... each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activ- ity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions. ... element and rejecting the other. • The coherence problem consists of dividing a set of elements into accepted and rejected sets in a way that satisfies the most const...
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... anything. There is a state that zombies go into when they cut themselves or stub their toes. This state makes them do the things we do when we are in pain. They curse and jump up and down and hold the ... to the two-ways strategy is imposing, but I will claim it is mistaken. At the root of this objection, and at the roots of the knowledge argument and the modal ar- g...
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the mit press natural ethical facts evolution connectionism and moral cognition oct 2003
... Natural Ethical Facts Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition William D. Casebeer A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 6750 FM UG 4/2/03 ... 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...
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the mit press neither brain nor ghost a nondualist alternative to the mind-brain identity theory aug 2005
... Dewey's pragmatism and dynamical systems theory, he proposes a bold alternative to Cartesian materialism that deserves careful scrutiny." J. A. Scott Kelso, Glenwood and Martha Creech ... Neither Brain nor Ghost - The MIT Press " ;A new view of mind is in the air. Teed Rockwell has sensed it and articulated it beautifully in this book. Using a po...
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the mit press paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment apr 2005
... economic globalization as the cause of many of the world s environmental and social ills, rather than as its potential savior. Both bioenvironmentalists and social greens agree with market liberals and ... although certainly not all, are actually supporters of what might be called social globalization. Globalization and the Global Environment The interpretation of the e...
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the mit press real natures and familiar objects apr 2004
... Massachusetts 02142 http://mitpress .mit. edu 0-262-05075-7 ,!7IA2G2-afahfd!:t;K;k;K;k REAL NATURES and Familiar Objects Crawford L. Elder In Real Natures and Familiar Objects Crawford Elder defends, with ... rich.’” —RICHARD GRANDY, DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, RICE UNIVERSITY REAL NATURES and Familiar Objects Crawford L. Elder A BRADFORD BOOK REAL NATURES and...
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the mit press subjectivity and selfhood investigating the first-person perspective jan 2006
... self- acquaintance and self-familiarity, and that every experiencing is character- ized by the fact that “I am always somehow acquainted with myself” Subjectivity and Selfhood Investigating the First-Person Perspective Dan ... Sense of Self 146 6 | Self and Other 147 I Expression and Empathy 148 II Embodied Subjectivity and Internal Otherness 156 III Beyond Empathy...
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the mit press wired for innovation how information technology is reshaping the economy oct 2009
... that the biggest risk to IT investment was 2 Measuring the Information Economy The United States is now predominantly a service-based economy. For every dollar of goods produced by the economy ... study technology s strategic value to businesses. In this book, we provide a guide for policy makers and economists who want to understand how information technology...
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the mit press global justice and transnational politics apr 2002
... imagination, the contrast between these rival con- ceptions can have far-reaching implications for the way we see global justice. The formulation of the demands of global justice as well as the identification ... of the agencies charged with meeting these demands are influenced by the choice of the appropriate concep- tion of the original position and the correspond...
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the mit press new essays on semantic externalism and self-knowledge jun 2003
... New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge Second Limitation Principle (early version) Epistemic warrant cannot be transmitted from the premises of a valid argument to its conclusion if, ... So the truth of water(3) is a necessary condition of my even being able to think water(1), and this triggers the Second Limitation Princi- ple. 10 The early version of...
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the mit press organisms and artifacts design in nature and elsewhere apr 2004
... University ORGANISMS AND ARTIFACTS Lewens The MIT Press Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 http://mitpress .mit. edu e ORGANISMS AND ARTIFACTS Tim LEWENS e Design in Nature ... 12:19 Organisms and Artifacts Design in Nature and Elsewhere Tim Lewens A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, En...
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the mit press without justification jan 2007
... undermine further the intuitive basis for the claim that there is justification without knowledge, completing the overall argument that justification simply is knowledge. In light of the overall ... successful theory must rule all and only the intuitively justified beliefs justified by the lights of the theory. Indeed, if one’s theory of justification is to serve at least partially...
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the mit press microeconomics of banking 2nd edition apr 2008
... New in the Second Edition? Since the publication of the first edition of this book, the development of academic research on the microec onomics of banking has been spectacular. This second edition attempts ... three decades, the economic theory of banking has entered a process of change that has overturned economists’ traditional view of the banking sect...
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the mit press quantum computing without magic devices sep 2008
... on the right-hand side of this equation, a i μν for i ∈ A + , (1.54) Quantum Computing without Magic Devices Zdzislaw Meglicki The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England c 2008 ... fill the space between the triangle in Figure 1.4 and the zero of the The null state vector space by admitting the null state as a possible participant in the mixtures....
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the mit press design concepts in programming languages aug 2008
... explains the meaning of programming language constructs in terms of the step-by-step process of an abstract machine. • A denotational semantics (Chapter 4) explains the meaning of programming language ... what the phrase means. Such phrases have no inherent mean- ing: their meaning is determined only in the context of a system for interpreting their structure. For example, c...
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