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The Man Who Tasted Shapes
In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or "joined sensation," illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what it means to be …
Conceptual Spaces
Peter Gardenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches. He aims to present a coherent research programme …
Advice for a Young Investigator
An anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro, covering everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to …
The Mind within the Net
A highly readable, non-mathematical introduction to neural networks-computer models that help us to understand how we perceive, think, feel, and act.How does the brain work? How do …
The Intentional Stance
How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? Through the use of such "folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and …
The Computational Beauty of Nature
This work develops in depth the idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviours. Distinguishing "agents" from their interactions, it argues that it is the …
Metacognition
Metacognition offers an up-to-date compendium of major scientific issues involved in metacognition. The twelve original contributions provide a concise statement of theoretical and …
Cellular Biophysics
Cellular Biophysics is a quantitatively oriented basic physiology text for senior undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering, biophysics, physiology, and neuroscience …
The Revision Theory of Truth
In this rigorous investigation into the logic of truth Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap explain how the concept of truth works in both ordinary and pathological contexts. The latter …
The Contours of Agency
A wide range of philosophical essays informed by the work of Harry Frankfurt, who offers a response to each essay.The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt's …
Adapting Minds
Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was-that our psychological adaptations were …
The Rational Imagination
The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of …