Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?

Continuing the debate over whether consciousness causes behaviour or plays no functional role in it, leading scholars discuss the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law and public policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

A little book of naval wisdom

IT is held to be in the natural order of things for the British seaman to do rather than to say. For centuries he has been accomplishing mighty tasks without making much fuss about it. That is his habit. We land creatures take his work for granted in much the same way as the minutes of the previous meeting are ' taken as read.' That is our habit

Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environment…

How do international environmental standards come into being? One important way, as Elizabeth DeSombre shows in this book, is through the internationalization of regulations that one or more countries have undertaken domestically. Domestic environmental regulation, DeSombre argues, can create an incentive for environmentalists and industry--previously at odds with each other--to work together t…

A Dynamic systems approach to development: Applications

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A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action

A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action presents a comprehensive and detailed theory of early human development based on the principles of dynamic systems theory. Beginning with their own research in motor, perceptual, and cognitive development, Thelen and Smith raise fundamental questions about prevailing assumptions in the field. They propose a new theory of the …

Dynamics in action: Intentional behavior as a complex system

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The economic effects of constitutions

"The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they call the "missing link" between constitutional systems and economic policy. Taking recent theoretical work as a point of departure, they ask which theoretical findings are supported and which are contradicted by the facts. The results are based on comparisons of political institutions across countries…

Winged victory

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Simple Simon Smith

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The Economics of Risk and Time

This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and un…