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Categorization and Naming in Children: Problems of Induction
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markman explores the fascinating problem of how young children succeed at the task of inducing concepts. Backed by extensive experimental results, she challenges the fundamental assumptions of traditional theories of language acquisition and proposes that a set o…
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- 1 online resource (250 pages) :illustrations.
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Folk psychological narratives The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons
An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of n.
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 402 pages)
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The really hard problem Meaning in a Material World
A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.
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Moral psychology, The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and…
"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
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Do apes read minds? :toward a new folk psychology
An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations. By adulthood, most of us have become experts in human behavior, able to make sense of the myriad behaviors we find in environments ranging from the family home to the local mall and beyond. In philosophy of mind, our unders…
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Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior
A Bradford book."The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Elster's study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavior, ultimately revealing how cognition, choice, and rationality are undermined by the physical processes that underlie strong emotions and cravings. This book will be of particular in…
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A Theory of Content and Other Essays
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- 9780262287999
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- 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages)
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Through the Rearview Mirror: Historical Reflections on Psychology
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278850
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- 1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) :illustrations
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Timing of Behavior: Neural, Psychological, and Computational Perspectives
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- 1 online resource (xii, 384 pages) :illustrations
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Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy
"A Bradford book."Andrea diSessa's career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has been driven by one important question: can education -- in particular, science education -- be transformed by the computer so that children can learn more, learn more easily at an earlier age, and learn with pleasure and commitment? This book is diSessa's informed and passionate affirmative answer to that ques…
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