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Elbow room :the varieties of free will worth wanting
"A Bradford Book.""In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, 'saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments.' In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting--those that underwrite mora…
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- 9780262332026
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
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Neural control of speech
A comprehensive and unified account of the neural computations underlying speech production, offering a theoretical framework bridging the behavioral and the neurological literatures.In this book, Frank Guenther offers a comprehensive, unified account of the neural computations underlying speech production, with an emphasis on speech motor control rather than linguistic content. Guenther focuse…
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- 9780262336987
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 410 pages) :illustrations
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Technologies of vision :the war between data and images
An investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343336
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- 1 online resource.
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The making of grand Paris :metropolitan urbanism in the twenty-first century
A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris -- the ""Grand Paris"" initiative -- and the building of today's networked global city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262337014
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- 1 online resource (viii, 313 pages).
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What the body commands :the imperative theory of pain
"In What the Body Commands, Colin Klein proposes and defends a novel theory of pain. Klein argues that pains are imperative; they are sensations with a content, and that content is a command to protect the injured part of the body. He terms this view 'imperativism about pain, ' and argues that imperativism can account for two puzzling features of pain: its strong motivating power and its uninfo…
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- 9780262329880
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- 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
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Reordering life :knowledge and control in the genomics revolution
How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338660
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages).
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Updating to remain the same :habitual new media
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual -- when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333771
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- 1 online resource
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The long arm of Moore's law :microelectronics and American science
How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial. Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short…
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- 9780262341400
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- 1 online resource.
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New earth politics :essays from the Anthropocene
Prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new earth, and probe the field's deepest and most enduring questions at a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in complementary pairs, included are - reflections on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities, reflectio…
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- 9780262332132
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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'And' :conjunction reduction redux
In this book, Barry Schein argues that "and" is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. "And" always means "&," across the varied constructions in which it is tokened in natural language. Schein examines the constructions that challenge his thesis, and shows that the objections disappear when these constructions are translated into Eventish, a neo-Davidsonian event…
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- 9780262338059
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 1019 pages) :illustrations.
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