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Written in a highly readable, irreverent style, The Elm and the Expert provides a lively discussion of semantic issues about mental representation, with special attention to issues raised by Frege's problem, Twin cases, and the putative indeterminacy of reference.

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Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.

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The problem of how to estimate probabilities has interested philosophers, statisticians, actuaries, and mathematicians for a long time. It is currently of interest for automatic recognition, medical diagnosis, and artificial intelligence in general. This monograph reviews existing methods, including those that are new or have not been written up in a connected manner.

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The Evolution of Central Banks employs a wide range of historical evidence and reassesses current monetary analysis to argue that the development of non-profit-maximizing and noncompetitive central banks to supervise and regulate the commercial banking system fulfils a necessary and natural function.

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A consideration of whether the human capacity to make moral judgments is innate and, if so, what implications follow; combines philosophical discussion with the latest findings from the empirical sciences.

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A new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information sharing across generations.

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A noted economist argues that the ubiquity of regulation can be explained by its greater efficiency when compared to litigation.

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A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.

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The Final Foucault is devoted to his last published (and some as yet unpublished) work and includes a translation of one of his last interviews, a comprehensive bibliography of his publications, and a biographical chronology.

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An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.

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Recasting the "problem of the last 100 feet" as "the length of the first 100 feet", this book challenges individuals, businesses, and policymakers to rethink fundamental issues in telecommunications policy.

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A history of computing focusing on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality.

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The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages provides the basic mathematical techniques necessary for those who are beginning a study of the semantics and logics of programming languages.

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The electronic marketplace is a global one, and it's changing every aspect of the consumer-vendor relathionship.

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Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer.

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The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics.

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

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This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.

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A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.

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An examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the global development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies, with case studies from China.