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Against nature
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enli…
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- 9780262353809
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- 1 online resource (96 pages) :illustrations.
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On the contrary :critical essays, 1987-1997
Paul and Patricia Churchland take on their critics—with verve, combativeness, and generosity. Paul M. and Patricia S. Churchland are towering figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness. This collection was prepared in the belief that the most useful and revealing of anyone's writings are often those shorter essays penned in conflict with or criticism of one's prof…
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- 0585021848
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- 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) :illustrations.
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Plato's camera :how the physical brain captures a landscape of abstract unive…
A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge. In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation--or "takes a picture"--of the universe's timeless categorical and dynamical structure. This construction process, which …
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- 9780262302869
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- 1 online resource (x, 289 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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On the origin of objects
On the Origin of Objects is the culmination of Brian Cantwell Smith's decade-long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, he presents an argument for an embedded, participatory, "irreductionist," metaphysical alternati…
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- 0585038198
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- 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) :illustrations
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Like-minded :externalism and moral psychology
This title presents a proposal that the cognitive processes that make us moral agents are partially constituted by features of our external environments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298926
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- 1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) :illustrations
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Communicative Action and Rational Choice
Originally published: 2001.In this book Joseph Heath brings Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action into dialogue with the most sophisticated articulation of the instrumental conception of practical rationality-modern rational choice theory. Heath begins with an overview of Habermas's action theory and his critique of decision and game theory. He then offers an alternative to Habermas'…
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- 9780262275156
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- 1 online resource (xii, 363 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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Onflow :dynamics of consciousness and experience
"A Bradford book."Understanding consciousness by taking the stream of consciousness seriously; a general characterization of experience and a detailed description of experience from within, drawing on theories of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Searle, and Gerald Edelman.In Onflow, Ralph Pred supplies an account of the nature of consciousness that grapples with "the raw unverbalized…
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- 9780262281881
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- 1 online resource (xii, 348 pages)
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Type-Logical Semantics
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269902
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 575 pages).
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The paradox of self-consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, Jose Luis Bermudez addresses two fundamental problems in the philosophy and psychology of self-consciousness: (1) Can we provide a noncircular account of full-fledged self-conscious thought and language in terms of more fundamental capacities? (2) Can we explain how full-fledged self-conscious thought and language can arise in the normal course of human developme…
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- 0585190089
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) :illustrations.
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