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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 …
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think
An exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of intelligence in general; with case studies of intelligent systems in ubiquitous computing, …
Economic Theory and Cognitive Science
In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics …
Being-in-the-World
Being-in-the-World is a guide to one of the most influential philosophical works of this century: Division I of Part One of Being and Time, where Martin Heidegger works out an …
Sketches of Thought
Vinod Goel argues that the cognitive computational conception of the world requires our thought processes to be precise, rigid, discrete, and unambiguous; yet there are dense, …
Dynamics in Action
What is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not only to philosophers of mind, for significant moral and legal consequences rest on the distinction …
Neural Smithing
Artificial neural networks are nonlinear mapping systems whose structure is loosely based on principles observed in the nervous systems of humans and animals. The basic idea is …
Predicative Minds
An exploration of why and how the human competence for predication came to be.The predicative mind singles out and represents an item in order to attribute to it a property, a …
Languages of the Mind
Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his …
Beginning to Read
Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over what is the "right" way to help children learn to read.Beginning to Read reconciles the debate …
Form and Function in the Brain and Spinal Cord
This book reflects Stephen Waxman's three decades of research on the form and functions of the brain and spinal cord. Building on his experience as a neuroscientist studying model …