Stuart Shanker

Self-Reg and Reframing

by Casey Burgess, Ph.D. and Stuart Shanker

Reframed: The Journal of Self-Reg, 2017

Shanker Self-Reg® always begins with reframing. The concept of reframing is grounded in the work ... more Shanker Self-Reg® always begins with reframing. The concept of reframing is grounded in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Reframing constitutes an “aspect-shift” in how we see and categorize the world around us. Perceptual, experiential and creative components are all involved. The current paper explores each of these strands and how they are woven together. It then discusses how reframing applies, not only to behaviour, thought and emotion, but even to scientific research and theories.

Which came first: Infants learning language or motherese?

by Heather Bortfeld, Barbara Davis, and Stuart Shanker

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Jan 1, 2004

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Wittgenstein versus Turing on the Nature of Church's Thesis in Special Issue on Church's Thesis

Notre Dame journal of formal logic, 1987

... Langue / Language. Anglais Editeur / Publisher. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, I... more

Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI

First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in t... more

The emergence of a new paradigm in ape language research: Beyond interactionism

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2002

In recent years we have seen a dramatic shift, in several different areas of communication studie... more In recent years we have seen a dramatic shift, in several different areas of communication studies, from an information-theoretic to a dynamic systems paradigm. In an information processing system, communication, whether between cells, mammals, apes, or humans, is said to occur when one organism encodes information into a signal that is transmitted to another organism that decodes the signal. In a dynamic system, all of the elements are continuously interacting with and changing in respect to one another, and an aggregate pattern emerges from this mutual co-action. Whereas the information-processing paradigm looks at communication as a linear, binary sequence of events, the dynamic systems paradigm looks at the relation between behaviors and how the whole configuration changes over time. One of the most dramatic examples of the significance of shifting from an information processing to a dynamic systems paradigm can be found in the debate over the interpretation of recent advances in ape language research (ALR). To some extent, many of the early ALR studies reinforced the stereotype that animal communication is functional and stimulus bound, precisely because they were based on an information-processing paradigm that promoted a static model of communicative development. But Savage-Rumbaugh&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s recent results with bonobos has introduced an entirely new dimension into this debate. Shifting the terms of the discussion from an information-processing to a dynamic systems paradigm not only highlights the striking differences between Savage-Rumbaugh&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s research and earlier ALR studies, but further, it sheds illuminating light on the factors that underpin the development of communication skills in great apes and humans, and the relationship between communicative development and the development of language.

Godel's theorem in focus

Beginning with a short biography of Kurt Gödel, Gödel's Theorem in Focus provides the reader ... more

Wittgenstein versus Turing on the nature of Church's thesis

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1987

... Langue / Language. Anglais Editeur / Publisher. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, I... more

Wittgenstein and the Turning Point in the Philosophy of Mathematics

for Wittgenstein was the discovery of a notation in terms of which this can be expressed. He thin... more

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The emergence of a new paradigm in ape language research

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2002

In recent years we have seen a dramatic shift, in several different areas of communication studie... more In recent years we have seen a dramatic shift, in several different areas of communication studies, from an information-theoretic to a dynamic systems paradigm. In an information processing system, communication, whether between cells, mammals, apes, or humans, is said to occur when one organism encodes information into a signal that is transmitted to another organism that decodes the signal. In a dynamic system, all of the elements are continuously interacting with and changing in respect to one another, and an aggregate pattern emerges from this mutual co-action. Whereas the information-processing paradigm looks at communication as a linear, binary sequence of events, the dynamic systems paradigm looks at the relation between behaviors and how the whole configuration changes over time. One of the most dramatic examples of the significance of shifting from an information processing to a dynamic systems paradigm can be found in the debate over the interpretation of recent advances in ape language research (ALR). To some extent, many of the early ALR studies reinforced the stereotype that animal communication is functional and stimulus bound, precisely because they were based on an information-processing paradigm that promoted a static model of communicative development. But Savage-Rumbaugh&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s recent results with bonobos has introduced an entirely new dimension into this debate. Shifting the terms of the discussion from an information-processing to a dynamic systems paradigm not only highlights the striking differences between Savage-Rumbaugh&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s research and earlier ALR studies, but further, it sheds illuminating light on the factors that underpin the development of communication skills in great apes and humans, and the relationship between communicative development and the development of language.

The first idea: How symbols, language, and intelligence evolved from our primate ancestors to modern humans

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G篓odel''s Theorem in Focus

Beginning with a short biography of Kurt Gödel, Gödel's Theorem in Focus provides the reader ... more

Apes, language, and the human mind

... Stuart Shanker is the obvious source of chapter 2, as Talbot Taylor of chapter 3, and Savage-... more

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