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The rapid evaluation of potential fields in particle systems
"Leslie Greengard received his doctorate from Yale University where he is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department. The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems is a 1987 ACM Distinguished Dissertation.""The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems presents a group of algorithms for the computation of the potential and force fields in large-sc…
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- 9780262256254
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- 1 online resource (iv, 90 pages) :illustrations.
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Radiant cool :a novel theory of consciousness
"A Bradford book."An innovative theory of consciousness, drawing on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and supported by brain-imaging, presented in the form of a hardboiled detective story.Professor Grue is dead (or is he?). When graduate student/sleuth Miranda Sharpe discovers him slumped over his keyboard, she does the sensible thing--she grabs her dissertation and runs. Little does she susp…
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- 9780262278478
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Psychosemantics :the problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind
Bradford Books.AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262560526
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- 1 online resource (187 pages .).
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Sensory Exotica :A World Beyond Human Experience.
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- 9780262275866
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- 1 online resource (344 pages)
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Semantics, tense, and time :an essay in the metaphysics of natural language
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- 0585101175
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- 1 online resource
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Seeing double :shared identities in physics, philosophy, and literature
"The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human life: What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is it unique? To what degree can it be shared, and how? To the many philosophical and literary speculations about these topics over time, modern science has added the curious twist of quantum theory, which requires that the elementary particles of whi…
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- 9780262281492
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- 1 online resource (184 pages) :illustrations
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The science of the mind
"A Bradford book."Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter Flanagan develops a neurophilosophical theory of subjective mental life. He brings recent developments in the theory of neuronal group selection and connectionism to bear on the problems of the evolution o…
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- 2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
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- 0585023468
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 424 pages)
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The revision theory of truth
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315999
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- 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) :illustrations
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Rethinking homeostasis :allostatic regulation in physiology and pathophysiology
"A Bradford book."Homeostasis, a key concept in biology, refers to the tendency toward stability in the various bodily states that make up the internal environment. Examples include temperature regulation and oxygen consumption. The body's needs, however, do not remain constant. When an organism is under stress, the central nervous system works with the endocrine system to use resources to main…
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- 9780262283274
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Representation and reality
"A Bradford book."Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book. Putnam argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge…
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- 0585021228
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- 1 online resource (xv, 136 pages).
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