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Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World
The world is made up of structures too small to see with the naked eye, too small to see even with an electron microscope. Einstein established the reality of atoms and molecules in the early 1900s. How can we see a world measured in fractions of nanometers? (Most atoms are less than one nanometer, less than one-billionth of a meter, in diameter.) This beautiful and fascinating book gives us a …
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Inner Experience and Neuroscience: Merging Both Perspectives
"A Bradford Book."A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscienc…
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- 9780262305204
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, Andre Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital techno…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 169 pages).
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Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals
Here, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) :illustrations.
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Artificial Chemistries
The field of Artificial life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from pirmi…
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- 9780262329460
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- 1 online resource (xv, 555 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Language and Equilibrium
In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a system of interdependent games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281263
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) :illustrations
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Beyond bibliometrics :harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent the…
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- 9780262323284
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- 1 online resource (viii, 466 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259101
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature, but literature can influence science, especially in the early stages of intellectual devel…
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Pragmatism and Reference
Despite a revival of interest in pragmatist philosophy, most work in the analytic philosophy of language ignores insights offered by classical pragmatists & contemporary neopragmatists. This text arues that a pragmatist perspective on reference presents a distinct alternative to the prevailing analytic views on the topic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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