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The Kantian legacy in nineteenth-century science
"Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273268
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- 1 online resource (vi, 370 pages) :illustrations.
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Meaning and mental representation
"A Bradford book."In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework. Cummins asserts that mental representation is, in fact, a problem in the philosophy of science, a theoretical assumption that serves different explanatory roles w…
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- 0262530961
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- 1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) :illustrations.
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Made-up minds :a constructivist approach to artificial intelligence
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology."Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's theory as a source of inspiration for the design of an artificial cognitive system calle…
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- 0585349851
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- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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The linguistic turn in hermeneutic philosophy
Annotation The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the eighteenth century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. It was further developed in this century by Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer extended its influence to contemporary philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel and J?Habermas. This tradition focuses on the world-di…
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- 0585190097
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 377 pages).
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Models and cognition :prediction and explanation in everyday life and in scie…
"A Bradford book.""In this book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence a…
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- 9780262285827
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) :illustrations
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Minding minds :evolving a reflexive mind by interpreting others
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268905
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) :illustrations.
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Mind in a physical world :an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causat…
"A Bradford book."Book consists of four revised lectures given by the author as the Townsend Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, in Mar. 1996."This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim const…
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- 9780262277105
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- 1 online resource (viii, 146 pages).
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The mind doesn't work that way :the scope and limits of computational psychol…
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- 9780262272902
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- 1 online resource (126 pages).
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The rational imagination :how people create alternatives to reality
"A Bradford book.""The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that underlie rational thoughts. Research has shown that rational thought is more imagin…
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- 9780262269629
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) :illustrations
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Radiant cool :a novel theory of consciousness
"A Bradford book."An innovative theory of consciousness, drawing on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and supported by brain-imaging, presented in the form of a hardboiled detective story.Professor Grue is dead (or is he?). When graduate student/sleuth Miranda Sharpe discovers him slumped over his keyboard, she does the sensible thing--she grabs her dissertation and runs. Little does she susp…
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- 9780262278478
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 357 pages) :illustrations
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