Carson Logan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3960152 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carson Logan |
| PRENOMES | Carson |
| SOBRENOME | Logan |
| ASSINATURA | LOGAN C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 3 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Supernatural agents and prosociality in historical China
A major source of attention paid to high gods in the fields of cultural evolution and cognitive science is the social effects of belief in high gods. Belief in high gods is both hypothesized to catalyze a cognitive punishment-avoidance mechanism at the level of individual minds, and a group cultural evolutionary mechanism that amplifies in-group cooperation. Recent research into non-Western contexts not only indicates a multiplicity of supernatur…
Modeling the Contested Relationship betweenAnalects, Mencius, andXunzi
This article presents preliminary findings from a multi-year, multi-disciplinary text analysis project using an ancient and medieval Chinese corpus of over five million characters in works that date from the earliest received texts to the Song dynasty. It describes "distant reading" methods in the humanities and the authors' corpus; introduces topic-modeling procedures; answers questions about the authors' data; discusses complementary relationsh…
The Distant Reading of Religious Texts
This article focuses on the debate about mind-body concepts in early China to demonstrate the usefulness of large-scale, automated textual analysis techniques for scholars of religion. As previous scholarship has argued, traditional, “close” textual reading, as well as more recent, human coder-based analyses, of early Chinese texts have called into question the “strong” holist position, or the claim that the early Chinese made no qualitative dist…
The Distant Reading of Religious Texts
This article focuses on the debate about mind-body concepts in early China to demonstrate the usefulness of large-scale, automated textual analysis techniques for scholars of religion. As previous scholarship has argued, traditional, “close” textual reading, as well as more recent, human coder-based analyses, of early Chinese texts have called into question the “strong” holist position, or the claim that the early Chinese made no qualitative dist…
Modeling the Contested Relationship betweenAnalects, Mencius, andXunzi
This article presents preliminary findings from a multi-year, multi-disciplinary text analysis project using an ancient and medieval Chinese corpus of over five million characters in works that date from the earliest received texts to the Song dynasty. It describes "distant reading" methods in the humanities and the authors' corpus; introduces topic-modeling procedures; answers questions about the authors' data; discusses complementary relationsh…
The Distant Reading of Religious Texts
This article focuses on the debate about mind-body concepts in early China to demonstrate the usefulness of large-scale, automated textual analysis techniques for scholars of religion. As previous scholarship has argued, traditional, “close” textual reading, as well as more recent, human coder-based analyses, of early Chinese texts have called into question the “strong” holist position, or the claim that the early Chinese made no qualitative dist…
Modeling the Contested Relationship betweenAnalects, Mencius, andXunzi
This article presents preliminary findings from a multi-year, multi-disciplinary text analysis project using an ancient and medieval Chinese corpus of over five million characters in works that date from the earliest received texts to the Song dynasty. It describes "distant reading" methods in the humanities and the authors' corpus; introduces topic-modeling procedures; answers questions about the authors' data; discusses complementary relationsh…
Supernatural agents and prosociality in historical China
A major source of attention paid to high gods in the fields of cultural evolution and cognitive science is the social effects of belief in high gods. Belief in high gods is both hypothesized to catalyze a cognitive punishment-avoidance mechanism at the level of individual minds, and a group cultural evolutionary mechanism that amplifies in-group cooperation. Recent research into non-Western contexts not only indicates a multiplicity of supernatur…
Epistemology (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Archaeology (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · China (2 obras) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 obras) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (2 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Literature (2 obras)