and individual article/author citation counts) to promising new online metrics such as download counts, hub/authority scores and growth/decay chronometrics. In and of themselves, however, metrics are circular: They need to be jointly te…
Rational Disagreement in Peer Review
A certain degree of disagreement is not only a healthy but an informative and even essential aspect of\nscientific activity
Analogy and Mysticism and the Structure of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Examples are drawn from the cultures of China, Africa, Tibet and Japan, and the Navaho in support of a model for human cognitive processing which assumes that a major component of the rules for calculating human behavior is resident outside the individual in the symbolic artifacts of culture. An Appositional Transformation Operator (ATO) is specified that can relate semantic concepts and patterns of behavior by analogy. The ATO is shown to work w…
Sorting the esoteica from the exoterica
Cet article est une reponse a un article precedent faisant une critique d'un article de ce meme auteur. L'auteur de cet article souligne le fait que, pour lui, les publications electroniques sont applicables dans le domaine scientifique et technique et non pour la litterature classique dans les universites. L'auteur reprend des passages de l'article qui le critiquait et repond aux objections de son collegue
Creación y mantenimiento del conocimiento compartido
Historical overview of the significant contributions the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has made to promote open access (OA), leading this movement worldwide. The advantages and disadvantages of the so-called greenway (self-archiving in repositories) and golden road (author pays) are presented. An analysis is made of the historical mistake of promoting the golden road to open access, instead of the gre…
Learned inquiry and the Net
I should begin by defining some of the metaphors I use in this paper. By the ‘Gutenberg Galaxy’ I mean the world of print on paper. Thus the ‘PostGutenberg Galaxy’ is its successor, the virtual world of bytes on tape, disk and screen — and especially dispersal in the fibreoptic cables enmeshing the globe and transmitting them everywhere at the speed of light. I also use the term ‘Skywriting,’ for the dissemination of the written word in the PostG…
The postgutenberg galaxy
Cet article traite de l'ere de l'information et de l'avantage des editions electroniques pour les publications esoteriques. Alors que la litterature classique ne se trouvera jamais en publication electronique, les articles esoteriques, compte tenu de leur specialisation et du nombre de lecteurs qu'ils rassemblent, ont leur place sur les reseaux electroniques. Cette article propose donc une argumentation de cette these
On Gender Differences and Language
On Split-Brain Research and the Culture-and-Cognition Paradox
Analogy and Mysticism and the Structure of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Examples are drawn from the cultures of China, Africa, Tibet and Japan, and the Navaho in support of a model for human cognitive processing which assumes that a major component of the rules for calculating human behavior is resident outside the individual in the symbolic artifacts of culture. An Appositional Transformation Operator (ATO) is specified that can relate semantic concepts and patterns of behavior by analogy. The ATO is shown to work w…
Commentaries, opinions, and the growth of scientific knowledge
Commentaries, opinions, and the growth of scientific knowledge
Rational Disagreement in Peer Review
A certain degree of disagreement is not only a healthy but an informative and even essential aspect of\nscientific activity
The symbol grounding problem
Sorting the esoteica from the exoterica
Cet article est une reponse a un article precedent faisant une critique d'un article de ce meme auteur. L'auteur de cet article souligne le fait que, pour lui, les publications electroniques sont applicables dans le domaine scientifique et technique et non pour la litterature classique dans les universites. L'auteur reprend des passages de l'article qui le critiquait et repond aux objections de son collegue
The postgutenberg galaxy
Cet article traite de l'ere de l'information et de l'avantage des editions electroniques pour les publications esoteriques. Alors que la litterature classique ne se trouvera jamais en publication electronique, les articles esoteriques, compte tenu de leur specialisation et du nombre de lecteurs qu'ils rassemblent, ont leur place sur les reseaux electroniques. Cette article propose donc une argumentation de cette these
Learned inquiry and the Net
I should begin by defining some of the metaphors I use in this paper. By the ‘Gutenberg Galaxy’ I mean the world of print on paper. Thus the ‘PostGutenberg Galaxy’ is its successor, the virtual world of bytes on tape, disk and screen — and especially dispersal in the fibreoptic cables enmeshing the globe and transmitting them everywhere at the speed of light. I also use the term ‘Skywriting,’ for the dissemination of the written word in the PostG…
Distributed processes, distributed cognizers, and collaborative cognition
Cognition is thinking; it feels like something to think, and only those who can feel can think. There are also things that thinkers can do. We know neither how thinkers can think nor how they are able to do what they can do. We are waiting for cognitive science to discover how. Cognitive science does this by testing hypotheses about what processes can generate what doing (“know-how”).This is called the Turing Test. It cannot test whether a proces…
Distributed cognition
Some of the papers in this Special Issue distribute cognition between what is going on inside individual cognizers’ heads and their outside worlds; others distribute cognition among different individual cognizers. Turing’s criterion for cognition was for individual, autonomous input/output capacity. It is not clear that distributed cognition could pass the Turing Test
Maturana’s autopoietic hermeneutics versus Turing’s causal methodology for explaining cognition
Kravchenko (2007) suggests replacing Turing’s suggestion for explaining cognizers’ cognitive capacity through autonomous robotic modelling by ‘autopoiesis’, Maturana’s extremely vague metaphor for the relations and interactions among organisms, environments, and various subordinate and superordinate systems (‘autopoietic systems’) therein. I suggest that this would be an exercise in hermeneutics rather than causal explanation
Maximizing research progress through Open Access mandates and metrics | Maximizando o avanço da pesquisa pelos mandatos e métricas sobre o Acesso Livre
Maximizing research progress through Open Access mandates and metrics | Maximizando o avanço da pesquisa pelos mandatos e métricas sobre o Acesso Livre
Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings
A rich and diverse set of potential bibliometric and scientometric predictors of research performance quality and importance are emerging today -from the classic metrics (publication counts, journal impact factors and individual article/author citation counts) to promising new online metrics such as download counts, hub/authority scores and growth/decay chronometrics. In and of themselves, however, metrics are circular: They need to be jointly te…
The immediate practical implication of the Houghton Report
Among the many important implications of Houghton et al’s (2009) timely and illuminating JISC analysis of the costs and benefits of providing free online access (“Open Access,” OA) to peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journal articles one stands out as particularly compelling: It would yield a forty-fold benefit/cost ratio if the world’s peer-reviewed research were all self-archived by its authors so as to make it OA. There are many assumpti…
Creación y mantenimiento del conocimiento compartido
Historical overview of the significant contributions the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has made to promote open access (OA), leading this movement worldwide. The advantages and disadvantages of the so-called greenway (self-archiving in repositories) and golden road (author pays) are presented. An analysis is made of the historical mistake of promoting the golden road to open access, instead of the gre…
On theexocerebrum
This is an exchange of letters by email occurred in 2005. They reflect a discussion on fundamental issues of the study of consciousness and the brain. The starting point was Bartra’s text on the exocerebrum. This text is now expanded into a book published in English by Cambridge University Press in 2014: Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will. All Harnad’s texts are in italics
Underrepresented Minority Recruitment
This article offers a historical perspective on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in health professions. Historians have highlighted how workforce shortages have facilitated increased gender diversity in male-dominated scientific and clinical occupations. Less attention has been given to manpower as a motivator for enhancing racial/ethnic diversity. I explore the history of minority recruitment, retention, and inclusion initiatives in …
Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Academic Publishing and Open Access (3 works) · Art (3 works)