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“jonathan waskan”

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  • Cognitive Science

    An Introduction to Mind and Brain

    by Daniel Kolak, William Hirstein, Peter Mandik, Jonathan Waskan ...
    Cognitive Science is a major new guide to the central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain. The authors clearly explain how and why cognitive science aims to understand the brain as a computational system that manipulates representations. They identify the roots of cognitive science in Descartes - who argued that all knowledge of the external world is filtered through some sort ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Neuroscience and Philosophy

    Brain, Mind, and Language

    by Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle ...
    In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive neuroscientists. Their position is then criticized by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Active Inference

    The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

    by Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl J. Friston ...
    The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines.Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

    by Anthony Chemero ...
    A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation.While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in studying perception, action, and cognition without explaining them ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Understanding Consciousness

    by Max Velmans ...
    Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense. Building on the widely praised first edition, this new edition adds fresh research, and deepens the original analysis in a way that reflects some of the fundamental changes in the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • How the Mind Uses the Brain

    To Move the Body and Image the Universe

    by Ralph Ellis, Natika Newton ...
    The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. This book explains and argues for a new approach called enactivism. Enactivism maintains that consciousness and all subjective thoughts and feelings arise from an organism's attempts to use its environment in the service of purposeful action. The authors admit that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Matter and Consciousness, third edition

    by Paul M. Churchland ...
    An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Cognitive Science

    by Mark J. Cain ...
    In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of the workings of the human mind. Philosophy has made a major contribution to cognitive science and has itself been hugely influenced by its development. This dynamic book explores the philosophical significance of cognitive science and examines the central debates that have enlivened its history.In a wide-ranging and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Conscious Mind

    by Zoltan Torey ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech.How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Crucible of Consciousness

    An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain

    by Zoltan Torey ...
    An interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.In The Crucible of Consciousness, Zoltan Torey offers a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution. He traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-boosted brain works. He identifies what it is that separates the human ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

    Edited by Susan Schneider, Max Velmans ...
    Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the fieldIncludes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters ... Read more

    $58.00 USD

  • Plato's Camera

    How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals

    by Paul M. Churchland ...
    A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge.In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation—or "takes a picture"—of the universe's timeless categorical and dynamical structure. This construction process, which begins ... Read more

    $21.99 USD