Addiction and responsibility

This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Distinguished contributors dicuss questions concerning whether or not we are responsible for our own addictions and what responsibilities others have to help.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Enaction: Toward a new paradigm for cognitive science

"A Bradford book.""Based on an International CNRS Summer School organized by the Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (ARC), held from 29 May to 03 June 2006, Ile d'Ol?eron, France"--Text.This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computation…

Dynamics in action: Intentional behavior as a complex system

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No Medium

In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object. Dworkin considers works pred…

Word and Object

A new edition of Quine's most important work.Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as …

Philosophy of helpfullness volume 2

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Reference and Referring

Original essays on reference and referring by leading scholars that combine breadth of coverage with thematic unity. These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts current trends in reference and referring in terms of an ongoing dialogue between Fregean and Ru…

Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature

A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of ""nature"" altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The extended mind

Leading scholars respond to the famous proposition by Andy Clark & David Chalmers that cognition & mind are not located exclusively in the head.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics

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