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The Cybernetics Group
This is the engaging story of a moment of transformation in the human sciences, a detailed account of a remarkable group of people who met regularly from 1946 to 1953 to explore the possibility of using scientific ideas that had emerged in the war years (cybernetics, information theory, computer theory) as a basis for interdisciplinary alliances. The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics, as they cam…
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The connectives
A comprehensive investigation of the sentence connectives--and, or, if, not--with special attention to their logical properties.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Making Space: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning
Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information. Until recently three approaches have dominated thinking about spatial development. Followers of Piaget claim that infants are born wit…
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Market Discipline Across Countries and Industries
Leading academics and policymakers address the theory of market discipline and consider evidence across different industries and countries.The effectiveness of market discipline--the strong built-in incentives that encourage banks and financial systems to operate soundly and efficiently--commands much attention today, particularly in light of recent accounting scandals. As government discipline…
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Topology of violence
Originally published as Topologie der Gewalt. Berlin : Matthes & Seitz, 2011.One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.Some things never disappear--violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In…
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Perspectives on Imitation, Volume 1: From Neuroscience to Social Science - Vo…
A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law. Leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings and theories with reviews of…
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Perspectives on imitation :from neuroscience to social science.
A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law.Leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings and theories with reviews of s…
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- 1 online resource (1 volume) :illustrations
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Desire: its role in practical reason and the explanation of action
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Stealth Assessment: Measuring and Supporting Learning in Video Games
An approach to performance-based assessments that embeds assessments in digital games in order to measure how students are progressing toward targeted goals. To succeed in today's interconnected and complex world, workers need to be able to think systemically, creatively, and critically. Equipping K-16 students with these twenty-first-century competencies requires new thinking not only about…
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Efficient cognition :the evolution of representational decision making
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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