Essays about: "experimental philosophy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words experimental philosophy.

1. 1. A System for Affective Touch in Humanoid and Social Robotics

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

   Author : Martin Gunnar Karlsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Humanoid robotics; social robotics; cognitive robotics; affective touch; touch types; machine learning; emotional repsonse; colour expression; colour and emotion; HRI; human-robot-interaction; tactile interaction; social interaction; robotics; somatosensory system; artificial neural network; ANN; support vector machine; SVM; communication; cognition; somatosensation; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : A system for affective touch has been constructed, in a study of humanoid and social robotics. The system detects, processes and analyses signals from touch, identifies touch types, and provides a corresponding emotional response and expression. READ MORE

3. 2. A topic model-based approach for ontology extension in the computational materials science domain

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

   Author : Tong Zhang; [2020]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : With the continuous development and progress of human society, the demand for advanced materials in all walks of life is increasing day by day. No matter in the agrarian age or the information age, human beings have always been tireless in the study of materials science, and the field of computational materials science has been the exploration of computational methods in materials science. READ MORE

4. 3. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Wiktor Hansson; [2019]
   Keywords : Posthuman; Fashion; Anthropocene; Intra-Relationality; Rick Owens; Avant-Garde; Deleuze; Queer; MACA; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. READ MORE

5. 4. The Secret Ingredients to Moral Philosophy: Blood, Sweat, and Tears : On bad enough worst-case scenarios in experimental approximations of John Rawls' Original Position

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Isa Lappalainen; [2019]
   Keywords : Distributive Justice; Maximin; John Rawls; Original Position; Veil of Ignorance; Justice; Experiment; Vietnam Lottery; Stoker; Erikson; Frohlich; Oppenheimer;

   Abstract : This paper approximates the study of a natural experiment to John Rawls’ thought experiment ‘the original position’ (OP). It argues that laboratory experiments have been unsuccessful in making legitimate approximations of the OP because of their inability to present convincing worst-case scenarios. READ MORE

6. 5. Country of Origin within the consumers' decision-making process

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi; Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

   Author : Benedikt Schneller; Jake James Swanson; [2018]
   Keywords : country of origin; decision-making process; high involvement products; information cues; perception.;

   Abstract : Background Country of origin (COO) has developed over the years and so has the definition, from the manufacturing COO and has now developed more into the COO of the brand. This development has led to a gap in research surrounding COO effects in combination with the decision-making process. READ MORE