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Evolving enactivism :basic minds meet content
Evolving Enactivism" argues that cognitive phenomena - perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their earlier book Radicalizing Enactivism, which proposes that there can be forms of cognition without content, Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin demonstrate the unique explanatory advantag…
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- 9780262339773
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 328 pages).
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Dynamics in action: Intentional behavior as a complex system
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585176248
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- 1 online resource (x, 288 pages) :illustrations
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Communicative Action and Rational Choice
Originally published: 2001.In this book Joseph Heath brings Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action into dialogue with the most sophisticated articulation of the instrumental conception of practical rationality-modern rational choice theory. Heath begins with an overview of Habermas's action theory and his critique of decision and game theory. He then offers an alternative to Habermas'…
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- 9780262275156
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- 1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) :illustrations.
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Closer :performance, technologies, phenomenology
Susan Kozel draws on live performance practice, digital technologies & the philosophical approach of phenomenology. She places the human body at the centre of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive systems & affective computing, asking what is to be discovered as we become closer to our computers?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277563
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- 1 online resource (355 pages).
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The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt
"A Bradford book."The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt's influential writing on personal identity, love, value, moral responsibility, and the freedom and limits of the human will. Many of Frankfurt's deepest insights come from exploring the self-reflective nature of human agents and the psychic conflicts that self-reflection often produces. His work has informed discussions …
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- 9780262269599
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- 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages)
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Causing human actions :new perspectives on the causal theory of action
"A Bradford book.""The causal theory of action (CTA) is widely recognized in the literature of the philosophy of action as the "standard story" of human action and agency - the nearest approximation in the field to a theoretical orthodoxy. This volume brings together leading figures working in action theory today to discuss issues relating to the CTA and its applications, which range from exper…
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- 9780262290340
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- 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages)
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Distributed cognition and the will :individual volition and social context
"A Bradford book."Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditional concept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientific discoveries that human decision-making is distributed across different brain processes and through the social environment.Recent scientific findings about human decision making would seem to threaten the traditional concept of …
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- 9780262282635
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- 1 online resource (ix, 369 pages) :illustrations
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The act of thinking
"A Bradford book."A new theory proposes that thinking is a learned action.In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science--that thinking goes on in the head--is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person.After an introduct…
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