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Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch A provocative, yet balanced, appraisal of evolutionary psychology and its major claims.

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The idea that human thinking and machine computing are "radically the same" provides the central theme for this marvelously lucid and witty book on what artificial intelligence is all about.

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Clark charts a fundamental shift from a static, inner-code-oriented conception of the subject matter of cognitive science to a more dynamic, developmentally rich, process-oriented view.

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Auditory Scene Analysis addresses the problem of hearing complex auditory environments, using a series of creative analogies to describe the process required of the human auditory system as it analyzes mixtures of sounds to recover descriptions of individual sounds.

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Bayes or Bust provides the first balanced treatment of the complex set of issues involved in this nagging conundrum in the philosophy of science.

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Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over what is the "right" way to help children learn to read.

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Exploring the idea that brain, body and world are united in a complex and extended computational activity, this book addresses foundational questions concerning the tools and techniques needed to make sense of the embodied mind. Ideas from robotics, neuroscience and psychology are used.

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Integrating new research in neurobiology and psychology, an account of how the cultural environment shapes the brain and the implications for social theory of the decrease in neuroplasticity from childhood to adulthood.

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In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brainfrom the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the present timeGross attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of history.

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A neurophilosophers take on the self, free will, human understanding, and the experience of God, from the perspective of the brain.

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This text, based on a course taught by Randall O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata over the past several years, provides an in-depth introduction to the main ideas in the computational cognitive neuroscience.

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A new theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches.

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The first of a planned two-volume collection of Ned Block's writings on philosophy of mind; this volume treats consciousness, functionalism, and representation and can be regarded as Block's most complete statement of his positions on consciousness.

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An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental problem of creativity in science: how does genuine novelty emerge from existing representations

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A leading authority on Continental philosophy examines the concept of critical resistance within recent poststructuralist social thought.

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Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350-year-old model of cause and explanation--one that takes all causes to be of the push-pull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to be prooflike--underlies contemporary theories of action.

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An analysis of the relationship between economic theory and the theoretical foundations of the cognitive and behavioral sciences; a comprehensive new model of economic theory that recovers the core insights of neoclassical microeconomics while making them fully relevant in the context of contemporary neuroscience and ethology.

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A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social.

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In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explanation of behavior.

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Why doesn't all this cognitive processing go on "in the dark," without any consciousness at all In this book philosophers, physicists, psychologists, neurophysiologists, computer scientists, and others address this central topic in the growing discipline of consciousness studies.

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Reflections on Stephen Waxman's three decades of research on the form and functions of the brain and spinal cord.

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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, business and management, human memory, and robotics.

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Examines language acquisition and addresses the question of what it takes to set parameters defined in universal grammar. Lightfoot asserts that parameter-setting is not sensitive to embedded material, and that it is triggered only by robust elements that are structurally simple.