Publications associées à Philosophy of social science

Un modèle pluraliste d’éducation numérique, l’expérience du canton de Vaud en Suisse

Francesco Mondada, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Dominique Georges Léon Boullier, Sonia Agrebi, Nicolas Badoux, Gregory Vivian Raymond Liegeois

Le canton de Vaud en Suisse a lancé depuis 2019 un nouveau format d’éducation numérique pour tous les niveaux, de la maternelle au gymnase, qui associe étroitement informatique et sciences sociales. Dans ce compte-rendu d’expérience, nous présentons à la f ...

2023

Focus on People: Five Qestions from Human-Centered Computing

Daniel Gatica-Perez

A substantial body of research in multimodal interaction has studied how people naturally interact -face-to-face and through machinesand developed technology to analyze, support, and extend such forms of interaction. The talk will share personal experience ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Introducing the architectural values of the Common

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

The recent development of the “Common” as an interdisciplinary field of reflection seems to show some restraint with respect to the architectural culture that precedes it. This proposal invites to explore the intensities and the reasons for such a resistan ...

University of Huddersfield2019

Medialab stories: how to align actor network theory and digital methods

Dominique Georges Léon Boullier

The history of laboratories may become controversial in social sciences. In this paper, the story of Sciences Po Médialab told by Venturini et al. is discussed and completed by demonstrating the incoherence in the choice of digital methods at the Médialab ...

2018

Espaces épistémiques : pour une science du social

Jacques Lévy

Dans l'ensemble la production de connaissances sur le monde social souffre, plutôt qu'elle ne profite, du découpage en disciplines largement étanches les unes aux autres. L'interdisciplinarité (entre domaines) et la transdisciplinarité (entre registres) ap ...

2017

Putting low-level vision into global context: Why vision cannot be reduced to basic circuits

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell

To cope with the complexity of vision, most models in neuroscience and computer vision are of hierarchical and feedforward nature. Low-level vision, such as edge and motion detection, is explained by basic low-level neural circuits, whose outputs serve as ...

Elsevier2016

On ne plaisante pas avec l’humour. Le mouvement de société du 11 janvier

Jacques Lévy

The deadly attack against Charlie Hebdo on 7th January 2015 in Paris has resulted in an immense protest and solidarity movement. This event deserves the full attention of researchers in social sciences. Beyond apparent contradictions, the movement displays ...

Association Espaces Temps2015

Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac

Working in groups and managing projects are important professional skills for engineers, and there is a growing demand to teach and assess such skills. But what should be taught and when? Tuckman’s famous “stages of development of performing groups” provid ...

2015

Science + Space + Society : Urbanity and the Risk of Methodological Communalism in Social Sciences of Space

Jacques Lévy

During the last decades, geography has lost its epistemological exceptionality, but is this enough? Social sciences are commonly threatened by methodological nationalism and, more generally, by methodological communalism, that is the corruption of a scient ...

2014

Modeling Social-Ecological Feedback Effects in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services in Pasture-Woodlands

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

An effective implementation of payment for environmental services (PES) must allow for complex interactions of coupled social-ecological systems. We present an integrative study of the pasture-woodland landscape of the Swiss Jura Mountains combining method ...

Resilience Alliance2013

Bibliometrics as Weapons of Mass Citation - La bibliométrie comme arme de citation massive

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

The allocation of resources for research is increasingly based on so-called ‘bibliometrics’. Scientists arenow deemed to be successful on the sole condition that their work be abundantly cited. This world-wide trendappears to enjoy support not only by gran ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2010