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  • How To Do Things With Logic

    by C. Grant Luckhardt, William Bechtel, Grant Luckhardt ...
    In the past 15 years a host of critical thinking books have appeared that teach students to find flaws in the arguments of others by learning to detect a number of informal fallacies. This book is not in that tradition. The authors of this book believe that while students learn to become vicious critics, they still continue to make the very mistakes they criticize in others. Thus, this book has ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Mind

    An Overview for Cognitive Science

    by William Bechtel ...
    Series series Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series
    Specifically designed to make the philosophy of mind intelligible to those not trained in philosophy, this book provides a concise overview for students and researchers in the cognitive sciences. Emphasizing the relevance of philosophical work to investigations in other cognitive sciences, this unique text examines such issues as the meaning of language, the mind-body problem, the functionalist ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • How To Do Things With Logic Workbook

    Workbook with Exercises

    by C. Grant Luckhardt, William Bechtel, Grant Luckhardt ...
    In the past 15 years a host of critical thinking books have appeared that teach students to find flaws in the arguments of others by learning to detect a number of informal fallacies. This book is not in that tradition. The authors of this book believe that while students learn to become vicious critics, they still continue to make the very mistakes they criticize in others. Thus, this book has ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Science

    An Overview for Cognitive Science

    by William Bechtel ...
    Series series Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series
    This text focuses on two major issues: the nature of scientific inquiry and the relations between scientific disciplines. Designed to introduce the basic issues and concepts in the philosophy of science, Bechtel writes for an audience with little or no philosophical background.The first part of the book explores the legacy of Logical Positivism and the subsequent post-Positivistic developments in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Integrating Scientific Disciplines

    Case Studies from the Life Sciences

    Edited by William Bechtel ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Interdisciplinary research has been a popular idea with many people in the last 20 years. Academic administrators have admonished their faculty to become more interdisciplinary. Students often request the chance to pursue an interdisciplinary degree. While the issue of managing interdisciplinary projects has received a fair amount of attention by those interested in science management, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Mental Mechanisms

    Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience

    by William Bechtel ...
    A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But, until recently, the opportunities to conduct experiments directly on our brains were limited. As a result, research efforts were split between disciplines such as cognitive psychology, li ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Critical Thinking

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Sharon M. Kaye ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Discover how to put your point across more effectively!Critical thinking shows people how to analyze arguments, speeches, and newspaper articles to see which faults the authors are making in their reasoning. It looks at the structure of language to demonstrate rules by which you can identify good analytical thinking and helps people to formulate clear defensible arguments themselves. As people are ... Read more

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  • The New Science of the Mind

    From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition "in the head."There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Formal Languages in Logic

    A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis

    by Catarina Dutilh Novaes ...
    Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Physicalism, or Something Near Enough

    by Jaegwon Kim ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have largely been shaped by physicalism, the doctrine that all phenomena are ultimately physical. Here, Jaegwon Kim presents the most comprehensive and systematic presentation yet of his influential ideas on the mind-body problem. He seeks to determine, after half a century of debate: What kind of (or "how much") physicalism can we lay claim to? He ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Thinking

    An Introduction to Reasoning Well

    by Dr Robert Arp, Dr Jamie Carlin Watson ...
    'You shouldn't drink too much. The Earth is round. Milk is good for your bones.' Are any of these claims true? How can you tell? Can you ever be certain you are right?For anyone tackling philosophical logic and critical thinking for the first time, Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well provides a practical guide to the skills required to think critically. From the basics of good ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Representational and the Presentational

    An Essay on Cognition and the Study of Mind

    by Benny Shanon ...
    In this wide-ranging book the author presents his critique of the contemporary portrayal of cognition, an analysis of the conceptual foundations of cognitive science and a proposal for a new concept of the mind. Shanon argues that the representational account is seriously lacking and that far from serving as a basis of cognitive activity, representations are the products of such activity. He ... Read more

    $17.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus