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Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts
(MIT Press, 2018)
The principles of quantum physics―and the strange phenomena they describe―are represented most precisely in highly abstract algebraic equations. Why, then, did these mathematically driven concepts compel founders of the ...
Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content
(MIT Press, 2017)
Evolving Enactivism argues that cognitive phenomena -- perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their ...
Tetralogue : I'm right, you're wrong
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
For those new to philosophy, 'Tetralogue' is a marvellous way into the subject. For those who are old hands, it neatly poses serious questions about truth and falsity, relativism and dogma.--Dust jacket flap. Abstract: ...
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time
(MIT Press, 2018)
What altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us about the mystery of consciousness. During extraordinary moments of consciousness--shock, meditative states and sudden mystical ...
The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics
(MIT Press, 2012)
One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal question"--consideration of the moral status of nonhuman ...
One and Many: A Comparative Study of Plato’s Philosophy and Daoism Represented by Ge Hong
(University of Hawaii Press, 2012)
Is the world one or many? Ji Zhang revisits this ancient philosophical question from the modern perspective of comparative studies. His investigation stages an intellectual exchange between Plato, founder of the Academy, ...
Kurt Godel: Collected Works: Volume IV
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of ...
Kurt Godel: Collected Works: Volume V
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of ...
Matter and Consciousness
(MIT Press, 2013)
In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed ...
Habermas: Introduction and Analysis
(Cornell University Press, 2010)
The work of Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social sciences. David Ingram here provides an accessible introduction to Habermass complex thought as it ...