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

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This volume offers contemporary investigations of the Whorfian idea that language influences how we perceive and understand the world.

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This text provides access to the author's work on the nature of mental representations in a variety of domains, in the context of a detailed theory of the level of conceptual structure developed in his earlier books "Semantics and Cognition" and "Consciousness and the Computational Mind".

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In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework.

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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.

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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.

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Philosophers and psychologists discuss new collaborative work in moral philosophy that draws on evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

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Philosophers and psychologists discuss new collaborative work in moral philosophy that draws on evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

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In Neural Organization, Arbib, rdi, and Szentgothai integrate structural, functional, and dynamical approaches to the interaction of brain models and neurobiologcal experiments.

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The authors review major advances in verbal reports over the past decade, including new evidence on how giving verbal reports affects subjects' cognitive processes, and on the validity and completeness of such reports.

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The heart of this book is the reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition.

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The relationship of self, and self-awareness, and experience: exploring classical phenomenological analyses and their relevance to contemporary discussions in consciousness research.

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A comprehensive introduction to current research on the psychology of concept formation and use.

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This book develops the idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviours. From this thesis it explores today's four most interesting computational topics: fractals, chaos, complex systems, and adaptation.

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A wide range of philosophical essays informed by the work of Harry Frankfurt, who offers a response to each essay.

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An investigation into the brain's chemistry and the mechanisms of chemically altered states of consciousness.

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A scientist examines the origins and evolutionary significance of play in humans and animals.

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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.

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The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge.

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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 human.

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A guide to the mathematical modeling of marriage.

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This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind.

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An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition "in the head."