Cognitive Science – serie
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19 produkter
Organization of Perception and Action
A Theory for Language and Other Cognitive Skills
Häftad, 1987
1067 kr
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Do perception and action share some of the same cognitive structures? What is the relationship between cognitive processes for sequencing, timing, and error detection in perception and action? Such issues form the basis for this fresh and absorbing study of the perception and production of language …
Learning Issues for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Häftad, 1988
1130 kr
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Learning Issues for Intelligent Tutoring Systems arrays the most current and exciting research in this dynamic and growing area of cognitive science. The various contributions address the design and use of instructional systems as well as the important theoretical and practical questions involved …
Resolving Semantic Ambiguity
Häftad, 1989
1130 kr
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Resolving Semantic Ambiguity arrrays the work of leading theorists on the issues surrounding the meaning and interpretation of ambiguous text. The chapters are organized around three major themes: (1) retrieval, (2) representation of words, and (3) text as a context. The book offers a number of new …
Ignorance and Uncertainty
Emerging Paradigms
Häftad, 1989
1580 kr
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Ignorance and Uncertainty overviews a variety of approaches to the problem of indeterminacies in human thought and behavior. This book examines, in depth, trends in the psychology of judgment and decision-making under uncertainty or ignorance. Research from the fields of cognitive psychology, …
Evolution and Human Culture
Texts and Contexts
Häftad, 2016
1239 kr
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Evolution and Human Culture argues that values, beliefs, and practices are expressions of individual and shared moral sentiments. Much of our cultural production stems from what in early hominins was a caring tendency, both the care to share and a self-care to challenge others. Topics cover …
Phenomenology of Perception
Theories and Experimental Evidence
Av Carmelo Cali
Häftad, 2017
1318 kr
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Phenomenology of Perception: Theories and Experimental Evidence reconstructs and reviews the phenomenological research of the Brentano School, Edgar Rubin, David Katz, Albert Michotte and Gestalt psychology. Phenomenology is commonly considered a philosophy of subjective experience, but this book …
Natural Language and Possible Minds
How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature
Häftad, 2017
1110 kr
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In Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature Prakash Mondal attempts to demonstrate that language can reveal the hidden logical texture of diverse types of mentality in non-humans, contrary to popular belief. The widely held assumption in …
Sequential Imperative
General Cognitive Principles and the Structure of Behaviour
Häftad, 2017
1084 kr
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In The Sequential Imperative William Edmondson explains how deep study of linguistics – from phonetics to pragmatics – can be the basis for understanding the organization of behaviour in any organism with a brain. The work demonstrates that Cognitive Science needs to be anchored in a linguistic …
Deciphering Reality
Simulations, Tests, and Designs
Häftad, 2017
1266 kr
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In Deciphering Reality: Simulations, Tests, and Designs, Benjamin B. Olshin takes a problem-based approach to the question of the nature of reality. In a series of essays, the book examines the detection of computer simulations from the inside, wrestles with the problem of visual models of reality, …
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
Inbunden, 2019
1775 kr
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Neuroscientists often consider free will to be an illusion. Contrary to this hypothesis, the contributions to this volume show that recent developments in neuroscience can also support the existence of free will. Firstly, the possibility of intentional consciousness is studied. Secondly, Libet’s …
Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and Praxis
Häftad, 2018
2101 kr
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Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the author argues that loneliness is actively constituted by acts of reflexive self-consciousness (Kant) …
Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness
Tradition and Dialogue
Av Mark Siderits, Ching Keng m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2438 kr
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Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness brings Buddhist voices to the study of consciousness. This book explores a variety of different Buddhist approaches to consciousness that developed out of the Buddhist theory of non-self. Topics taken up in these investigations include: how we are able to …
Plato’s Battle between the Gods and the Giants and Its Continuing Relevance in the Speculative Philosophy of History
Inbunden, 2024
2047 kr
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This book discusses two general theories of human consciousness. The methodology, interdisciplinary and “history of ideas”-oriented, concentrates on two opposing theories, one humanistic and the other scientific. Leibniz's optimistic claim in the seventeenth century that this world was the best of …
Conceptual Realism and Historicity: Brandom versus Hegel
Inbunden, 2024
2323 kr
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A persistent challenge in philosophy is constructing an explicit link between mind and external reality. In this regard, this book introduces and examines two opposing philosophies. It scrutinizes Brandom's inferentialist solution, encompassinging his influential work Making It Explicit (1994) and …
What’s in a Name? A Grammar of Pluralism and Foundations of the Vernacular
Inbunden, 2026
2119 kr
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Would it be possible to overcome the dualism of universalism and relativism that the story of the Tower of Babel portends, and modernity perpetuates? Between the dominant paradigms of the dualism of the classical and the vernacular, of universal grammar of Chomskian bio-linguistics and hermeneutic …
Dissolution of Mind
A Fable of How Experience Gives Rise to Cognition
Häftad, 2002
1022 kr
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This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind’s architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a dialogue, the book explores some of the psychological and philosophical …
Social Brain Matters
Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition
Häftad, 2007
1736 kr
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This book examines philosophical and scientific implications of Neodarwinism relative to recent empirical data. It develops explanations of social behavior and cognition through analysis of mental capabilities and consideration of ethical issues. It includes debate within cognitive science among …
Beyond Conceptual Dualism
Ontology of Consciousness, Mental Causation, and Holism in John R. Searle’s Philosophy of Mind
Inbunden, 2008
1188 kr
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This book is a systematic analysis of John R. Searle’s philosophy of mind. Searle’s view of mind, as a set of subjective and biologically embodied processes, can account for our being part of nature qua mindful beings. This model finds support in neuroscience and offers reliable solutions to the …
Search for a Theory of Cognition
Early Mechanisms and New Ideas
Inbunden, 2011
2192 kr
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The book brings into relief the variety of approaches and disciplines that have informed the quest for a theory of cognition. The center of interest are the historical, geographical, and theoretical peripheries of classic AI's mainstream research program. The twelve chapters bring back into focus …
