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There is growing evidence from the science of human behavior that our everyday, folk understanding of ourselves as conscious, rational, responsible agents may be radically mistaken. The science, some argue, recommends a view of conscious agency as merely epiphenomenal: an impotent accompaniment to t...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
368
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199746990
EAN Code
9780199746996
ISBN #
8
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science invites readers to join in up-to-the-minute conceptual discussions of the fundamental issues, problems, and opportunities in cognitive science. Written by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this vivid and engaging introduc...
Author
Andy Clark
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195138570
EAN Code
9780195138573
ISBN #
5
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 fea...
Author
Andy Clark
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195177517
EAN Code
9780195177510
ISBN #
4
Andy Clark has a memory problem; but it's everyone else's memory that's the problem. Andy remembers his whole life story, however no one else does. According to everyone he knows, Andy never exisited.
Author
Brian Borgford
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
55
ISBN #
12
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence...
Author
Andy Clark
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
424
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0190217014
EAN Code
9780190217013
ISBN #
9
Ranging across both standard philosophical territory and the landscape of cutting-edge cognitive science, Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Second Edition, is a vivid and engaging introduction to key issues, research, and opportunities in the field.Starting with the v...
Author
Andy Clark
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199828156
EAN Code
9780199828159
ISBN #
3
Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new tools and techniques needed to make sense of...
Author
Andy Clark
Binding
Paperback
Pages
292
Publisher
A Bradford Book
ISBN #
0262531569
EAN Code
9780262531566
ISBN #
2
When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind , Andy Clark argues that our thinking doesn'...
Author
Andy Clark
Binding
Paperback
Pages
318
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199773688
EAN Code
9780199773688
ISBN #
1