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Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evol…
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Hendriks-Jansen, Horst.

"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Catching Ourselves in the Act uses situated robotics, ethology, and developmental psychology to erect a new framework for explaining human behavior. Rejecting the cognitive science orthodoxy that formal task-descriptions and their implementation are fundamental to an explanation of mind, Horst Hendriks-Jansen argues for an alternative…

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1 online resource (xii, 367 pages).
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Against nature
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Daston, Lorraine,

A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enli…

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9780262353809
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1 online resource (96 pages) :illustrations.
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Ontology of consciousness :percipient action
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Wautischer, Helmut.

"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262316347
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1 online resource (xxix, 638 pages) :illustrations
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Philosophical psychopathology
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Graham, George,Stephens, G. Lynn.

"A Bradford book."Philosophical Psychopathology is a benchmark volume for an emerging field where mental disorders serve as the springboard for philosophical insights. It brings together innovative, current research by Owen Flanagan, Robert Gordon, Robert Van Gulick, and others on mental disorders of consciousness, self-consciousness, emotions, personality, and action and belief as well as gene…

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9780262274227
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1 online resource (ix, 332 pages)
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What's left of human nature? :a post-essentialist, pluralist, and interactive…
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Kronfeldner, Maria E.,

A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human nature ? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is the use of such a concept? What are the epistemic and ontological commitments people make when they use t…

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9780262347969
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1 online resource (xxxii, 301 pages) :illustrations
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Is human nature obsolete? :genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the hu…
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Baillie, Harold W.,Casey, Timothy.

Papers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton.As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. It…

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9780262267571
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1 online resource (x, 422 pages).
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