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Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousness? The answer to this question has been pondered upon, grappled with, and argued about since time immemorial. There has never been an answer that achieved consensus; certainly philosophers have never agreed.In this book, William Lycan defends an original…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 165 pages)
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Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity
"A Bradford book."In Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity, Michael Tye takes on the thorny issue of the unity of consciousness and answers these important questions: What exactly is the unity of consciousness? Can a single person have a divided consciousness? What is a single person? Tye argues that unity is a fundamental part of human consciousness--something so basic to everyday expe…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) :illustrations.
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Consciousness, Color, and Content
"A Bradford book."Experiences and feelings are inherently conscious states. There is something it is like to feel pain, to have an itch, to experience bright red. Philosophers call this sort of consciousness "phenomenal consciousness." Even though phenomenal consciousness seems to be a relatively primitive matter, something more widespread in nature than higher-order or reflective consciousness…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages).
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Consciousness, Function, and Representation, Volume 1: Collected Papers
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268776
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- 1 online resource (vi, 636 pages) :illustrations.
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Consciousness Reconsidered
"A Bradford book."Consciousness is neither miraculous nor ultimately mysterious. In this broad, entertaining, and persuasive account Owen Flanagan argues that we are on the way to understanding consciousness and its place in the natural order. No aspect of consciousness escapes Flanagan's probe. Qualia, self-consciousness, autobiographical memory, perceptions, sensations, the stream of consciou…
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A Constitution for the European Union
International economists and other scholars address the major issues that arise in writing a European constitution, including the evolution of federalism and the role of direct democracy.The leaders of European Union member states have declared that a European constitution should take "a clear, open, effective, democratically controlled Community approach." Their goal--that within the Union, "E…
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- 9780262268639
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) :illustrations.
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Constraint-Based Reasoning
"A Bradford book."Reprinted from Artificial intelligence, volume 58, numbers 1-3, 1992.Constraint-based reasoning is an important area of automated reasoning in artificial intelligence, with many applications. These include configuration and design problems, planning and scheduling, temporal and spatial reasoning, defeasible and causal reasoning, machine vision and language understanding, quali…
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- 1 online resource (403 pages) :illustrations
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Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms: Parsing and Type Inference for Natural a…
Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area. Constraint-based theories of grammar and grammar formalisms are becoming an increasingly widespread area of research in computational linguistics. Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 183 pages) :illustrations
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Constructions
In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, JohnRajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. foreword by Paul Virilio. In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions…
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Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction
Intended for designers and researchers, Context and Consciousness brings together 13 contributions that apply activity theory to problems of human-computer interaction. Understanding how people actually use computers in their everyday lives is essential to good design and evaluation. This insight necessitates a move out of the laboratory and into the field. The research described in Context and…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) :illustrations
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