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On the contrary :critical essays, 1987-1997
Paul and Patricia Churchland take on their critics—with verve, combativeness, and generosity. Paul M. and Patricia S. Churchland are towering figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness. This collection was prepared in the belief that the most useful and revealing of anyone's writings are often those shorter essays penned in conflict with or criticism of one's prof…
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- 0585021848
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- 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) :illustrations.
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Against moral responsibility
Here, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298940
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Visual culture
"A short, accesible critical guide to visual culture-what it means to look and see; how the visual impacts our lives, our era, our understandings of each other, and even how it is changing our brains"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359719
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Social science for what? :battles over public funding for the "other sciences…
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made…
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Robotics :science and systems VI
"This volume contains the 40 papers presented at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2010, held at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, from June 27 to June 30, 2010"--Preface.Papers from a flagship robotics conference that cover topics ranging from kinematics to human-robot interaction and robot perception.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298933
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) :illustrations
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Women and climate change :examining discourses from the Global North
"This book investigates how women have been cast with regard to climate change science and policy-making, such as roles as victims, drivers of change, laborers, and saviors"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372664
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Retirement income :risks and strategies
With 'Retirement Income', Warshawsky offers not abstract theory or highly technical methodology but practical ideas based on the results of empirical investigations and analyses, which can be applied to household decision making by retirees and their financial planners and to the design of insurance products and public policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301596
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- 1 online resource (vi, 267 pages) :illustrations
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The open handbook of linguistic data management
A guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data.Doing language science depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and sharing linguistic research data. This volume offers a guide to linguistic data management, engaging with current trends toward the transformation of linguistics i…
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Material and mind
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A cultural biography of the prostate
"Unshrouding the prostate to reveal masculinity, sexuality, aging and disease"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366983
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