It is often claimed that tools are embodied by their user, but whether the brain actually repurposes its body-based computations to perform similar tasks with tools is not known. A fundamental computation for localizing touch on the body is trilateration. Here, the location of touch on a limb is computed by integrating estimates of the distance bet...
Published in Physics Education
This article provides an overview of some tentative ideas relating to Planck scale physics at a level suitable for advanced high school students, beginning undergraduate students, and teachers. After discussing the ratio of the electric and gravitational forces, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is combined with Einstein’s theory of special relati...
This work aims at the conceptual and ontological modeling of the abstract spatial relations in heterogeneous cultural heritage data. This work focuses on built heritage, studying the case of Notre-Dame de Paris. The spatial information is a transversal component across the metadata and paradata collection in the datasets about Notre-Dame. The integ...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Cette recherche questionne la forme de créativité alternative qui s’élabore au sein d’un fablab, en l’abordant comme « espace potentiel ». Un fablab est étudié à l’aide d’une observation ethnographique d’une durée d’un an. Il se révèle non seulement comme un espace de création et de fabrication, mais comme l’espace potentiel d’un désillusionnement ...
Published in Journal of Transcendental Philosophy
In these comments, I share some remarks concerning two main points lying at the core of Gava’s book Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics: Gava’s reconstruction and account of a transcendental deduction, its relation to a metaphysical deduction, and more specifically his reading of the B-Deduction. I will discuss Gava’s argum...
Published in The British journal of social psychology
This study aims at casting light on the ways in which spatial aspects of mobility and belonging serve as social-psychological discursive resources used by Intra-European Greek immigrants in order to account for integration. For the purposes of the study, 17 virtual interviews with Greek migrants in European cities were analysed. Interview discussio...
This paper examines the cycle of a hydraulic infrastructure producing an unequal state, using space, every flood year, for what seems like perpetuity. Instead of theorising “elite capture” of the state, as a significant factor in producing inequality in postcolonial states the argument being advanced here is purposefully different. It argues that ...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction During and since the Covid-19 pandemic there has been an intensified integration of digital technologies into the everyday lives of older people. We do, however, know little about the ways in which older people incorporate digital technologies and communications into their daily lives and their own meanings, embodiment and experiences ...
Published in Health (London, England : 1997)
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Israel established a number of 'corona hotels' - hybrid spaces that were neither fully treatment-oriented nor fully incarcerational, in which people known or suspected to be infected with the coronavirus were confined, sometimes for prolonged and indefinite periods. This paper describes the experience o...
