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The mind's arrows :Bayes nets and graphical causal models in psychology
"A Bradford book."In recent years, small groups of statisticians, computer scientists, and philosophers have developed an account of how partial causal knowledge can be used to compute the effect of actions and how causal relations can be learned, at least by computers. The representations used in the emerging theory are causal Bayes nets or graphical causal models. In his new book, Clark Glymo…
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- 9780262273961
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- 1 online resource (xv, 222 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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Psychosemantics :the problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind
Bradford Books.AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262560526
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- 1 online resource (187 pages .).
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Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence
From the influential author of Dynamics in Action, how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation. Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrerochallenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emerge…
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- 300 JUA c
The Changing Faces of Families Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts
With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and ""family-f…
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- 9781000901498
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Practical Issues Updates in Anesthesia and Intensive Care
This book describes the state of the art concerning some of the most hotly debated topics in anesthesia and intensive care and is at the same time intended to serve as a useful practical guide that will assist in improving outcomes. The topics covered are wide ranging and include, for example, use of the prone position in ARDS, the role of therapeutic hypothermia in the critically ill, the valu…
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- 978-3-319-18066-3
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- VIII, 199
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- 617.96 CHI p
Uma politics; An ethnography of democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 198…
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local politicians with their private agenda’s? Why does regional autonomy, as part of the national democratization progra…
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Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas
Most importantly, the book shows how literature constitutes an alternative public sphere for Black people. In a society largely controlled by white supremacist actors and institutions, Black authors have conjured fiction into a space where hard questions can be asked and answered and where the work of combatting collective, racist suppression can occur without replicating oppressive hierarchies…
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A People's History of the Second World War Resistance Versus Empire
A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows that in fact between 1939 and 1945 two distinct wars were fought – one ‘from above’ and one ‘from below’. Using…
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- 9781849647205
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Policy, Professionalization, Privatization, and Performance Assessment; Affor…
Judul "Kebijakan, Profesionalisasi, Privatisasi, dan Penilaian Kinerja" menunjukkan eksplorasi yang komprehensif terhadap interaksi dan hubungan di antara keempat elemen kunci ini: 1. Kebijakan: Hal ini mungkin mengacu pada pengembangan, implementasi, dan dampak kebijakan dalam konteks tertentu, yang dapat berupa negara, industri, atau organisasi. Analisis dan evaluasi kebijakan dapat menjadi…
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- 978-3-319-29146-8
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- Briefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 338.925 GUR p
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