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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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- 9780262269629
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) :illustrations
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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
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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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