Inner Experience and Neuroscience

Donald D Price, James J Barrell

• Hardcover | Engels | Bradford Books
• A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the las... Lees meer

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

• Hardcover | Bradford Books
• Papers presented at NIPS, the flagship meeting on neural computation, held in December 2004 in Vancouver. Lees meer

Talking Nets

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• Surprising tales from the scientists who first learned how to use computers to understand the workings of the human brain. Since World War II, a group... Lees meer

Mind and Brain Sciences in the 21st Century

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• The approach of the new millennium encourages people to stop and think about where we have been and where we are going. In these essays, all but one w... Lees meer

Situating Semantics

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• Original commentary on the work of philosopher John Perry by prominent contemporary analytic philosophers, with Perry's detailed and original response... Lees meer

Language in Mind

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• The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong vers... Lees meer

New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge

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• Semantic externalism is the thesis that the contents of some words and thoughts depend in part on properties external to the person who entertains the... Lees meer

Neural Organization

Michael A Arbib, Pa(c)Ter Ardi, P?ter ?Rdi, J?nos Szent?gothai, Alice Szentagothai

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• In Neural Organization, Arbib, Erdi, and Szentagothai integrate structural, functional, and dynamical approaches to the interaction of brain models an... Lees meer

Consciousness Reconsidered

Owen Flanagan

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• Consciousness is neither miraculous nor ultimately mysterious. In this broad, entertaining, and persuasive account Owen Flanagan argues that we are on... Lees meer

Definite Descriptions

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• This reader is intended both to introduce students to the philosophy of language via the theory of descriptions, and to provide scholars in analytic p... Lees meer

Folkbiology

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• The term "folkbiology" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world--how they perceive, categorize, and reason about living kinds... Lees meer

True to Life

Michael P Lynch

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• Why truth is important in our everyday lives. Why does truth matter when politicians so easily sidestep it and intellectuals scorn it as irrelevant? W... Lees meer

Weaving a Lexicon

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• The studies in Weaving a Lexicon make a significant contribution to the growing field of lexical acquisition by considering the multidimensional way i... Lees meer

Ontology of Consciousness

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• Scholars from many different disciplines examine consciousness through the lens of intellectual approaches and cultures ranging from cosmology researc... Lees meer

Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism

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• A new program of philosophical analysis that reconciles a certain account of analysis with philosophical naturalism is applied to a range of philosoph... Lees meer

Without Justification

Jonathan Sutton

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• In the contentious debate among contemporary epistemologists and philosophers regarding justification, there is one consensus: justification is distin... Lees meer

Hot Thought

Paul Thagard

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• Contrary to standard assumptions, reasoning is often an emotional process. Emotions can have good effects, as when a scientist gets excited about a li... Lees meer

Understanding Intelligence

Rolf Pfeifer, Christian Scheier

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• The book includes all the background material required to understand the principles underlying intelligence, as well as enough detailed information on... Lees meer

Attention and Performance XIV

• Hardcover | Bradford Books
• Attention and Performance XIV, provides a broad, historic, and timely synthesis of the empirical and theoretical ideas on which performance theory now... Lees meer

Enaction

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• A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social. This book presents the... Lees meer

Distributed Cognition and the Will

Ross Don

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• Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditional concept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientifi... Lees meer

The Asymmetrical Brain

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• The folk belief that the left brain hemisphere is dominant for language and the right for visuospatial functions is incomplete and even misleading. Re... Lees meer

Cambrian Intelligence

Rodney Allen 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

Imagination and the Meaningful Brain

Arnold H Modell

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• The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meani... Lees meer