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Infinity and perspective
A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world.Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed …
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- 9780262274999
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- 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) : illustrations
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- 100 HAR i
Interface strategies : optimal and costly computation
Taking Chomsky's hypothesis of optimal design as a starting point, repair strategies based on computing reference-sets apply in restricted areas of the interface-quantifier scope, focus, anaphora and implicatures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282277
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- 1 online resource (x, 340 pages) : illustrations.
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- 150 REI i
The interpretation of visual motion
"This book uses the methodology of artificial intelligence to investigate the phenomena of visual motion perception: how the visual system constructs descriptions of the environment in terms of objects, their three-dimensional shape, and their motion through space, on the basis of the changing image that reaches the eye. The author has analyzed the computations performed in the course of visual…
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- 9780262257121
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- 1 online resource (229 pages) :illustrations.
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- 150 ULL i
Interpreting minds
Unlike most current researchers in philosophy and psychology, who view interpretation as a way to understand the minds and behavior of others, Radu J. Bogdan sets out to establish a new evolutionary and practical view of interpretation. According to Bogdan, the ability to interpret others' mental states has evolved under communal, political, and epistemic pressures to enable us to cope with the…
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- 0262268892
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- 1 online resource (318 pages).
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- 150 BOG i
An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Volume 1 : Language
An Invitation to Cognitive Science provides a point of entry into the vast realm of cognitive science, offering selected examples of issues and theories from many of its subfields. All of the volumes in the second edition contain substantially revised and as well as entirely new chapters. Rather than surveying theories and data in the manner characteristic of many introductory textbooks in t…
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- 9780262273916
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- 153 INV
An invitation to cognitive science Volume 2 : Visual Cognition
An Invitation to Cognitive Science provides a point of entry into the vast realm of cognitive science, offering selected examples of issues and theories from many of its subfields. All of the volumes in the second edition contain substantially revised and as well as entirely new chapters.Rather than surveying theories and data in the manner characteristic of many introductory textbooks in the f…
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- Edisi kedua
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- 0585053758
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- 1 online resource : illustrations
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- 153 INV
Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious
In the 20th century, the role of the unconscious in Kant`s philosophy has been in great part neglected by Kant scholars. Nevertheless, the unconscious, the other of consciousness, is a key problem of the critical philosophy. The purpose of the volume is to fill a substantial gap in Kant research and to offer a complete survey of the topic in different areas of research, such as history of philo…
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- 9783110204032
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- 330 halaman
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- 100 KAN
The Politics of Slavery
Looking at scholarship on both ‘old’ and ‘new’ slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of ‘new slavery’ discourse.
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- 9781474401142
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- 240 halaman
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- 100 BRA p
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred – independently it seems - in both India and Greece, but not in the vast…
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- 9781474411004
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- 320
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- 100 UNI
Essays on Plato’s Epistemology
Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato's Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato's philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato's philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thou…
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- 9789462700598
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- 336 halaman
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- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1
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- 100 TRA e
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