Natural Ethical Facts

William D. Casebeer

• Hardcover | A Bradford Book
• An original and comprehensive theory of a naturalized ethic using conceptual tools from cognitive science and evolutionary biology. Lees meer

Body Language

Mark (Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami) Rowlands

• Hardcover | A Bradford Book
• An argument that activity provides a useful template for thinking about representation and that deeds are themselves representational: our representin... Lees meer

Darwinism Evolving

David J. Depew, Bruce H. Weber

• Paperback | A Bradford Book
• Darwinism Evolving examines the Darwinian research tradition in evolutionary biology from its inception to its turbulent present, arguing that recent ... Lees meer

Symmetry, Causality, Mind

Michael Leyton

• Paperback | A Bradford Book
• In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover t... Lees meer

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15

• Hardcover | A Bradford Book
• Proceedings of the 2002 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference. Lees meer

Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground

Hilary (University Of Massachusetts) Kornblith

• Paperback | A Bradford Book
• This work presents an account of inductive inference that addresses both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. The author argues that inductiv... Lees meer

The Units of Evolution

• Hardcover | A Bradford Book
• The Units of Evolution is the first anthology devoted solely to the nature of species, one of the most hotly debated issues in biology and the philoso... Lees meer

Artificial Intelligence

John Haugeland

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• "Machines who think--how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists, defending their dwindling turf. "Artificial Intelligence--it's here and ab... Lees meer

Rediscovering Empathy

Karsten Stueber

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• Empathy as epistemically central for our folk psychological understanding of other minds; a rehabilitation of the empathy thesis in light of contempor... Lees meer

Social Empiricism

Miriam Solomon

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• For the last forty years, two claims have been at the core of disputes about scientific change: that scientists reason rationally and that science is ... Lees meer

Explaining Behavior

Fred Dretske

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• Why do human beings move? In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the caus... Lees meer

Exploring Science

David Klahr

• Paperback | A Bradford Book
• David Klahr suggests that we now know enough about cognition--and hence about everyday thinking--to advance our understanding of scientific thinking. Lees meer

The Cognitive Animal

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors inc... Lees meer

A History of Modern Experimental Psychology

George Mandler

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• The evolution of cognitive psychology, traced from the beginnings of a rigorous experimental psychology at the end of the nineteenth century to the "c... Lees meer

How to Set Parameters

David W Lightfoot

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• Over the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters defined in Universal ... Lees meer

The Design of Animal Communication

• Paperback | A Bradford Book
• Based on the approach laid out in the 1950s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives o... Lees meer

The Rational Imagination

Ruth M J Byrne

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the ... Lees meer

The Origins of Music

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical b... Lees meer

Psychological Agency

• Hardcover | Engels | A Bradford Book
• A multidisciplinary exploration of agency as a central psychological phenomenon based on the affective, embodied, and relational processing of human e... Lees meer

Long-Term Potentiation

• Hardcover | A Bradford Book
• This third volume brings together data and hypotheses by neuroscientists regarding the mechanisms of long term potentiation and depression. The book c... Lees meer

Inquiry

Robert C Stalnaker

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• The abstract structure of inquiry - the process of acquiring and changing beliefs about the world - is the focus of this book which takes the position... Lees meer

The Mathematics of Marriage

John M Gottman, James D Murray, Catherine C Swanson

• Paperback | Engels | A Bradford Book
• Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical understanding of the processes related to marital stability and dissolution, it is di... Lees meer

Vision Science

Stephen E Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | A Bradford Book
• This book revolutionizes how vision can be taught to undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive science, psychology, and optometry. It is the fi... Lees meer

Plasticity of Development

• Hardcover | A Bradford Book
• Plasticity of Development brings together innovative, current research on the nature/nurture issue, and presents new comparative approaches to epigene... Lees meer