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The parallax view
In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a c…
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- 1 online resource (ix, 433 pages).
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The parallel brain :the cognitive neuroscience of the corpus callosum
"A Bradford book."Hemispheric specialization is involved in every aspect of sensory, cognitive, and motor systems integration. Study of the corpus callosum, the bands of tissue uniting the brain's two hemispheres, is central to understanding neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and behavior. It also brings the tools of hemispheric specialization to a fundamental problem of cognitive neuroscience: mod…
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- 9780262286602
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 551 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Varieties of meaning : the 2002 Jean Nicod lectures
A Bradford book."How the various things that are said to have meaning-purpose, natural signs, linguistic signs, perceptions, and thoughts-are related to one another.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279895
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- 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) :illustrations.
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Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind
"Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words. Ostension is philosophically puzzling; it cuts across domains seemingly unbridgeable--public--privat…
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- 9780262320610
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 305 pages)
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Infinity and perspective
A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world.Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed …
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- 9780262274999
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- 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) : illustrations
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Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy
A physician/philosopher uses anecdotes, historical narrative, and philosophical concepts to draw a moral portrait of the doctor-patient relationship."My mission is to analyze medicines ethical structure. I do so as both a physician and a philosopher. Of my two voices, it is the latter that is informed by the former ... As a physician I have sought professional solutions to the frustrations of f…
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Insights of genius : imagery and creativity in science and art
Originally published: New York : Copernicus, ?1996."How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing in all it's many forms - insight, revelation, a distinctive point of view - is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible"--Page 4 o…
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 9780262287340
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 482 pages) :i llustrations
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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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The Bodhisattva's Brain :Buddhism Naturalized
"A Bradford Book."Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages)
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Closer :performance, technologies, phenomenology
Susan Kozel draws on live performance practice, digital technologies & the philosophical approach of phenomenology. She places the human body at the centre of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive systems & affective computing, asking what is to be discovered as we become closer to our computers?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277563
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- 1 online resource (355 pages).
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