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  • A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World

    by Lars-Göran Johansson, Thomas Banitz, Volker Grimm, Tilman Hertz, Emilie Lindkvist, Rodrigo Martínez Peña, Sonja Radosavljevic, Petri Ylikoski, Maja Schlüter ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to students and researchers of Social-Ecological Systems (SES). It takes a systematic approach to three central topics: the meanings of different causal expressions, sufficiency of evidence for inferences from observations to causal relations, and how to ... Read more

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  • Language, Cognition, and Human Nature

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    by Steven Pinker ...
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Science of Language

    Interviews with James McGilvray

    by Noam Chomsky, James McGilvray ...
    Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Chomsky takes up a wide variety of topics – the nature of ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • More than Nature Needs

    Language, Mind, and Evolution

    by Derek Bickerton ...
    The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans as "divine exceptions" to natural selection. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but his ... Read more

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  • Of Minds and Language

    A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country

    Edited by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Juan Uriagereka, Pello Salaburu ...
    This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain. Chapters by leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology are framed by an introduction and conclusion by Noam Chomsky, who places the biolinguistic enterprise in an ... Read more

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  • The Brain Abstracted

    Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience

    by M. Chirimuuta ...
    **Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize from The Royal Institute of PhilosophyWinner of the 2025 Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics and Political ScienceAn exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.**All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research is something as complicated as the brain, this challenge can stretch the ... Read more

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  • What Makes Us Smart

    The Computational Logic of Human Cognition

    by Samuel J. Gershman ...
    How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognitionAt the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language, and reasoning. Yet, we routinely commit errors that reveal the failures of our thought processes. What ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Paul Humphreys ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Cognitive Science of Science

    Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change

    by Paul Thagard ...
    A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. Cognitive science combines ... Read more

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  • Understanding Perspectivism

    Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects

    Edited by Michela Massimi, Casey D. McCoy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific challenges of perspectivism in a variety of fields such as physics, biology, cognitive neuroscience, and cancer research, just as a few examples. What are the advantages of using a ... Read more

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