Natural Ethical Facts

William D Casebeer

• Hardcover | Engels | Bradford Book
• In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology an... Lees meer

Probabilistic Linguistics

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• For the past forty years, linguistics has been dominated by the idea that language is categorical and linguistic competence discrete. It has become in... Lees meer

Symmetry, Causality, Mind

Michael Leyton

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• 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

Music and Memory

Robert Snyder

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• This far-ranging book shows how human memory influences the organization of music. The book is divided into two parts. The first part presents basic i... Lees meer

The Self-Organizing Social Mind

John Bolender

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• A proposal that the basic mental models used to structure social interaction result from self-organization in brain activity. In The Self-Organizing S... Lees meer

Genes, Organisms, Populations

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• This anthology collects some of the most important papers on what is believed to be the major force in evolution, natural selection. An issue of great... Lees meer

Metacognition

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• Metacognition offers an up-to-date compendium of major scientific issues involved in metacognition. The twelve original contributions provide a concis... Lees meer

Exploring Science

David Klahr

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• Einstein said that the whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. David Klahr suggests that we now know enough about cog... Lees meer

Metaphor in Context

Josef Stern

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• Josef Stern addresses the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does metaphorical interpretation, in whole... Lees meer

Varieties of Practical Reasoning

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• Practical reasoning is the study of how to figure out what to do. It is of particular importance to ethics. Indeed, new developments in practical reas... Lees meer

The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks

• Hardcover | Engels | Bradford Book
• A new, dramatically updated edition of the classic resource on the constantly evolving fields of brain theory and neural networks. Dramatically updati... Lees meer

Neurocomputing, Volume 1

• Paperback | Engels | Bradford Book | nr. 1
• Researchers will find Neurocomputing an essential guide to the concepts employed in this field that have been taken from disciplines as varied as neur... Lees meer

Time, Tense, and Reference

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• Among the many branches of philosophy, the philosophy of time and the philosophy of language are more intimately interconnected than most, yet their p... Lees meer

Cambrian Intelligence

Rodney A Brooks

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• Until the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and act... Lees meer

The Visual Neurosciences, 2-Vol. Set

• Hardcover | Engels | Bradford Book
• An essential reference book for visual science. Visual science is the model system for neuroscience, its findings relevant to all other areas. This ma... Lees meer

The Dynamic Neuron

John Smythies

• Hardcover | Engels | Bradford Book
• A comprehensive review of current research on synaptic plasticity. The traditional model of synapses as fixed structures has been replaced by a dynami... Lees meer

Using Computers

Raymond S Nickerson

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• Industry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensive introduction to the information technology revolution that is transforming industrial society... Lees meer

High-Level Vision

Shimon Ullman

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• Shimon Ullman focuses on the processes of high-level vision that deal with the interpretation and use of what is seen in the image. In this book, Shim... Lees meer

Sketches of Thought

Vinod Goel

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• Vinod Goel argues that the cognitive computational conception of the world requires our thought processes to be precise, rigid, discrete, and unambigu... Lees meer

Desire

George F Schueler

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• Does action always arise out of desire? G.F. Schueler examines this hotly debated topic in philosophy of action and moral philosophy, arguing that onc... Lees meer

Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science

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• This is the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s. Covering all of the major areas in the d... Lees meer

Neurophilosophy

Patricia S Churchland

• Paperback | Engels | Bradford Book
• "Neurophilosophy" is a rich interdisciplinary study of the prospects for a unified cognitive neurobiology. Contemporary research in the empirical neur... Lees meer

The Revision Theory of Truth

Anil Gupta, Nuel Belnap

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• In this rigorous investigation into the logic of truth Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap explain how the concept of truth works in both ordinary and patholog... Lees meer

Dennett's Philosophy

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• The influential philosopher Daniel Dennett is best known for his distinctive theory of mental content, his elucidation of how the complex components o... Lees meer