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1	Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind. more books like this by Michael S Gazzaniga see all copies from £7.44! new only from £42.36! \| first editions
2	Philosophy in the Flesh more books like this by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Ph.D. What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the center of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental assumptionsthat we can know our own minds by introspection, that most of our thinking about the ... see all copies from £11.61! new only from £15.02! \| first editions
3	The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience more books like this by Francisco J Varela, Ph.D., Evan T Thompson, Eleanor Rosch Although the scientific study of the mind has developed rapidly, it has devoted little attention to human cognition understood as everyday lived experience. "The Embodied Mind" discusses the spontaneous and reflective dimensions of human experience. The authors argue that it is only by having a sense of common ground, between mind in science and ... see all copies from £16.36! new only from £17.46!
4	The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought more books like this by Gary F Marcus see all copies from £6.39! new only from £7.62! \| first editions
5	Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter, Fluid Analogies Research Group Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception is investigated through the exploration of playful anagrams, number puzzles, word play and fanciful alphabetical styles, and the result is a ... see all copies from £6.49! new only from £31.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Schools for Thought: A Science of Learning in the Classroom more books like this by John T Bruer, Ph.D. If we want to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all children, we must start applying what we know about mental functioning - how children think, learn and remember - in our schools. We must apply cognitive science in the classroom. "Schools for Thought" provides a straightforward, general introduction to cognitive research and ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £10.25!
7	Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine more books like this by Donald A Norman In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine. Humans have always worked with objects to extend our cognitive powers, from counting on our fingers to ... see all copies from £6.14! new only from £12.95! \| first editions
8	Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science more books like this by Andy Clark Mindware is an introductory text with a difference. In eight short chapters it tells a story and invites the reader to join in some up-to-the-minute conceptual discussion of the key issues, problems, and opportunities in cognitive science. The story is about the search for a cognitive scientific understanding of mind. It is presented as a no-holds ... see all copies from £21.34! new only from £25.22!
9	The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science more books like this by Philip N Johnson-Laird In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Philip N. Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| first editions
10	Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought more books like this by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson Three major findings of cognitive science cast doubt on the past 2,500 years of Western philosophy. Lakoff and Johnson propose to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, starting from clearly known facts about the mind. . In this radical rebuilding of Western philosophy from a scientific basis, Lakoff and Johnson first describe the kind of ... see all copies from £14.00! new only from £21.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us about Human Nature more books like this by Kenan Malik Are humans unique? Can animals think as we do? Will machines ever have consciousness? For centuries, attempts to answer these questions have been the stuff of both bar-room debates and intense theological and philosophical dispute. Now scientists claim they can solve these riddles of human existence once and for all. In so doing, they promise to ... see all copies from £7.38! new only from £14.79! \| first editions
12 view cover	Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again more books like this by Andy Clark 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 whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new tools and techniques needed to make sense of the emerging sciences of the embodied mind. Clark brings ... see all copies from £12.98! new only from £12.98!
13 view cover	Deconstructing the Mind more books like this by Stephen P Stich see all copies from £11.81! new only from £24.55! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology more books like this by Jerry A Fodor In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian. Although Fodor has praised the computational theory of mind as the best theory of cognition ... see all copies from £10.58! new only from £10.58! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Foundations of Cognitive Science more books like this by Joao Branquinho (Editor) see all copies from £6.14! new only from £21.86! \| first editions
16 view cover	Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology more books like this by Stephen Palmer This textbook on vision reflects the integrated computational approach of modern research scientists. This interdisciplinary approach, called "vision science" integrates psychological, computational and neuroscientific perspectives. The book covers all major topics related to vision, from early neural processing of image structure in the retina to ... see all copies from £40.16! new only from £52.32!
17 view cover	A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science more books like this by Paul M Churchland If we are to solve the central problems in the philosophy of science, Paul Churchland argues, we must draw heavily on the resources of the emerging sciences of the mind/brain. In "A Neurocomputational Perspective, "Churchland illustrates the fertility of the concepts and data drawn from the study of the brain and from the study of artificial ... see all copies from £8.47! new only from £30.05! \| first editions
18 view cover	Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers will find in this elaborate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging new view of mind. see all copies from £9.87! new only from £16.47!
19 view cover	Current Directions in Cognitive Science more books like this by Society (Aps) the American Psychological Society, (Aps) Association for Psychological Science, Barbara A Spellman see all copies from £9.97! new only from £22.91!
20 view cover	Artificial Minds more books like this by Stan Franklin Recent decades have produced much research in artificial systems that exhibit important properties of mind. But what exactly is this dramatic new work and how does it change the way we think about the mind, or even about who or what has mind? Stan Franklin guides the reader through the contemporary interdisciplinary matrix of artificial ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £7.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science more books like this by Marilyn Friedman (Editor), Andy Clark (Editor), Larry May (Editor) The essays in this anthology deal with the growing interconnections between moral philosophy and research that draws upon neuroscience, developmental psychology and evolutionary biology. This cross-disciplinary interchange coincides, not accidentally, with the renewed interest in ethical naturalism. In order to understand the nature and limits of ... see all copies from £16.13! new only from £16.37! \| first editions
22 view cover	Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind more books like this by Jay Friedenberg, Gordon Silverman Throughout history, different fields of inquiry have attempted to understand the great mystery of mind and answer questions like: What is mind? How does it operate? What is consciousness? Only recently have these efforts in traditional and cutting edge disciplines become more united in their focus. Cognitive Science is the comprehensive result of ... see all copies from £35.64! new only from £36.06! \| first editions
23 view cover	Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language more books like this by M R Bennett see all copies from £14.69! new only from £16.00!
24 view cover	Speaking Minds: Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists more books like this by Peter Baumgartner, Sabine Payr (Editor) Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter-century have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer human-like intelligence by artificial means. Born of computer science, this effort has sparked a continuing debate among the psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and linguists who have pioneered--and criticized ... see all copies from £3.06! new only from £7.51! \| first editions
25 view cover	Sketches of Thought more books like this by Vinod Goel Many cognitive processes lie beyond articulate, discursive thought, beyond the reach of current computational notions. This text argues that the cognitive computational conception of the world requires our thought processes to be precise, rigid, discrete and unambiguous, and yet there are dense, ambiguous, and amorphous symbol systems, such as ... see all copies from £21.74! new only from £28.34! \| first editions

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