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Between Humanities and the Digital
"Like most academic discourses, the Digital Humanities are a conversation in flux. Some would argue that the Digital Humanities are already a well-established field, pointing to the 20-year history of Humanities Computing. Others (me) see a new breed of academic with skills in both technology and the traditional humanities (the Platform Studies and Software Studies series), while others might i…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) :illustrations
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Understanding ignorance :the surprising impact of what we don't know
Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and "This is America, not Mexico or Latin America." Lack of experience, not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and repeated falsehoods are accepted and shape firm belief. Ignorance about American government and history is so alarming that the ideal of …
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- 9780262341035
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Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within
"In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired. McGinn considers the particular case of sensible qualities ideas of color, shape, taste, and so on. He argues that these, which he once regarded as the strongest case for the empiricist posit…
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- 9780262334488
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- 1 online resource (x, 137 pages)
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There are no facts :attentive algorithms, extractive data practices, and the …
"There Are No Facts examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. It unpacks how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, it shows how these spatial architectures of attention and datamining are in turn situated withi…
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Theories of Truth: A Critical Introduction
A Bradford book."Originally published: ?1992.Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's sy…
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- 9780262277198
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- 1 online resource (xi, 401 pages)
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Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective
A Bradford book."The relationship of self, and self-awareness, and experience: exploring classical phenomenological analyses and their relevance to contemporary discussions in consciousness research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286596
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- 1 online resource (vi, 265 pages)
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Inductive inference and its natural ground : an essay in naturalistic epistem…
"A Bradford book."Hilary Kornblith presents an account of inductive inference that addresses both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. He argues that inductive knowledge is possible by virtue of the fit between our innate psychological capacities and the causal structure of the world.Kornblith begins by developing an account of natural kinds that has its origins in John Locke's work on…
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- 1 online resource (x, 123 pages)
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Anti-individualism and knowledge
"A Bradford book."Contemporary philosophy of mind is dominated by anti-individualism, which holds that a subject's thoughts are determined not only by what is inside her head but also by aspects of her environment. Despite its dominance, anti-individualism is subject to a daunting array of epistemological objections: that it is incompatible with the privileged access each subject has to her tho…
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- 9780262269346
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 339 pages).
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Mental time travel episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past
"In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge.\sCurrent philosophical approaches to memory rest on assumptions that are incompatible with the rich body of theory and data coming from psychology.\sMichaelian argues that abandoning those assumptions will result in a …
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- 9780262334570
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- 1 online resource (xx, 291 pages) :illustrations.
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How knowledge grows :the evolutionary development of scientific practice
"An argument that science is indeed 'socially constructed' but in a way that exposes it to a Darwinian version of variability and selection which ensures its success"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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