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Roots of social sensibility and neural function
"A Bradford book."We are social animals, with evolved mechanisms to discern the beliefs and desires of others. This social reason is linked to the concept of intentionality, the ability to attribute beliefs and desires to others. In this book Jay Schulkin explores social reason from philosophical, psychological, and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives. He argues for a pragmatist approach, in…
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- 9780262283281
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages) :illustrations
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Rethinking innateness :a connectionist perspective on development
"A Bradford book."Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet they are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way.…
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- 0585020345
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 447 pages) :illustrations.
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Representation and reality
"A Bradford book."Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book. Putnam argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge…
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- 0585021228
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- 1 online resource (xv, 136 pages).
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Representation and Recognition in Vision.
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- 9780262272155
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- 1 online resource (402 pages)
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Rediscovering empathy :agency, folk psychology, and the human sciences
"A Bradford book."Empathy as epistemically central for our folk psychological understanding of other minds; a rehabilitation of the empathy thesis in light of contemporary philosophy of mind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284530
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- 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
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Spatial schemas and abstract thought
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316163
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- 1 online resource (vi, 352 pages) :illustrations
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Social neuroscience :people thinking about thinking people
"A Bradford book."Social neuroscience uses the methodologies and tools developed to measure mental and brain function to study social cognition, emotion, and behavior. In this collection, John Cacioppo, Penny Visser, and Cynthia Pickett have brought together contributions from psychologists, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, and neurologists that focus on the neurobiological underpi…
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- 9780262303088
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) :illustrations.
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Social cognition :making sense of people
-- Neal Roese, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585077827
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- 1 online resource (xi, 602 pages) :illustrations.
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Sketches of thought
"A Bradford book."Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 1991.Much of the cognitive lies beyond articulate, discursive thought, beyond the reach of current computational notions. In Sketches of Thought, Vinod Goel argues that the cognitive computational conception of the world requires our thought processes to be precise, rigid, discrete, and unambiguous…
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- 9780262273985
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- 1 online resource (xv, 279 pages) :illustrations
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The workplace within :psychodynamics of organizational life
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experienc…
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- 0262275449
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