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  • Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Jan Wind, Brunetto Chiarelli, Bernard Bichakjian, Alberto Nocentini, Abraham Jonker ...
    Series Book 61 - NATO Science Series D
    Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach presents a synthesis of viewpoints and data on linguistic, psychological, anatomical and behavioral studies on living species of Primates and provides a comparative framework for the evaluation of paleoanthropological studies. This double endeavor makes it possible to direct new research on the nature and evolution of human language and cognition.The ... Read more

    $287.99 USD

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  • The Happiness Hypothesis

    Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

    by Jonathan Haidt ...
    The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom can enrich and transform our livesThe Happiness Hypothesis is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations—to question it in light of what we now know from scientific ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Ikigai

    The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

    by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles ...
    **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 5 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE“Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.” ―Business Insider“One of the unintended—yet positive—consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life.” ―ForbesFind ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Bertrand Russell's Dictionary of Mind, Matter and Morals

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    This dictionary contains more than 1000 selections from over 100 of Russell's books and articles. It serves as an introduction to Russell's brilliance in analysis, argument, and exposition which develops a clear notion of his method of approach, his fundamental principles and many of his leading ideas. Found here are definitions and terms reflected in the topics of mind, matter and morals. ... Read more

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  • Working Memory, Thought, and Action

    by Alan Baddeley ...
    Series Book 45 - Oxford Psychology Series
    'Working Memory, Thought, and Action' is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volume on the model he created (with Graham Hitch) discusses the developments that have occurred within the model in the past twenty years, and places it within a broader context. Working memory is a temporary storage system that underpins our capacity for ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Natural-Born Cyborgs

    Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

    by Andy Clark ...
    From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared--we already are cyborgs. In Natural-Born Cyborgs, Clark argues that what makes humans so ... Read more

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  • Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

    Edited by Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, Ian Cross ...
    The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are uniquely human traits, so it is not surprising that this interest spans practically all branches of cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Underlying the study of language and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • How Authors' Minds Make Stories

    by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as 'simulations'. Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and related fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation that goes ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar

    Edited by Ian Roberts ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers the implications of Universal Grammar for philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and examines the history of the theory. ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • On Concepts, Modules, and Language

    Cognitive Science at Its Core

    Edited by Roberto G. de Almeida, Lila R. Gleitman ...
    What are the landmarks of the cognitive revolution? What are the core topics of modern cognitive science? Where is cognitive science heading? These and other questions are addressed in this volume by leading cognitive scientists as they examine the work of one of cognitive science's most influential and polemical figures: Jerry Fodor. Contributions by Noam Chomsky, Tom Bever, Merrill Garrett, ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Perceptual and Emotional Embodiment

    Foundations of Embodied Cognition Volume 1

    Edited by Yann Coello, Martin H. Fischer ...
    This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition. With contributions from internationally acknowledged researchers from a variety of fields, Foundations of Embodied Cognition reveals how intelligent behaviour emerges from the interplay between brain, body and environment.Covering early research and emerging trends in embodied cognition, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Issues in Science and Theology: Are We Special?

    Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology

    Edited by Knut-Willy Sæther, Anne Runehov, Dirk Evers, Michael Fuller ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a penetrating analysis of issues raised by the perennial question, ‘Are We Special?’ It brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, from astronomy and palaeontology to philosophy and theology, to explore this question. Contributors cover a wide variety of issues, including what makes humans distinct from other animals, the possibilities of artificial life and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD