PPT-CULTURAL UNIVERSALS

A way to compare cultures across time and around the world 10 Cultural Universals 15 Theme which indicate what is valued in a society what the peoples code of ethics is what symbols represent their ideas eg Statue of Liberty in the USA. Quine On What There Is. The Problem of Ontology: What is there?. physical objects?. fictional characters?. numbers?. ideas?. colors?. God?. The Present King of France?. Pegasus?. The Back-Story: Russell’s Theory of Descriptions. Immanent universals, characterized by being spatiotemporal, are sometimes called ‘Aristotelian’; the distinction here is with ‘Platonic’ or ‘transcendent’ universals, wh W. v. O. Quine. Two Philosophical Problems. The Problem of Identity-Through-Time: Endurantism (3d-ism) or Perdurantism (4d-ism). Endurantism: things are 3-dimensional and endure through change. Perdurantism: things are 4-dimensional and have temporal parts. Change is a matter of having temporal parts that are different in character.. J. Blackmon. Platonic Forms. Platonic Forms. The Problem. We encounter particular instances of justice, but how do we come to know justice?. We encounter particular triangles, but how do we come to know about . and the quest for . Translation Universals. . UCCTS. . 29.07. 2010. Anna Mauranen. Search for Translation Universals. Characteristics that translations generally have. began in the early / mid -1990s. universals . Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press. 1-26, 44-63 2. Greenberg, Joseph Harold. (1974) Language typology. The Hague: Mouton. 50-56 how to identify the Theories of first language acquisition. We are not born speaking! . Language must be acquired.. Learning vs. acquisition. If we think of all that is entailed in knowing a language, it seems quite a challenge.. Let’s create a culture together!!. Day 1....Personal Creation of a Culture. Today we begin the DIG project. As a class we will create from scratch, a culture all our own. As we learned any culture can be examined with the 10 Cultural Universals. Peter J. Richerson. With thanks to Robert Boyd. Talk to Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Cooperation and Human Systems Design, March 26, 2009. Cultural Evolution Is Darwinian: Culture is a population level process. Second Language Acquisition . (. Eckman. , 2012: 485-494). The goal of . SLA theory: . to . explain the development of linguistic competence in . L2 learner . Linguistic . approaches . to SLA . tries to explain the growth of L2 . Antonio E. Puente. University of North Carolina Wilmington. Moscow International Congress . 110. th. Anniversary of Alexander Romanovich Luria’s Birthday. 11.30.12. Acknowledgements. Spain. Universidad de Granada; Miguel Perez Garcia, Raquel Vilar Lopez, Ahmed Fasfous (and their laboratory). World's . first . Arabic speaking robot, named after the famous polymath Avicenna. Created . at the . Interactive Robots and Media Lab of the United Arab Emirates University. . Like several other robots, . What are your first impressions of this woman? (be honest). What symbols are present in this picture?. What are her values?. Why is she dressed the way she is?. What groups could she be fighting?. What are your first impressions of this woman? (be honest). Aristotelian realism vs. Kantian constructivism. Two grand metaphysical theories. 20th-century analytic metaphysics dominated by a third grand metaphysical theory, a theory based on advances in predicate logic.