"A compilation of essays by H. G. Wells describing a future world encyclopedia, similar to what we now know as Wikipedia"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Garcia lays out tactics for researchers to fully engage in education policy by directly engaging with politicians -- at levels from local to national -- both before and after they are elected"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A much-needed synthesis of active inference, a theory of mind that addresses cognition, behavior, intelligence, & mental disorders and which can be extended to explain behavior in all living systems"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Based on fieldwork at three distinct sites in Washington, DC, this book finds that the persistent problem of poverty is often framed as a problem of technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"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…
Authority and expertise in new sites of knowledge production / Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke and Bas van Heur -- Working in virtual knowledge : affective labor in scholarly collaboration / Smiljana Antonijevi?c, Stefan Dormans and Sally Wyatt -- Exploring uncertainty in knowledge representations : classifications, simulations and models of the world / Matthijs Kouw, Charles van den Heuvel and …
"A Bradford book."First presenting philosophical defences, then scientific and finally specific criticisms of opposing views including discussions on the Churchlands' 'neurophilosophy', this book discusses philosophical and scientific defences of Indirect Realism and counterarguments to the attacks of qualiaphobes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The economics of knowledge is a rapidly emerging subdiscipline of economics that has never before been given the comprehensive and cohesive treatment found in this book. Dominique Foray analyzes the deep conceptual and structural transformation of our economic activities that has led to a gradual shift to knowledge-intensive activities. This transformation is the result of the collision of a lo…
Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on in the universe is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. Ever since Descartes formulated the mind-body problem, a long line of philosophers has found the physicalist view to be preposterous. According to John Perry, the history of the mind-body problem is, in part, the slow victory of physical monism over various …