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Language and Equilibrium
In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a system of interdependent games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281263
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) :illustrations
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Pragmatism and Reference
Despite a revival of interest in pragmatist philosophy, most work in the analytic philosophy of language ignores insights offered by classical pragmatists & contemporary neopragmatists. This text arues that a pragmatist perspective on reference presents a distinct alternative to the prevailing analytic views on the topic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268882
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- 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
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Furnishing the mind : concepts and their perceptual basis
"A Bradford book."Western philosophy has long been divided between empiricists, who argue that human understanding has its basis in experience, and rationalists, who argue that reason is the source of knowledge. A central issue in the debate is the nature of concepts, the internal representations we use to think about the world. The traditional empiricist thesis that concepts are built up from …
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- 9780262281935
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- 1 online resource (x, 358 pages) :illustrations
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- Representation and Mind series
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- 100 PRI f
Indeterminacy: The Mapped, the Navigable, and the Uncharted
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the concepts of indeterminacy and indeterminability and the distinctions between the two.Formal thinking about certainty/uncertainty gained greater focus in scientific domains with the advent of particle physics and quantum mechanics. Concern with the exact predictability of events under guidance from scientific determinism led to speculation, then acknowledgem…
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- 9780262270359
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- 1 online resource (xv, 383 pages) :illustrations, music
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Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness
Here, Radu Bogdan takes a developmental perspective on consciousness and proposes that children's functional capacity for consciousness is assembled during development out of a variety of ontogenetic adaptations that respond mostly to sociocultural challenges specific to distinct stages of childhood.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289214
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- 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages).
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Predicative Minds: The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking
"A Bradford book.""The predicative mind singles out and represents an item in order to attribute to it a property, a relation, an action, an evaluation; it thinks, and says, of a house that it is big, of a car that it is to the left of the house, of a cat that it is about to jump, of a hypothesis that it is plausible. The capacity to predicate appears to be neither innate nor learned, yet it is…
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- 9780262255240
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- 1 online resource (xix, 156 pages) :illustrations
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George Santayana's marginalia: A critical selection
A selection of Santayana's notes in the margins of other authors' works that sheds light on his thought, art, and life. In his essay "Imagination," George Santayana writes, "There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margins, may be more interesting than the text." Santayana himself was an inveterate maker of notes in the margins of his books, …
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- 9780262298421
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- 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)).
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George Santayana's marginalia: A critical selection
A selection of Santayana's notes in the margins of other authors' works that sheds light on his thought, art, and life. In his essay "Imagination," George Santayana writes, "There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margins, may be more interesting than the text." Santayana himself was an inveterate maker of notes in the margins of his books, …
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- 9780262298414
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 495 pages).
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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.
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- 9780262295635
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- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) :illustrations.
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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…
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- 9780262289795
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 463 pages) :illustrations
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