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Scientific discovery :computational explorations of the creative processes
Includes indexes.Pat Langley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Herbert Simon is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, and Philosophy at Carnegie-Mellon University. Gary L. Bradshaw is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Science at the Uni…
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- 9780262316002
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- 1 online resource (357 pages)
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Science serialized :representation of the sciences in nineteenth-century peri…
Essays examining the ways in which the Victorian periodical press presented the scientific developments of the time to general and specialized audiences.Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for a growing market of eager readers. The Victorian periodical press became an important medium for t…
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- 9780262269827
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- 1 online resource (vi, 358 pages) :illustrations.
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The rise of political economy as a science :methodology and the classical eco…
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- 0585025568
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 471 pages)
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Requiem for communism
The first survey of the recent requiems for communism by European writers and artists.In Requiem for Communism Charity Scribner examines the politics of memory in postindustrial literature and art. Writers and artists from Europe's second world have responded to the last socialist crisis with works that range from sober description to melancholic fixation. This book is the first survey of this …
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- 9780262283335
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- 1 online resource (xii, 245 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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Rediscovering empathy :agency, folk psychology, and the human sciences
"A Bradford book."Empathy as epistemically central for our folk psychological understanding of other minds; a rehabilitation of the empathy thesis in light of contemporary philosophy of mind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284530
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- 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
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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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Reflections on water :new approaches to transboundary conflicts and cooperation
This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with water must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as product, property, and commodity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268660
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Semantics, tense, and time :an essay in the metaphysics of natural language
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- 0585101175
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Rhyme and reason :an introduction to minimalist syntax
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- 9780262285377
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- 1 online resource (xlii, 669 pages) :illustrations
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