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  • af Christopher Cherniak
    508,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument
     
    608,95 kr.

  • - Classic Readings with a Contemporary Commentary
     
    493,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
    af J. Allan Hobson
    383,95 kr.

  • - Why Truth Matters
    af Michael P. (University of Connecticut) Lynch
    508,95 kr.

    Why truth is important in our everyday lives.

  • af Jonathan E. Adler
    93,95 kr.

  • - Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
    af Gary A. (Dr.) Klein
    219,95 kr.

    An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into trouble—and why experience can't be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods.In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines—gather as much information as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started. But in practice we make some of our best decisions by adapting to circumstances rather than blindly following procedures. In Streetlights and Shadows, Gary Klein debunks the conventional wisdom about how to make decisions. He takes ten commonly accepted claims about decision making and shows that they are better suited for the laboratory than for life. The standard advice works well when everything is clear, but the tough decisions involve shadowy conditions of complexity and ambiguity. Gathering masses of information, for example, works if the information is accurate and complete—but that doesn't often happen in the real world. (Think about the careful risk calculations that led to the downfall of the Wall Street investment houses.) Klein offers more realistic ideas about how to make decisions in real-life settings. He provides many examples—ranging from airline pilots and weather forecasters to sports announcers and Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander novels—to make his point. All these decision makers saw things that others didn't. They used their expertise to pick up cues and to discern patterns and trends. We can make better decisions, Klein tells us, if we are prepared for complexity and ambiguity and if we will stop expecting the data to tell us everything.

  • af Anthony Chemero
    508,95 kr.

    A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation.While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in studying perception, action, and cognition without explaining them in terms of mental representation. In this book, Anthony Chemero describes this nonrepresentational approach (which he terms radical embodied cognitive science), puts it in historical and conceptual context, and applies it to traditional problems in the philosophy of mind. Radical embodied cognitive science is a direct descendant of the American naturalist psychology of William James and John Dewey, and follows them in viewing perception and cognition to be understandable only in terms of action in the environment. Chemero argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than in terms of computation and representation. After outlining this orientation to cognition, Chemero proposes a methodology: dynamical systems theory, which would explain things dynamically and without reference to representation. He also advances a background theory: Gibsonian ecological psychology, "shored up” and clarified. Chemero then looks at some traditional philosophical problems (reductionism, epistemological skepticism, metaphysical realism, consciousness) through the lens of radical embodied cognitive science and concludes that the comparative ease with which it resolves these problems, combined with its empirical promise, makes this approach to cognitive science a rewarding one. "Jerry Fodor is my favorite philosopher,” Chemero writes in his preface, adding, "I think that Jerry Fodor is wrong about nearly everything.” With this book, Chemero explains nonrepresentational, dynamical, ecological cognitive science as clearly and as rigorously as Jerry Fodor explained computational cognitive science in his classic work The Language of Thought.

  • - Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Method
    af Max Emil (Hong Kong University) Deutsch
    319,95 kr.

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

  • - From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar Volume I: Cognitive Architecture
    af Paul (Johns Hopkins University) Smolensky
    843,95 kr.

    Available again from the MIT Press.

  • - From James and Wundt to Cognitive Science
    af George (University of California Mandler
    368,95 kr.

  • - From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar Volume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications
    af Paul (Johns Hopkins University) Smolensky & Geraldine (Johns Hopkins University) Legendre
    603,95 kr.

    An integrated connectionist/symbolic architecture of the mind/brain, applied to neural/genomic realization of grammar; acquisition, processing, and typology in phonology and syntax; and foundations of cognitive explanation.

  • - Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
     
    93,95 kr.

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

  • - The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling: Economic Theory and Cognitive Science
    af Georgia State University) Ross, Don (Research Fellow, The University of Houston) Sharp, mfl.
    93,95 kr.

  • af Jonathan A. Waskan
    93,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Nirmalangshu Mukherji
    93,95 kr.

  • af Nikola Grahek
    318,95 kr.

    An examination of the two most radical dissociation syndromes of the human pain experience-pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain-and what they reveal about the complex nature of pain and its sensory, cognitive, and behavioral components.

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    541,95 kr.

    An overview of the philosophical subfield of practical reasoning.

  • - Tales in the History of Neuroscience
    af Charles G. (Professor) Gross
    488,95 kr.

    In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain-from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the present time-Gross attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of history.

  • af Stephen (CUNY Graduate Center) Neale
    470,95 kr.

    Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense and extension of Bertrand Russell's classical theory of descriptions, placing it in the center of a theory of singular and nonsingular descriptive phrases and anaphoric pronouns.

  • - Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences
    af Karsten (Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy Stueber
    333,95 kr.

    Empathy as epistemically central for our folk psychological understanding of other minds; a rehabilitation of the empathy thesis in light of contemporary philosophy of mind.In this timely and wide-ranging study, Karsten Stueber argues that empathy is epistemically central for our folk-psychological understanding of other agents—that it is something we cannot do without in order to gain understanding of other minds. Setting his argument in the context of contemporary philosophy of mind and the interdisciplinary debate about the nature of our mindreading abilities, Stueber counters objections raised by some in the philosophy of social science and argues that it is time to rehabilitate the empathy thesis. Empathy, regarded at the beginning of the twentieth century as the fundamental method of gaining knowledge of other minds, has suffered a century of philosophical neglect. Stueber addresses the plausible philosophical misgivings about empathy that have been responsible for its failure to gain widespread philosophical acceptance. Crucial in this context is his defense of the assumption, very much contested in contemporary philosophy of mind, that the notion of rational agency is at the core of folk psychology. Stueber then discusses the contemporary debate between simulation theorists—who defend various forms of the empathy thesis—and theory theorists. In distinguishing between basic and reenactive empathy, he provides a new interpretive framework for the investigation into our mindreading capacities. Finally, he considers epistemic objections to empathy raised by the philosophy of social science that have been insufficiently discussed in contemporary debates. Empathy theorists, Stueber writes, should be prepared to admit that, although empathy can be regarded as the central default mode for understanding other agents, there are certain limitations in its ability to make sense of other agents; and there are supplemental theoretical strategies available to overcome these limitations.

  • af Steven D. Hales
    93,95 kr.

  • af Robert C. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Stalnaker
    488,95 kr.

    The abstract structure of inquiry--the process of acquiring and changing beliefs about the world--is the focus of this important book.

  • - The Mental Processes of Communication
    af Bruno G. (Director Bara
    408,95 kr.

  • - Using Complex Lexical Descriptions in Natural Language Processing
     
    93,95 kr.

  • - How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
    af Tom (University of Massachusetts) Roeper
    508,95 kr.

    Exploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar-and reveal the innate structures of the mind.

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