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George Santayana's marginalia: A critical selection
A selection of Santayana's notes in the margins of other authors' works that sheds light on his thought, art, and life. In his essay "Imagination," George Santayana writes, "There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margins, may be more interesting than the text." Santayana himself was an inveterate maker of notes in the margins of his books, …
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- 9780262298414
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 495 pages).
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The final-over-final condition: A syntactic universal
An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial phr…
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- 9780262342018
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- 1 online resource (464 pages).
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Addiction and responsibility
This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Distinguished contributors dicuss questions concerning whether or not we are responsible for our own addictions and what responsibilities others have to help.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295635
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- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) :illustrations.
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Enaction: Toward a new paradigm for cognitive science
"A Bradford book.""Based on an International CNRS Summer School organized by the Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (ARC), held from 29 May to 03 June 2006, Ile d'Ol?eron, France"--Text.This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computation…
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- 9780262289795
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 463 pages) :illustrations
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Disorders of volition
"A Bradford book."Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substanc.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283359
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- 1 online resource (vii, 493 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Dynamics in action: Intentional behavior as a complex system
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585176248
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- 1 online resource (x, 288 pages) :illustrations
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Each wild idea: Writing, photography, history
"In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores widely ranging aspects of photography, from the timing of photography's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography." "The essays all focus on a consideration of specific photogr…
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- 9780262267892
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- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) :illustrations
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The earth's biosphere :evolution, dynamics, and change
A comprehensive overview of Earth's biosphere, written with scientific rigor and essay-like flair.In his latest book, Vaclav Smil tells the story of the Earth's biosphere from its origins to its near and long-term future. He explains the workings of its parts and what is known about their interactions. With essay-like flair, he examines the biosphere's physics, chemistry, biology, geology, ocea…
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- 9780262283823
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- 1 online resource (viii, 346 pages) :illustrations, maps
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No Medium
In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object. Dworkin considers works pred…
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- 9780262312707
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- 1 online resource (219 pages)
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Word and Object
A new edition of Quine's most important work.Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as …
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- New ed.
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- 9780262312790
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 277 pages)
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