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The rationality of emotion
In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the dead…
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- 0585325006
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- 1 online resource (xix, 373 pages) :illustrations
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Explorations in parallel distributed processing :a handbook of models, progra…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262291279
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- 1 online resource (ix, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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LISP 1.5 programmer's manual :the Computation Center and Research Laboratory …
Includes index.The manual describes LISP, a formal mathematical language. LISP differs from most programming languages in three important ways. The first way is in the nature of the data.The LISP language is designed primarily for symbolic data processing used for symbolic calculations in differential and integral calculus, electrical circuit theory, mathematical logic, game playing, and other …
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- 9780262287722
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- 1 online resource (vi, 106 pages)
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PVM--parallel virtual machine :a users' guide and tutorial for networked para…
Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their high-performance computing resources.Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want …
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- 0585309604
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) :illustrations.
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Rationality and logic
"A Bradford book."An argument that logic is intrinsically psychological and human psychology is intrinsically logical, and that the connection between human rationality and logic is both constitutive and mutual.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274852
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 316 pages)
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The psychology of proof :deductive reasoning in human thinking
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- 9780262282413
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 449 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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Radioactive waste disposal at sea :public ideas, transnational policy entrepr…
Most studies of environmental regimes focus on the use of power, the pursuit of rational self-interest, and the influence of scientific knowledge. Lasse Ringius focuses instead on the influence of public ideas and policy entrepreneurs. He shows how transnational coalitions of policy entrepreneurs can build environmental regimes and how global environmental nongovernmental organizations can act …
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- 9780262282406
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- 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) :illustrations.
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Race in the making :cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human…
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- 9780262275415
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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Qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty
In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with abstractions such as interval values and information about how values change. The author does not invent c…
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- 9780262256773
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 506 pages) :illustrations.
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