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Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evol…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Catching Ourselves in the Act uses situated robotics, ethology, and developmental psychology to erect a new framework for explaining human behavior. Rejecting the cognitive science orthodoxy that formal task-descriptions and their implementation are fundamental to an explanation of mind, Horst Hendriks-Jansen argues for an alternative…
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- 9780262275262
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- 1 online resource (xii, 367 pages).
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Against nature
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enli…
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- 9780262353809
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- 1 online resource (96 pages) :illustrations.
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Unintended consequences :the impact of factor endowments, culture, and politi…
A somewhat expanded version of the Oklin Memorial Lectures ... delivered at the Stockholm School of economics in the autumn of 1995"--Preface.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277877
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- 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) :illustrations.
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Ontology of consciousness :percipient action
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316347
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 638 pages) :illustrations
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Culture and Subjective Well-Being
The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB).
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- 9780262316194
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- 1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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Philosophical psychopathology
"A Bradford book."Philosophical Psychopathology is a benchmark volume for an emerging field where mental disorders serve as the springboard for philosophical insights. It brings together innovative, current research by Owen Flanagan, Robert Gordon, Robert Van Gulick, and others on mental disorders of consciousness, self-consciousness, emotions, personality, and action and belief as well as gene…
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- 9780262274227
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- 1 online resource (ix, 332 pages)
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The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305679
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- 1 online resource (ix, 438 pages) :illustrations
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A History of African Popular Culture
Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal to…
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- 9781139061766
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- New Approaches to African History
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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…
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A History of African Motherhood The Case of Uganda, 700–1900
This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut acros…
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