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The big book of concepts
"A Bradford book."Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand new objects and events. Concepts are also relevant to understanding domains such as social situations, personality types, and even artistic styles. Yet like other phenomenologically …
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- 9780262280358
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- 1 online resource (555 pages) :illustrations.
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Persistence :contemporary readings
Influential accounts of persistence?p0b4show ordinary objects persist through time?p0b4sexamine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275040
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- 1 online resource (ix, 483 pages) :illustrations.
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The Consciousness Paradox: Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts
"A Bradford Book."This publication presents a defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298582
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- 1 online resource (x, 378 pages).
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Concepts and Fuzzy Logic
Leading researchers examine the usefulness and limitations of fuzzy logic for the psychology of concepts. The classical view of concepts in psychology was challenged in the 1970s when experimental evidence showed that concept categories are graded and thus cannot be represented adequately by classical sets. The possibility of using fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic for representing and dealing w…
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- 0262298570
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- 1 online resource (ix, 274 pages) :illustrations
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Laws, Mind, and Free Will
In this work, Steven Horst addresses the apparent dissonance between the picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and our understanding of ourselves as agents who think and act.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295741
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) :illustrations, map.
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The Jean Freeman Gallery does not exist
An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project--advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery--that hoodwinked the New York art world. From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazines-- Artforum , Art in America , Arts Magazine, and ARTnews --for a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery at 26…
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- 9780262348102
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- 1 online resource (416 pages).
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The conceptual mind :new directions in the study of concepts
"The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with researchers from an ever broader range of disciplines making important contributions. In this volume, leading philosophers and cognitive scientists offer original essays that…
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- 0262326876
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 714 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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James Coleman
Illustrated critical essays on the work of artist James Coleman.James Coleman has emerged in recent years as one of the most important artists of visual postmodernism. His work has transformed critical debates about the status of the image in contemporary culture and influenced an entire generation of younger artists in ways that have not yet been fully acknowledged. Until recently, Coleman has…
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- 9780262267601
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- 1 online resource (x, 213 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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A slim book about narrow content
A good understanding of the nature of a property requires knowing whether that property is relational or intrinsic. Gabriel Segal's concern is whether certain psychological properties -- specifically, those that make up what might be called the "cognitive content" of psychological states -- are relational or intrinsic. He claims that content supervenes on microstructure, that is, if two beings …
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- 9780262283366
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- 1 online resource (177 pages).
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