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The rediscovery of the mind
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- 9780262315982
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- 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages).
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Reconstructing the cognitive world :the next step
"A Bradford book.""In Reconstructing the Cognitive World, Michael Wheeler argues that we should turn away from the generically Cartesian philosophical foundations of much contemporary cognitive science research and proposes instead a Heideggerian approach. Wheeler begins with an interpretation of Descartes. He defines Cartesian psychology as a conceptual framework of explanatory principles and …
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- 9780262286039
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- 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages)
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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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The realistic spirit :Wittgenstein, philosophy, and the mind
The realistic spirit, a nonmetaphysical approach to philosophical thought concerned with the character of philosophy itself, informs all of the discussions in these essays by philosopher Cora Diamond. Diamond explains Wittgenstein's notoriously elusive later writings, explores the background to his thought in the work of Frege, and discusses ethics in a way that reflects his influence. Diamond'…
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- 9780262271660
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- 1 online resource (412 pages).
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Readings on color
"A Bradford book."Color is an endlessly fascinating subject to philosophers, scientists, and laypersons, as well an an instructive microcosm of cognitive science. In these two anthologies, Alex Byrne and David Hilbert present a survey of the important recent philosophical and scientific writings on color. The introduction to volume 1 provides a philosophical background and links the philosophic…
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- 9780262269636
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- 1 online resource (2 volumes) :illustrations
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Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science.
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- 9780262287814
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- 1 online resource (872 pages)
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Spectrum of belief :Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics
"In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and that between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this transformation."--Jacket.OCLC-l…
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- 9780262276160
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- 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) :illustrations
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The spatial economy :cities, regions, and international trade
Originally published: 1999.The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.Since 1990 there has been a renaissance of theoretical and empirical work on the spatial aspects of the economy--…
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- 9780262273329
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) :illustrations
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A slim book about narrow content
A good understanding of the nature of a property requires knowing whether that property is relational or intrinsic. Gabriel Segal's concern is whether certain psychological properties -- specifically, those that make up what might be called the "cognitive content" of psychological states -- are relational or intrinsic. He claims that content supervenes on microstructure, that is, if two beings …
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- 9780262283366
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- 1 online resource (177 pages).
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Sketches of landscapes :philosophy by example
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- 9780262284516
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages)
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