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  • An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

    Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age

    by David W. Bates ...
    A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglement, according to David W. Bates, emerged in the seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's Healthcare Transformation

    Strategies and Innovations

    by Susan A. Abookire, David W. Bates, Sarah Slight, Mark R. Chassin, Erin S. DuPree, Alberta T. Pedroja, William S. Weintraub, Sandra A. Weiss, Kasaiah Makam, Arthur "Tim" Garson, Jason Gorevic, Tine Hansen-Turton, Kenneth Patric, Janet J. Teske, Arnold Milstein, Elizabeth Malcolm, Steven R. Steinhubl, Ju Young Kim, Alicia D.H. Monroe, Nana Ekua Coleman, Julia D. Andrieni, Mauro Ferrari, Hanh H. Hoang, Philip Greenland, Kunal N. Karmali, Gary S. Kaplan, Henry H. Ting, Kasey R. Boehmer, Victor M. Montori, Thomas W. Feeley, Nikhil G. Thaker, James L. Field, Thomas H. Lee, Deirde Mylod, Sharyl Wojciechowski, Amir Rubin, Marc L. Boom ...
    A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together key thought leaders and trail-blazing practitioners, who provide a wide-ranging exploration of the ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Key Advances in Clinical Informatics

    Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology

    Edited by David W. Bates, Kathrin Cresswell, Adam Wright, Aziz Sheikh ...
    Key Advances in Clinical Informatics: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology provides a state-of-the-art overview of the most current subjects in clinical informatics. Leading international authorities write short, accessible, well-referenced chapters which bring readers up-to-date with key developments and likely future advances in the relevant subject areas. This book ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Pseudoscience

    Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

    Edited by Massimo Pigliucci, Maarten Boudry ...
    "A remarkable contribution to one of the most vexing problems in science: the 'demarcation' problem, or how to distinguish science from nonscience." —Francisco J. Ayala, author of Darwin's Gift to Science and ReligionWhat sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mind's New Science

    A History Of The Cognitive Revolution

    by Howard Gardner ...
    The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge? ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Is Consciousness Everywhere?

    Essays on Panpsychism

    by Philip Goff ...
    This volume, originally a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, uses the recent writings of Philip Goff as a jumping-off point for discussions of panpsychism — the idea that consciousness is a fundamental and pervasive aspect of our universe that cannot be understood in other, more basic, terms. The contributors to this book explore various issues of panpsychism from the ... Read more

    $22.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Weirdness of the World

    by Eric Schwitzgebel ...
    How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre—and why that’s a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem

    In Defence of Interaction

    by Karl Popper ...
    Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what Popper calls big issues - too big for easy answers, but too important to be ignored. In these lectures, and in the discussions that ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Extended Mind

    The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture

    by Robert K. Logan ...
    The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.Building on his previous ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn

    Incommensurability in Science

    by Thomas S. Kuhn ...
    A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn's unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development, which Kuhn himself described as a return to the central claims of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the problems that it raised ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cybersemiotics

    Why Information Is Not Enough

    by Soren Brier ...
    A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics provides such a framework.By integrating cybernetic information theory into the unique semiotic ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Realism

    by Manuel DeLanda, Graham Harman ...
    Until quite recently, almost no philosophers trained in the continental tradition saw anything of value in realism. The situation in analytic philosophy was always different, but in continental philosophy realism was usually treated as a pseudo-problem. That is no longer the case.In this provocative new book, two leading philosophers examine the remarkable rise of realism in the continental ... Read more

    $18.00 USD