This title presents a philosophical refashioning of the language of thought approach to the nature of the mind, and the related computational theory of mind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates, but many traditional views have been challenged by recent findings in psychology and neuroscience. This fifth volume of Moral Psychology grows out of this new wave …
Mind design is the endeavor to understand mind (thinking, intellect) in terms of its design (how it is built, how it works). Unlike traditional empirical psychology, it is more oriented toward the "how" than the "what." An experiment in mind design is more likely to be an attempt to build something and make it work--as in artificial intelligence--than to observe or analyze what already exists. …
Within the Extended Mind Thesis (EMT) debate Robinson explores the world of affect and conation as intermediate realms of human being between the physical movements of 'body' and the qualitative movements of 'mind', and shows that affect is not only always in the process of becoming conation, but that affect is transcranial, and tends to become interpersonal conation. Affective-becoming-conativ…
An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era. In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of…
Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How some design appears to be something that it is not--by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondola…
The ""formidably brilliant"" Zizek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Klagge draws on the full range of evidence, including Wittgenstein's published work, correspondence, lectures, and conversations to place Wittgenstein's work in a broad context along a trajectory of thought that includes Job, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Hutto and Myin promote the cause of a radically enactive, embodied approach to cognition which holds that some kinds of minds - basic minds - are neither best explained by processes involving the manipulation of contents nor inherently contentful. It opposes the widely endorsed thesis that cognition always and everywhere involves content. The authors defend the counter-thesis that there can be …