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On ambivalence :the problems and pleasures of having it both ways
A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?).Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative introd…
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Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
"In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi V?aliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. V?aliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks that today harness human minds and bodies--the ways that images animated on console game platforms, virtual reality technologies, and computer screens capture human…
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Investigating the Psychological World: Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sc…
"A Bradford book."Brian Haig constructs a broad theory of scientific method, which speaks to the conduct of psychological research. This abductive theory of method (ATOM) portrays research as a bottom-up process comprising two broad phases: the detection of empirical phenomena, and the construction of explanatory theories in order to explain claims about the phenomena. ATOM functions as a broad…
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- 9780262322379
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- 1 online resource (218 pages).
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The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262313155
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- 1 online resource (xii, 456 pages) :illustrations
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Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
An exploration of what experimental literature in both print and programmable media tells us about the act of reading.In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing. Portela examines a series of prin…
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- 9781461943303
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- 1 online resource (ix, 410 pages) :illustrations
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How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and …
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- 9781461935674
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- 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
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The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262325387
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 318 pages) :illustrations
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The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585020515
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- 1 online resource (xii, 128 pages) :illustrations.
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Essays on Nonconceptual Content
"A Bradford book."According to the widespread conceptualist view, all mental contents are governed by concepts an individual possesses. In recent years, however, an increasing number of philosophers have argued for the indispensability of nonconceptual content based on perceptual, emotional, and qualitative experiences; informational and computational states; memory; and practical knowledge. Wr…
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- 1 online resource (339 pages)
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Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered
Based on a conference held in Nov. 1999 at Bennington College."A Bradford book."The role of genetic inheritance dominates current evolutionary theory. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, several evolutionary theorists independently speculated that learned behaviors could also affect the direction and rate of evolutionary change. This notion was called the Baldwin effect, after the ps…
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- 1 online resource (x, 341 pages) :illustrations.
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