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Author: Rhodri Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-06-07
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 0521874750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage, Mind and Nature is a 2007 text which fully reconstructs this artificial language movement. In so doing, it reveals a great deal about the beliefs and activities of those who sought to reform learning in seventeenth-century England.
Author: Ray S Jackendoff
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-08-04
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0786724056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses the implications for our understanding of language acquisition and loss.
Author: Gregory Bateson
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781572734340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.
Author: Hermann Weyl
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1512819328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new study of the mathematical-physical mode of cognition.
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of Chomsky's lectures, the first three essays describe linguistic contributions to the study of the mind and the last three discuss the relationship among linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-09-28
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521646246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 in nature. In particular he explores the idea that the function of cognition is to enable agents to deal with environmental complexity. The history of the idea in the work of Dewey and Spencer is considered, as is the impact of recent evolutionary theory on our understanding of the place of mind in nature.
Author: C. B. Martin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-05-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0191614602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical. C. B. Martin, an original and influential exponent of 'ontologically serious' metaphysics, echoes Locke's dictum that 'all things that exist are only particulars', and argues that properties are powerful qualities. He also spells out the implications of this view for philosophical conceptions of causation, intentionality, consciousness, and the mind-body problem. Martin emphasizes the importance of non-conscious 'vegetative' systems, which provide clear examples of intentionality in the form of representational use. The slide from representational use to consciousness involves a change in the material of use, but not the form of representation. A concluding chapter provides an argument for the view that an ontology of particular substances and properties leads ineluctably to monism: the bus we board with Locke takes us directly to the world of Spinoza and Einstein. Along the way, we are led to understand the nature of minds and conscious states of mind in a way that avoids both reductionism (the idea that mental is reducible to the non-mental) and dualism (the idea that mental substances or properties differ dramatically from physical substances and properties).
Author: Andrew Radford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1108865070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of Andrew Radford's outstanding resource for students is a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, written by a globally-renowned expert in the field. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax, Radford outlines key concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. Each chapter contains core modules focusing on a specific topic, a summary recapitulating the main points of the chapter, and a bibliographical section providing references to original source material. This edition has been extensively updated, with new analyses, exercise materials, references and a brand-new chapter on adjuncts. Students will benefit from the online workbook, which contains a vast amount of exercise material for each module, including self-study materials and a student answerbook for these. Teachers will value the extensive PowerPoints outlining module contents and the comprehensive teacher answerbook, which covers all workbook and PowerPoint exercises.
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-04-13
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521658225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutstanding and unique contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind by Noam Chomsky.
Author: Sebastian Watzl
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-03-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0191633003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the neurosciences this book provides a unified and comprehensive answer to both questions. Sebastian Watzl shows that attention is a central structural feature of the mind. The first half of the book provides an account of the nature of attention. Attention is prioritizing, it consists in regulating priority structures. Attention is not another element of the mind, but constituted by structures that organize, integrate, and coordinate the parts of our mind. Attention thus integrates the perceptual and intellectual, the cognitive and motivational, and the epistemic and practical. The second half of the book concerns the relationship between attention and consciousness. Watzl argues that attentional structure shapes consciousness into what is central and what is peripheral. The center-periphery structure of consciousness cannot be reduced to the structure of how the world appears to the subject. What it is like for us thus goes beyond the way the world appears to us. On this basis, a new view of consciousness is offered. In each conscious experience we actively take a stance on the world we appear to encounter. It is in this sense that our conscious experience is our subjective perspective.
