Foundations for a Cognitive Biology. Understanding cognition has important implications for individual and social wellbeing and thus for the nation's economic health. Until the many disciplines concerned with cognition can effectively integrate their disparate findings, public investment in cognitive research will not yield benefits to its potential. The project aims to produce a coherent model of cognition that will facilitate new cross-disciplinary approaches to research, thereby improving Aus ....Foundations for a Cognitive Biology. Understanding cognition has important implications for individual and social wellbeing and thus for the nation's economic health. Until the many disciplines concerned with cognition can effectively integrate their disparate findings, public investment in cognitive research will not yield benefits to its potential. The project aims to produce a coherent model of cognition that will facilitate new cross-disciplinary approaches to research, thereby improving Australia's means of promoting and maintaining healthy cognitive function and treating cognitive dysfunction.Read moreRead less
Spacetime: its metaphysical type, its reality, its methodological role in philosophy. Australian philosophy has a high standing both among academic disciplines in this country and internationally. Studies in metaphysics are at its core. The tradition of excellent Australian work in the area of space and time, beginning with Samuel Alexanders's Space Time and Deity,1920, has lapsed somewhat and needs to be revitalised and extended in this century. This project builds on that tradition and extends ....Spacetime: its metaphysical type, its reality, its methodological role in philosophy. Australian philosophy has a high standing both among academic disciplines in this country and internationally. Studies in metaphysics are at its core. The tradition of excellent Australian work in the area of space and time, beginning with Samuel Alexanders's Space Time and Deity,1920, has lapsed somewhat and needs to be revitalised and extended in this century. This project builds on that tradition and extends it both in the direction of the philosophy of science of space and time, of pure metaphysics and its methodology.Read moreRead less