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Abstract This lecture, based on a forthcoming book entitled Why Britain? A New View of the Industrial Revolution will discuss the various factors that made Britain into the workshop of the world and the cradle of technological progress and economic …

Abstract This session explores the question of revolution, going beyond a strictly political reading to consider its cultural and intellectual dimensions. Revolution is seen here not just as an upheaval of legal or institutional structures, but as a more …

Abstract From Cicero to the jurists of the Empire, this lesson explores the idea of Rome as " common homeland " and its legal and political implications. Through the treatise On Laws (De Legibus ), we discover the tension between the small homeland, i.e. …

Abstract Nucleophilic substitution on an sp³ carbon center is one of the most fundamental and widely used transformations in organic chemistry. While the stereochemical outcome of a SN2 reaction is well known - it takes place with configuration …

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Documents and media Download support Abstract Soil is a living, dynamic entity whose functional integrity is being compromised by increasing anthropogenic pressures, whether arising from agricultural intensification or urban artificialization, for …

Documents and media Download support Abstract Soil is our common heritage, which must be protected and conserved in view of the vital functions it performs. While we are all familiar with its nutritional functions, its dynamics and the biodiversity it …

Chair: Victor Tamburini Hannah Steinicke Hannah Steinicke is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Mind, Brain and Behavior at Justus-Liebig University Gießen in Germany. Recently, she worked on the mental representation of sets in infants in …

Chair: Victor Tamburini Abstract Children become able to process verbal identity statements as they learn to attribute false beliefs. The mental files explanation points to the need for linked indexed files for solving both tasks, which children achieve …

Chair: Michael Murez Abstract Scene constructions, or more broadly, episodic simulations, are internal representations of states, relations, and events in the spatial navigational system of the brain. These constructions serve various purposes, including …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract I propose that communication with the indexical pronoun 'I' requires coordination on a familiar discourse referent, just like communication with anaphoric (or deictic) use of 'she'. This proposal improves on a contrasting …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract Discourse referents are "mental files" insofar as they are mental representations that function like variables: they architecturally separate addresses from contents. I argue for a construal of discourse referents in which …

Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract In previous work, I argue that discourse referents-devices for tracking objects under discussion in discourse-are best understood as mental files: vehicles for tracking the same object in cognition independently of any …

Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract MSDRT (Mental State Discourse Representation Theory) has developed a number of different Types of Entity Representations (its term for what is referred to by others as Mental Files). The different ER Types are for …

Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract Two ideas characterize many discussions of discourse files or discourse referents. One is that they are only temporary, serving as mental proxies for individuals only across some segment of discourse. Dissociations …