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The rational imagination :how people create alternatives to reality
"A Bradford book.""The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that underlie rational thoughts. Research has shown that rational thought is more imagin…
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- 9780262269629
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) :illustrations
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The rapid evaluation of potential fields in particle systems
"Leslie Greengard received his doctorate from Yale University where he is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department. The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems is a 1987 ACM Distinguished Dissertation.""The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems presents a group of algorithms for the computation of the potential and force fields in large-sc…
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- 9780262256254
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- 1 online resource (iv, 90 pages) :illustrations.
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The science of the mind
"A Bradford book."Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter Flanagan develops a neurophilosophical theory of subjective mental life. He brings recent developments in the theory of neuronal group selection and connectionism to bear on the problems of the evolution o…
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- 2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
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- 0585023468
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 424 pages)
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Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science.
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- 9780262287814
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- 1 online resource (872 pages)
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The rediscovery of the mind
"Bradford Books."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315982
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- 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages).
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Reconstructing the cognitive world :the next step
"A Bradford book.""In Reconstructing the Cognitive World, Michael Wheeler argues that we should turn away from the generically Cartesian philosophical foundations of much contemporary cognitive science research and proposes instead a Heideggerian approach. Wheeler begins with an interpretation of Descartes. He defines Cartesian psychology as a conceptual framework of explanatory principles and …
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- 9780262286039
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- 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages)
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The realistic spirit :Wittgenstein, philosophy, and the mind
The realistic spirit, a nonmetaphysical approach to philosophical thought concerned with the character of philosophy itself, informs all of the discussions in these essays by philosopher Cora Diamond. Diamond explains Wittgenstein's notoriously elusive later writings, explores the background to his thought in the work of Frege, and discusses ethics in a way that reflects his influence. Diamond'…
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- 9780262271660
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- 1 online resource (412 pages).
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Seeing double :shared identities in physics, philosophy, and literature
"The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human life: What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is it unique? To what degree can it be shared, and how? To the many philosophical and literary speculations about these topics over time, modern science has added the curious twist of quantum theory, which requires that the elementary particles of whi…
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- 9780262281492
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- 1 online resource (184 pages) :illustrations
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Representation and reality
"A Bradford book."Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book. Putnam argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge…
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- 0585021228
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- 1 online resource (xv, 136 pages).
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Relativism and the foundations of philosophy
"A Bradford book."A defense of the view that philosophical propositions are true in some perspectives and false in others, arguing that the rationalist, intuition-driven method of acquiring basic beliefs favored by analytic philosophy is not epistemically superior to such alternate belief-acquiring methods as religious revelation and the ritual use of hallucinogens. The grand and sweeping claim…
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- 9780262274746
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- 1 online resource (x, 216 pages)
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