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Earth system analysis for sustainability
"Report of the 91st Dahlem Workshop on Earth System Analysis for Sustainabliity, Berlin, May 25-30, 2003"--Page [ii].Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to identify principles for responsible management of the global environment in the future. Pe…
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- 9780262310635
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford examines them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political perspectives. Some see the possibility of genetic choice as challenging the values of liberal dem…
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- 0262318539
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- 1 online resource (231 pages).
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The Architecture of Cognition: Rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn's Systematicity …
In 1988, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn challenged connectionist theorists to explain the systematicity of cognition. In a highly influential critical analysis of connectionism, they argued that connectionist explanations, at best, can only inform us about details of the neural substrate; explanations at the cognitive level must be classical insofar as adult human cognition is essentially syste…
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- 9780262322461
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Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities
"With increasing interest being shown in participatory research models, whether it be Wikipedia, World of Warcraft, participatory writing (like Montfort et al's 10 Print or Laurel et al's Design Research) or the more traditional communal research cultures of the arts collective or engineering lab, the Humanities is increasingly relying on computational tools to do the 'heavy lifting' necessary …
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- 9780262332064
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- 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) :illustrations
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Between Humanities and the Digital
"Like most academic discourses, the Digital Humanities are a conversation in flux. Some would argue that the Digital Humanities are already a well-established field, pointing to the 20-year history of Humanities Computing. Others (me) see a new breed of academic with skills in both technology and the traditional humanities (the Platform Studies and Software Studies series), while others might i…
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- 9780262328364
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) :illustrations
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Embodied Conversational Agents
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- 9780262270038
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- 1 online resource (430 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution and Culture: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
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- 9780262316224
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Evolution, Gender, and Rape
"A Bradford book."Multidisciplinary critiques of the notion of rape as an evolutionary adaptation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285155
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- 1 online resource (vi, 454 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach
Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling.The search for origins of communication in a wide variety of species including humans is rapidly becoming a thoroughly interdisci…
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- 9780262281010
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- 1 online resource (x, 338 pages) :illustrations.
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Explaining behavior: reasons in a world of causes
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271967
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- 1 online resource (xi, 165 pages)
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