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Body and world
Revised edition of: The human body as material subject of the world. New York : Garland Pub., 1990.Body and World is the definitive edition of a book that should now take its place as a major contribution to contemporary existential phenomenology. Samuel Todes goes beyond Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his description of how independent physical nature and experience are united i…
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- 9780262285049
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- 1 online resource (xlvi, 337 pages)
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Body language :representation in action
"A Bradford book."An argument that activity provides a useful template for thinking about representation and that deeds are themselves representational: our representing of the world consists, in part, in certain sorts of deeds that we perform in the world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282741
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- 1 online resource (241 pages)
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Interpreting minds
Unlike most current researchers in philosophy and psychology, who view interpretation as a way to understand the minds and behavior of others, Radu J. Bogdan sets out to establish a new evolutionary and practical view of interpretation. According to Bogdan, the ability to interpret others' mental states has evolved under communal, political, and epistemic pressures to enable us to cope with the…
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- 0262268892
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- 1 online resource (318 pages).
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- 150 BOG i
Cognition and perception : How do psychology and neural science inform philos…
An argument that there are perceptual mechanisms that retrieve information in cognitively and conceptually unmediated ways and that this sheds light on various philosophical issues. In Cognition and Perception, Athanassios Raftopoulos discusses the cognitive penetrability of perception and claims that there is a part of visual processes (which he calls “perception”) that results in repre…
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- 9780262259149
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 419 pages)
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Desire: its role in practical reason and the explanation of action
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283243
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- 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)
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Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education
"The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scient…
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- 9780262319430
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- 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) :illustrations
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Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture
Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Solà-Morales. Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales. Many of the essays have never previously been translated, and the author has provided a new introduction …
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The well-played game : a player's philosophy
"In The Well-Played Game, games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players -- as well as game designers, educators, and scholars -- a guide to how games work. De Koven's classic treatise on how human beings play together, first published in 1978, investigates many issues newly resonant in the era of video and computer games, including social gameplay and …
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- 9781461939450
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If Schools Didn't Exist: A Study in the Sociology of Schools
A classic in the philosophy of education, considering the fundamental purpose and function of schools, translated into English for the first time. This classic 1971 work on the fundamental purpose and function of schools belongs on the same shelf as other landmark works of the era, including Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and John Holt's How Chil…
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- 9780262358477
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The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind
In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science -- the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She argues that enactivism entails a view of cognition as not just embodied but also intrinsically affective, and she elaborates on …
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- 9780262318419
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages)
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