the mit press emergence contemporary readings in philosophy and science apr 2008
the mit press emergence contemporary readings in philosophy and science apr 2008
... ‘‘mechanists’’ and the emergentists of the Deborin School,headed by A. M. Deborin.11 The Deborin School spoke of the emergence of new forms in nature, and maintained that the mechanists ‘‘neglected the ... from The Sciences of the Arti-ficial, third edition. Copyright ( 1996 by the MIT Press. Reprinted by permission of the MIT Press. 14. ‘ The Theory of Everything’’ by Robert B. Laughlin and David ... today because of the burgeoning attention to emergence in con-temporary philosophy and science. This book examines how emergence is treated in contemporary philosophy and science, and one of our...
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the mit press mind 2nd edition introduction to cognitive science apr 2005
... progress in 10 Chapter 1MindPrefaceCognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence,embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience,linguistics, and ... is in the library” and the information that Paula is in the library, modus ponensenables us to infer that Quincy is in the library. From the information thatQuincy is not in the library, it follows ... textbooks and their exams. In these questions, stu-dents are given some information and need to figure out how to calculate the answer. The starting state involves what the student knows and the information...
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the mit press brain-wise studies in neurophilosophy dec 2002
... experimental and theoretical interactionsincrease, the theories become increasingly interdigitated. The central concepts classifyingmacrophenomena and microphenomena are inevitably revised, and when the ... afield for other points of view.Again and again I have found the history of science invaluable in getting mybearings. The fact is, neuroscience is still an immature science, in the sense thatit ... courses are beginningto spring up even in depart ments that had been proudly ‘‘antibrain.’’ Studentsnot only in philosophy but also in the sciences are signing up and eagerlyattacking philosophy s...
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the mit press natural ethical facts evolution connectionism and moral cognition oct 2003
... best theories in the cognitive sciences,evolutionary biology, and ethics is the norm rather than the exception?Addressing these issues by showing how there can be useful interactionsbetween science ... cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the prarie-dog, The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats, The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,I see in them and myself ... company.Finally, I thank the United States Air Force (and, in turn, the Americantaxpayer) for funding my graduate education, and for the daily reminderthat supporting and defending the U.S....
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the mit press new essays on semantic externalism and self-knowledge jun 2003
... investigation of the information-processing mechanismsinside my head.By relying on my grasp of the theoretical component of the conceptof a thinking being, engaging in some inferences to the ... certain patterns of inference. In particular,conceptualized thought involves performing certain inferences in virtueof their form, and this is then glossed in terms of tacit knowledge of the corresponding ... question-begging reasoning, the semantics of natural-kind terms, and other issues crucial to epistemology and philosophy of mind and language. At the same time, these essaysshow that there are...
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the mit press cold war kitchen americanization technology and european users mar 2009
... of the chain. Individual consumption thusdepended on standardized, industrial, and mass-produced food in the agri-cultural sector at the beginning of the food chain. Supermarkets forced the integration ... paired paintings, in which the repulsionsof obese burghers and starving peasants ‘‘are mutual, and the indignationof the lean is even greater than of the fat,’’ an inevitable parting of wayswould ... successful in forging the mediation junction during the early part of the twentieth century. Finally, women’s experience-basedknowledge was increasingly formalized and inscribed in the appliances...
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the ends of solidarity discourse theory in ethics and politics mar 2008
... function, in the sense ofperpetuating itself by the creation and integration of new members and the maintenance of the validity of norms and the legitimacy of institutions, asocial theorist interested ... The rationalization of the life-world makes possible a kind of systemic integration that enters intocompetition with the integrating principle of reaching understanding, and, under certain ... sphere—inhabit the structures of communicative action, to the extent that they are fullyinvolved in the ongoing linguistic replication of their symbolic lifeworld, to the extent that they sustain themselves...
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the mit press coherence in thought and action nov 2000
... Coherence in Philosophy and PsychologyAt the start of the twentieth century, the disciplines of psy-chology and philosophy were beginning to separate fromeach other. Originating in the laboratories ... complementarymeanings to different words in a way that forms a coher-ent whole. For example, the sentence The pen is in the bank” can mean that the writing implement is in the finan-cial institution, but in ... mean that the animal containment is in the side of the river. In thiscoherence problem, the elements are different meanings ofwords, and the positive constraints are given by meaningconnections...
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the mit press organisms and artifacts design in nature and elsewhere apr 2004
... question the intuitions of biologists and well-informedphilosophers of biology—could be essential to recovering the role of the term in the theory, and hence its meaning in this sense. Still, these ... while the lighter onesmaintain a healthier temperature. The darker insects expend greater en-ergy in avoiding the sun, and miss out on mating opportunities as a result. In this case the sunshine ... which inhabit the deep sea, and float singly, or in groups, as the genus scalpa, have a leathern covering only: because they are not liable to the rough movements to which the others are subject, in...
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the mit press corporate power in global agrifood governance jun 2009
... sustainability in the global food system. In particular, we examine the ways corporations use and in uence the defi nition of the concept of sustainability in their exercise of power in global ... 2003). These themes provide a starting point for investigations into the role of corporations in global agriculture and food governance. The understanding of corporate power employed in much of the ... central actors in the development of this global food system. They dominate the production and international trade in food and agricultural items, and are also key players in the processing, distribution,...
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