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The letters of George Santayana.
The fourth of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.George Santayana published The Realm of Matter (1930) and The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931). He continued work on Book Three of Realms of Being, The Realm of Truth, and on his novel, The Last Puritan. Citing his commitment to his writing and his intention to retire from academia, he declined offers from Harvard University for…
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- 1 online resource (lxxv, 530 pages) :illustrations.
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The letters of George Santayana.
The fifth of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.During the period covered by this book, George Santayana had settled permanently in Rome. His best-selling novel, The Last Puritan, was published in London in 1935 and in the United States in 1936, where it was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. In 1936 Santayana became one of the few philosophers ever to appear on th…
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- Santayana ed.
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- 9780262282949
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- 1 online resource (lxxxvii, 609 pages) :illustrations.
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Models and cognition :prediction and explanation in everyday life and in scie…
"A Bradford book.""In this book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence a…
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- 9780262285827
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) :illustrations
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Minding minds :evolving a reflexive mind by interpreting others
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268905
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) :illustrations.
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Mind in a physical world :an essay on the mind-body problem and mental causat…
"A Bradford book."Book consists of four revised lectures given by the author as the Townsend Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, in Mar. 1996."This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim const…
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- 9780262277105
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- 1 online resource (viii, 146 pages).
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The mind doesn't work that way :the scope and limits of computational psychol…
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- 9780262272902
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- 1 online resource (126 pages).
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Microcircuits :the interface between neurons and global brain function
"Report of the 93rd Dahlem Workshop on Microcircuits: the interface between neurons and global brain function, Berlin, April 25-30, 2004"--Page [ii].AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274326
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Methods in mind
Experts discuss the wide variety of investigative tools available to cognitive neuroscience, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, neuroscience computation, fMRI, imaging genetics, and neuropharmacology, with particular emphasis on convergence of t.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (ix, 382 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Metaphor in context
"A Bradford book."Josef Stern addresses the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does metaphorical interpretation, in whole or part, fall within its scope?The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, receiv…
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- 9780262284356
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 385 pages)
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The rational imagination :how people create alternatives to reality
"A Bradford book.""The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that underlie rational thoughts. Research has shown that rational thought is more imagin…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) :illustrations
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