Cycles of Contingency

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• The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences.... Lees meer

A Mark of the Mental

Karen Neander

• Hardcover | Engels | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psycholog
• Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation. In A ... Lees meer

From Signal to Symbol

Ronald Planer, Kim Sterelny

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• A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends. In From Signal to Symbol , Ronald Planer and Kim ... Lees meer

Becoming Human

Jennifer Greenwood

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• A novel, wide-ranging, and comprehensive account of how human emotionality develops, proposing a process in which "nature" and "nurture" are integrate... Lees meer

The Extended Mind

• Paperback | Engels | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psycholog
• Leading scholars respond to the famous proposition by Andy Clark and David Chalmers that cognition and mind are not located exclusively in the head. W... Lees meer

Mental Time Travel

Kourken Michaelian

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• Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past. In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds o... Lees meer

Investigating the Psychological World

Brian D Haig

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• A broad theory of research methodology for psychology and the behavioral sciences that offers a coherent treatment of a range of behavioral research m... Lees meer

The Measure of Madness

Philip Gerrans

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• Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experience... Lees meer

Yuck!

Daniel Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psycholog
• An exploration of the character and evolution of disgust and the role this emotion plays in our social and moral lives. People can be disgusted by the... Lees meer

Perplexities of Consciousness

Eric Schwitzgebel

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• A philosopher argues that we know little about our own inner lives. Do you dream in color? If you answer Yes, how can you be sure? Before you recount ... Lees meer

Coherence in Thought and Action

Paul Thagard

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• This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling in... Lees meer

The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature

Scott Atran, Douglas L Medin

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• An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world... Lees meer

Color Ontology and Color Science

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• Leading philosophers and scientists consider what conclusions about color can be drawn when the latest analytic tools are applied to the most sophisti... Lees meer

Beyond Versus

James Tabery

• Hardcover | Engels | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psycholog
• Why the "nature versus nurture" debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture. If ... Lees meer

Evolution in Four Dimensions, Revised Edition

Eva Jablonka, Marion J Lamb

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• A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. This new edition of the wid... Lees meer

Humanity's End

Nicholas Agar

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• An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives. Proposals to make us s... Lees meer

What's Left of Human Nature?

Maria Kronfeldner

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• A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Human nature has ... Lees meer

The Evolution of Morality

Richard Joyce

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• Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by en... Lees meer

The New Phrenology

William R Uttal

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• William Uttal is concerned that in an effort to prove itself a hard science, psychology may have thrown away one of its most important methodological ... Lees meer

The Mind Incarnate

Lawrence A Shapiro

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• How are the mind and body harnessed together? In The Mind Incarnate , Lawrence Shapiro addresses this question by testing two widely accepted hypothes... Lees meer

Rock, Bone, and Ruin

Adrian Currie

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• An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of "methodologically omnivorous" geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncove... Lees meer