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Imagination and the meaningful brain
"A Bradford book."The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of…
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- 9780262280044
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages)
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- Philosophical Psychopathology
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- 150 MOD i
The foundations of cognitive archaeology
In The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology, Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much to offer one another. Abramiuk draws on relevant topics from philosophy, biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, and archaeology to establish theoretically founded and emp…
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- 9780262305273
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- 1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) :illustrations
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Moving without a body :digital philosophy and choreographic thoughts
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and …
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- 9780262313858
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- 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) :illustrations.
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Mental reality (Second Edition, With A New Appendix)
"A Bradford book.""In Mental reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative …
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- 2nd ed., with a new appendix.
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- 9780262259224
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- 1 online resource (xx, 373 pages) :illustrations.
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Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning
"Presents the latest research on embodied cognition's applications for educational practices, and offers perspectives on how the relationships among mind, brain, body, and environments impact learning"--
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- 9780262368995
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Ontology of consciousness :percipient action
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316347
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 638 pages) :illustrations
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Closer :performance, technologies, phenomenology
Susan Kozel draws on live performance practice, digital technologies & the philosophical approach of phenomenology. She places the human body at the centre of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive systems & affective computing, asking what is to be discovered as we become closer to our computers?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277563
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- 1 online resource (355 pages).
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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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- 9780262272759
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages)
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Belief's own ethics
"A Bradford book."The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence. Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea that what one ought to believe is a matter of what it is rational, prudent, ethical, or personall…
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- 9780262266826
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- 1 online resource (xv, 357 pages)
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The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem
An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features -- a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem -- whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, se…
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- 9780262346962
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 506 pages) :illustrations
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