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Minding minds :evolving a reflexive mind by interpreting others
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- 9780262268905
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) :illustrations.
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The robot in the garden :telerobotics and telepistemology in the age of the I…
"The Robot in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. Many of our most influential technologies, the telescope, telephone, and television, were developed to provide knowledge at a distance. Telerobots, remotely controlled robots, facilitate action at a distance. Specialists use telerobots to explore ac…
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- 0585309582
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- 1 online resource (xix, 366 pages) :illustrations.
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Reasoning about knowledge
Title from title screen.Title from website (viewed Jan. 20, 2006).Reasoning about knowledge--particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge--was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts, from understanding conversations to …
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- 9780262256094
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 517 pages) :illustrations
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Real natures and familiar objects
"A Bradford book."In Real Natures and Familiar Objects Crawford Elder defends, with qualifications, the ontology of common sense. He argues that we exist--that no gloss is necessary for the statement "human beings exist" to show that it is true of the world as it really is--and that we are surrounded by many of the medium-sized objects in which common sense believes. He argues further that thes…
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- 9780262272261
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- 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)
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Starmaking :realism, anti-realism, and irrealism
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- 0585021201
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- 1 online resource (xix, 218 pages) :1 illustration.
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Sorting things out :classification and its consequences
"In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. They investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis.…
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- 9780262269070
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- 1 online resource (xii, 377 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Social empiricism
"A Bradford book."For the last forty years, two claims have been at the core of disputes about scientific change: that scientists reason rationally and that science is progressive. For most of this time discussions were polarized between philosophers, who defended traditional Enlightenment ideas about rationality and progress, and sociologists, who espoused relativism and constructivism. Recent…
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- 9780262284028
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- 1 online resource (xi, 175 pages)
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Social capital and information technology
A selection of revised papers from a workshop organized by the editors and held in Amsterdam on 21-22 May 2002, with the addition of some invited papers by social researchers.A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital-the value derived from social ties-and information technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256391
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- 1 online resource (ix, 416 pages) :illustrations
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Sharing expertise :beyond knowledge management
An overview of expertise sharing, an approach to knowledge management that emphasizes the human components of knowledge work in addition to information storage and retrieval. The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, …
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- 9780262266772
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) :illustrations
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Without miracles :universal selection theory and the second Darwinian revolut…
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