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Classroom Lessons: Integrating Cognitive Theory and Classroom Practice
"A Bradford book."A timely complement to John Bruer's Schools for Thought, Classroom Lessons documents eight projects that apply cognitive research to improve classroom practice. The chapter authors are all principal investigators in an influential research initiative on cognitive science and education. Classroom Lessons describes their collaborations with classroom teachers aimed at improving …
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- 9780262279482
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Uncertain archives :critical keywords for big data
"The ambition of this book is to examine in close detail the whole range of epistemological, political and ethical uncertainties that are being raised by big data in our time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361280
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Science and the production of ignorance :when the quest for knowledge is thwa…
An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance--both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally. We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer…
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- 9780262357142
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The Communications Toolkit: How to Build and Regulate Any Communications Busi…
A toolkit of basic principles to help those in business, industry, law, and other professions deal with a constantly changing communications sector. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278539
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) :illustrations
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Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective
A Bradford book."The relationship of self, and self-awareness, and experience: exploring classical phenomenological analyses and their relevance to contemporary discussions in consciousness research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286596
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- 1 online resource (vi, 265 pages)
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Computation, Causation, and Discovery
In science, business, and policymaking—anywhere data are used in prediction—two sorts of problems requiring very different methods of analysis often arise. The first, problems of recognition and classification, concerns learning how to use some features of a system to accurately predict other features of that system. The second, problems of causal discovery, concerns learning how to predict…
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- 9780262315821
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- 1 online resource (xv, 552 pages) :illustrations
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Optimality-theoretic syntax
Recent work in theoretical syntax has revealed the strong explanatory power of the notions of economy, competition, and optimization. Building grammars entirely upon these elements, Optimality Theory syntax provides a theory of universal grammar with a formally precise and strongly restricted theory of universal typology: cross-linguistic variation arises exclusively from the conflict among uni…
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- 9780262316149
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Computational Learning Theory and Natural Learning Systems, Volume 4: Making …
This is the fourth and final volume of papers from a series of workshops called "Computational Learning Theory and `Natural' Learning Systems." The purpose of the workshops was to explore the emerging intersection of theoretical learning research and natural learning systems. The workshops drew researchers from three historically distinct styles of learning research: computational learning theo…
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- 9780262291132
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Deliberate ignorance :choosing not to know
"Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars discuss when is deliberate ignorance a virtue, and what type of environment does it require"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363273
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Inductive inference and its natural ground : an essay in naturalistic epistem…
"A Bradford book."Hilary Kornblith presents an account of inductive inference that addresses both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. He argues that inductive knowledge is possible by virtue of the fit between our innate psychological capacities and the causal structure of the world.Kornblith begins by developing an account of natural kinds that has its origins in John Locke's work on…
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- 0585311234
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