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An overview of the philosophical subfield of practical reasoning.

The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic.

An argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.

A naturalistic philosophical theory of musical representation that argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals.

A groundbreaking argument challenging the traditional linguistic representational model of cognition proposes that representational states should be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models.

A defense of traditional philosophical method against challenges from practitioners of "experimental philosophy."

Why truth is important in our everyday lives.

A new, social epistemology of science that addresses practical as well as theoretical concerns.

Learning through original texts can be a powerful heuristic tool. This book collects a dozen classic readings that are generally accepted as the most significant contributions to the philosophy of space. The readings have been selected both on the basis of their relevance to recent debates on the nature of space and on the extent to which they carry premonitions of contemporary physics. In his detailed commentaries, Nick Huggett weaves together the readings and links them to our modern understanding of the subject. Together the readings indicate the general historical development of the concept of space, and in his commentaries Huggett explains their logical relations. He also uses our contemporary understanding of space to help clarify the key ideas of the texts. One goal is to prepare the reader (both scientist and nonscientist) to learn and understand relativity theory, the basis of our current understanding of space. The readings are by Zeno, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Clarke, Berkeley, Kant, Mach, Poincaré, and Einstein.

In Minimal Rationality, Christopher Cherniak boldly challenges the myth of Man the the Rational Animal and the central role that the "perfectly rational agent" has had in philosophy, psychology, and other cognitive sciences, as well as in economics.

Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350-year-old model of cause and explanation--one that takes all causes to be of the push-pull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to be prooflike--underlies contemporary theories of action.

A collection of readings on topics in cognitive science. The book presents approaches to cognitive science from the perspective that thinking consists of computational procedures on mental representations and also challenges the computational-representational understanding of the mind.

Selected works by the influential cognitive and mathematical psychologist and decision theorist Amos Tversky.

An overview of neurotechnology, the engineering of robots based on animals and animal behavior.

An argument that in response to sociocultural pressures, human minds develope self-consciousness by activating a complex machinery of self-regulation.

An argument against the view that natural norms are constituted out of some form of historical success.

J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.