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Languages of the mind :essays on mental representation
"A Bradford Book."Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his contributions is a formal theory that elaborates the nature of language and its relationship to a broad set of other domains. Languages of the Mind provides convenient access to Jackendoff's work over the past f…
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- 9780262276122
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Language, brain, and cognitive development :essays in honor of Jacques Mehler
"A Bradford book.""Short biography of Jacques Mehler": pages [513]-527.Interdisciplinary essays on central issues in cognitive science. In the early 1960s, the bold project of the emerging field of cognition was to put the human mind under the scrutiny of rational inquiry, through the conjoined efforts of philosophy, linguistics, computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Forty years later…
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- 9780262272032
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- 1 online resource (xv, 541 pages) :illustrations
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Jesuit science and the republic of letters
A reassessment of the Jesuit contributions to the emergence of the scientific worldview.Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was viewed for centuries as an impediment to the development of modern science. The Jesuit educational system was deemed conservative and antithetical to creative thought, while the Order and its members were blamed by Galileo, Descartes, and their disciples for virtuall…
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- 9780262272537
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- 1 online resource (xi, 483 pages) :illustrations.
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Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations…
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- 9780262282888
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- 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) :illustrations.
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MediaArtHistories
Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262274256
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- 1 online resource (xii, 475 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Logic and information flow
"The thirteen chapters written expressly for this book by logicians, theoretical computer scientists, philosophers, and semanticists address, from the perspective of mathematical logic, the problems of understanding and studying the flow of information through any information-processing system. The logic of information flow has applications in both computer science and natural language processi…
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- 0585358451
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- 1 online resource (233 pages) :illustrations.
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Models and cognition :prediction and explanation in everyday life and in scie…
"A Bradford book.""In this book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence a…
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- 9780262285827
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) :illustrations
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Mind readings :introductory selections on cognitive science
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315906
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) :illustrations
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Mind in everyday life and cognitive science
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267489
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- 1 online resource (viii, 529 pages) :illustrations
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The mind doesn't work that way :the scope and limits of computational psychol…
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- 9780262272902
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- 1 online resource (126 pages).
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