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1	I Am a Strange Loop more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter add to wishlist What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Kind of Schools We Need: Personal Essays more books like this by Elliot W Eisner add to wishlist "Education without the arts would be an impoverished enterprise". So says award-winning author Eliot Eisner, an internationally renowned authority on how the arts can be used to improve education. In a long and distinguished career, Eisner has given eloquent voice to the concerns of those who decry the marginalization of the arts in school ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $41.62!
3	Mistaken Identity: The Mind-Brain Problem Reconsidered more books like this by Leslie Brothers add to wishlist see all copies from $13.74! new only from $13.74! \| SVS
4	Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature more books like this by Peter Godfrey-Smith add to wishlist This book explains the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing links philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of 'externalist' explanations. The author provides a biological approach to the investigation of mind and cognition ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $33.69! \| SVS
5	Epistemology and Cognition more books like this by Alvin I Goldman add to wishlist Against the traditional view, Alvin Goldman argues that logic, probability theory, and linguistic analysis cannot by themselves delineate principles of rationality or justified belief. The mind's operations must be taken into account. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $40.95! \| SVS
6	Kant's Transcendental Psychology more books like this by Patricia Kitcher add to wishlist For the last 100 years historians have denigrated the psychology of the Critique of Pure Reason. In opposition, Patricia Kitcher argues that we can only understand the deduction of the categories in terms of Kant's attempt to fathom the psychological prerequisites of thought, and that this investigation illuminates thinking itself. Kant tried to ... see all copies from $18.49! new only from $28.03! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Modularity in Knowledge Representation and Natural-Language Understanding more books like this by Jay L Garfield (Editor) add to wishlist This book presents essays in which a diverse group of philosophers, linguists, psycholinguists, and neuroscientists - including both proponents and critics of the modularity hypothesis - address general questions and specific problems related to modularity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.01! \| first editions
8	Cognitive Science and Folk Psychology: The Right Frame of Mind more books like this by W F Haselager add to wishlist 'Folk Psychology' - our everyday talk of beliefs, desires and mental events - has long been compared with the technical language of 'Cognitive Science'. Does folk psychology provide a correct account of the mental causes of our behaviour, or must our everyday terms ultimately be replaced by a language developed from computational models and ... see all copies from $43.00! new only from $51.98! \| first editions
9	Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G E M Anscombe (Editor), G H Von Wright (Editor) add to wishlist "These two volumes must be welcomed in particular for the illumination they shed ...on Wittgenstein's already published discussions ...the characteristic deluge of examples, analogies, questions and challenges is as ever, maddening, provoking and thought-provoking, and with the earlier-published works they constitute not just the most detailed but ... see all copies from $22.39! new only from $33.96! \| SVS
10	Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind more books like this by Shaun Gallagher add to wishlist Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher of mind who has made it his business to study and meet with leading neuroscientists, including Michael Gazzaniga, Marc Jeannerod and Chris Frith. The result is this unique introduction to the study of the mind, with topics ranging over consciousness, emotion, language, movement, free will and moral responsibility. ... see all copies from $23.38! new only from $23.38! \| SVS
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13 view cover	The Systematicity Arguments more books like this by Ken K Aizawa add to wishlist "The Systematicity Arguments" is the only book-length treatment of the systematicity and productivity arguments. It explores each of the arguments in detail addressing the explanatory standard that is involved in the arguments, what is to be explained in the arguments, how diverse theories have attempted to meet the explanatory challenges of ... see all copies from $38.14! new only from $69.95! \| SVS
14 view cover	Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages more books like this by Robert Pasnau add to wishlist This book is a major contribution to the history of philosophy in the later medieval period (1250-1350). It focuses on cognitive theory, a subject of intense investigation during these years. In fact many of the issues that dominate philosophy of mind and epistemology today - intentionality, mental representation, scepticism, realism - were hotly ... see all copies from $92.50! new only from $92.50! \| SVS
15 view cover	Evolution, Rationality and Cognition: A Cognitive Science for the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Antonio Zilhao (Editor) add to wishlist Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold - the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when applied to the understanding of the human mind. The ... see all copies from $122.65! new only from $122.65!
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19	Studies Phil Mind more books like this by Harold Brown, Ph.D. add to wishlist see all copies from $6.39! first editions
20 view cover	Tuning the Mind more books like this by Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen add to wishlist Starting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music more expressive heightened the power of words, which, in turn, gave birth to the modern semantics of musical expression. As the skepticism of seventeenth-century science divorced the acoustic properties from the metaphysical qualities of music, the door was opened to dicern the rich ... see all copies from $31.00! new only from $60.13!
21	Precognition and the Philosophy of Science: An Essay on Backward Causation more books like this by Bob Brier add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
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23	Principles of Biological Autonomy more books like this by Francisco J Varela, Ph.D. add to wishlist see all copies from $400.00!
24 view cover	The Bounds of Cognition more books like this by Frederick Adams, Kenneth Aizawa add to wishlist An alarming number of philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that mind extends beyond the brain and body. This book evaluates these arguments and suggests that, typically, it does not. This is a timely and relevant study that exposes the need to develop a more sophisticated theory of cognition, while pointing to a bold new direction in ... see all copies from $50.00! new only from $79.84!
25	Cognitive psychology in question more books like this by Alan Costall, Arthur Still add to wishlist see all copies from $32.26!

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