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Bots and beasts :what makes machines, animals, and people smart?
"An honest attempt to compare and analyze the intelligence of humans, animals, and computers by an eminent cognitive scientist and long-time Press author"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365898
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The brain abstracted :simplification in the history and philosophy of neurosc…
"An opinionated history of neuroscience, which argues that--due to the brain's complexity--neuroscientific theories have only captured partial truths, and therefore "neurophilosophy" is unlikely to be achieved"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378628
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Intrusive thinking :from molecules to free will
"This volume explores the neurological and behavioral mechanisms and processes involved in intrusive thinking and suggests avenues for future clinically relevant research"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363666
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) :illustrations.
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Reason and less :pursuing food, sex, and politics
"New theoretical model of human reasoning proposed by a leading researcher in the cognitive neurosciences. Explains why people are never fully rational in their decision-making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369702
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Who you are :the science of connectedness
Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your assumptions about who you are. Who are you Are you just a brain A brain and a body All the things you have done and the friends you have made Many of us assume that who we really are is something deep inside us, an inner sanctuary that contains our true selves. In Who You Are , Michael Spivey argues that…
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- 9780262358408
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- 1 online resource (376 pages).
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The scientific attitude :defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscie…
An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians…
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- 9780262352840
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- 1 online resource (296 pages).
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Gyorgy Kepes :undreaming the Bauhaus
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites. Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of Lszlo Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthet…
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- 9780262352994
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- 1 online resource (480 pages) :illustrations
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How history gets things wrong :the neuroscience of our addiction to stories
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong . Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or i…
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- 9780262348416
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- 1 online resource (289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates) :illustrations (some color), maps
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We are all monsters :how deviant organisms came to define us
"How the idea of monstrosity, as "other" in critical research, was central to nineteenth-century scientific understandings of "natural" or "normal" biology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372473
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Data feminism
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask…
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- 9780262358521
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- 1 online resource (328 pages).
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