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Relationscapes : Movement, Art, Philosophy
Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and the new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement, developing the concept of preacceleration which makes palpable how movement creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form.
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The Musical Representation : Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion
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Color ontology and color science
Here, leading scientists and philosophers examine new problems with new analytic tools, considering such topics as the psychophysical measurement of colour and its implications, and questions that arise from what we now know about the neural processing of colour information, colour consciousness, and colour language.
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Subjectivity and otherness : and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.
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Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evol…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Catching Ourselves in the Act uses situated robotics, ethology, and developmental psychology to erect a new framework for explaining human behavior. Rejecting the cognitive science orthodoxy that formal task-descriptions and their implementation are fundamental to an explanation of mind, Horst Hendriks-Jansen argues for an alternative…
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Emergence : Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science
This reader collects in one easy, accessible place, classic writings on emergence from contemporary philosophy and science. This title includes contributions from the likes of John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, Thomas Schelling, Stephen Wolfram and Jenny Fodor.
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Folk psychological narratives The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons
An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of n.
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The really hard problem Meaning in a Material World
A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.
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Conceptual analysis and philosophical naturalism
This volume shows how the so-called 'Canberra Plan' of metaphysical research continues to inspire (and provoke) some of the most interesting work in modern metaphysics.
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The letters of George Santayana. The Letters of George Santayana, Book Eight,…
Letters from the last years of Santayana's life, written as he completed Dominations and Powers, the final volume of his autobiography, and the one-volume abridgement of his early five-part masterwork, The Life of Reason.This final volume of Santayana's letters spans the last five years of the philosopher's life. Despite the increasing infirmities of age and illness, Santayana continued to be r…
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