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Interpreting minds
Unlike most current researchers in philosophy and psychology, who view interpretation as a way to understand the minds and behavior of others, Radu J. Bogdan sets out to establish a new evolutionary and practical view of interpretation. According to Bogdan, the ability to interpret others' mental states has evolved under communal, political, and epistemic pressures to enable us to cope with the…
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- 0262268892
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- 1 online resource (318 pages).
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The machinima reader
This is a critical overview of the emerging field of machinima the use of computer game engines to create movies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295369
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages) :illustrations
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Cognition and perception : How do psychology and neural science inform philos…
An argument that there are perceptual mechanisms that retrieve information in cognitively and conceptually unmediated ways and that this sheds light on various philosophical issues. In Cognition and Perception, Athanassios Raftopoulos discusses the cognitive penetrability of perception and claims that there is a part of visual processes (which he calls “perception”) that results in repre…
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- 9780262259149
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 419 pages)
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Persistence :contemporary readings
Influential accounts of persistence?p0b4show ordinary objects persist through time?p0b4sexamine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275040
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- 1 online resource (ix, 483 pages) :illustrations.
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Personal, portable, pedestrian :mobile phones in Japanese life
The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan's enthusiastic engagement with mobile technology has become -- along with anime, manga, and sushi -- part of its trendsetting popular cul…
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- 9780262256414
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- 1 online resource (viii, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Desire: its role in practical reason and the explanation of action
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283243
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- 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)
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Development and evolution: complexity and change in biology
Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that are redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary theory, begun in his influential book Evolving Hierarchical Systems, while negating the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attemp…
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- 9780262282895
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
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- 9780262277686
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- 1 online resource (ix, 117 pages) :illustrations
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Digital halftoning
Along with text and graphics, images are fast becoming a generic data type for general-purpose computer systems. This poses new problems for the systems designer, who must be able to preprocess digital image data for a wide variety of video and hard copy displays. Digital halftoning, the method by which the illusion of continuous-tone images are created through the arrangement of binary picture…
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- 0262291029
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages) :illustrations
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Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education
"The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scient…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) :illustrations
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