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Language, brain, and cognitive development :essays in honor of Jacques Mehler
"A Bradford book.""Short biography of Jacques Mehler": pages [513]-527.Interdisciplinary essays on central issues in cognitive science. In the early 1960s, the bold project of the emerging field of cognition was to put the human mind under the scrutiny of rational inquiry, through the conjoined efforts of philosophy, linguistics, computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Forty years later…
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- 9780262272032
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- 1 online resource (xv, 541 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge in action :logical foundations for specifying and implementing dyna…
Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment …
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- 9780262282314
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge engineering and management :the CommonKADS methodology
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283236
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge-based neurocomputing
Looking at ways to encode prior knowledge and to extract, refine, and revise knowledge within a neurocomputing system.Neurocomputing methods are loosely based on a model of the brain as a network of simple interconnected processing elements corresponding to neurons. These methods derive their power from the collective processing of artificial neurons, the chief advantage being that such systems…
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- 9780262270496
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) :illustrations
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The Kantian legacy in nineteenth-century science
"Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273268
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- 1 online resource (vi, 370 pages) :illustrations.
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Jesuit science and the republic of letters
A reassessment of the Jesuit contributions to the emergence of the scientific worldview.Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was viewed for centuries as an impediment to the development of modern science. The Jesuit educational system was deemed conservative and antithetical to creative thought, while the Order and its members were blamed by Galileo, Descartes, and their disciples for virtuall…
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- 9780262272537
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- 1 online resource (xi, 483 pages) :illustrations.
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Ivory bridges :connecting science and society
A study of two bridges between science and society: governmental science policy and scientists' voluntary public-interest associations. According to a widespread stereotype, scientists occupy an ivory tower, isolated from other parts of society. To some extent this is true, and the resulting freedom to pursue curiosity-driven research has made possible extraordinary scientific advances. The spi…
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- 0585442703
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- 1 online resource (227 pages)
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Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations…
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- 9780262282888
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- 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) :illustrations.
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Isaac Newton's natural philosophy
Newton studies have undergone radical changes in the last half-century as more of his work has been uncovered and more details of his life and intellectual context have come to light. This volume singles out two strands in recent Newton studies: the intellectual background to Newton's scientific thought and both specific and general aspects of his technical science. The essays make new claims c…
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- 9780262269490
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- 1 online resource (xx, 354 pages) :illustrations.
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MediaArtHistories
Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262274256
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- 1 online resource (xii, 475 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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