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  • The Idealized Mind

    From Model-Based Science to Cognitive Science

    by Michael D. Kirchhoff ...
    A defense of scientific realism based on the role of idealization in the cognitive sciences.We study nature, including the mind and brain, by building scientific models. In The Idealized Mind, Michael Kirchhoff brings together ideas from the philosophy of cognitive science and the philosophy of science to reconcile scientific realism with model-based science. His defense of scientific realism—the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Idealized Brain

    Uniting Philosophy of Science and Computational Neuroscience

    by Michael D. Kirchhoff ...
    A critical look at our modeling techniques, and what idealized modeling can tell us, if anything, about the mind and brain.In The Idealized Brain, Michael Kirchhoff explores the challenges of using idealized modeling in computational neuroscience. The book spans work on neural coding, deep learning, machine learning, AI, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of science.The author ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing

    A Third Wave View

    by Michael D. Kirchhoff, Julian Kiverstein ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Philosophy
    In this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is realised by more than just the brain. They argue that the mechanisms and processes that realise phenomenal consciousness can at times extend across brain, body, and the social, material, and cultural world. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein offer a state-of-the-art tour of current ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Understanding Consciousness

    by Max Velmans ...
    Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense. Building on the widely praised first edition, this new edition adds fresh research, and deepens the original analysis in a way that reflects some of the fundamental changes in the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Cognitive Science

    by Mark J. Cain ...
    In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of the workings of the human mind. Philosophy has made a major contribution to cognitive science and has itself been hugely influenced by its development. This dynamic book explores the philosophical significance of cognitive science and examines the central debates that have enlivened its history.In a wide-ranging and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Brain Abstracted

    Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience

    by M. Chirimuuta ...
    **Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize from The Royal Institute of PhilosophyWinner of the 2025 Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics and Political ScienceAn exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.**All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research is something as complicated as the brain, this challenge can stretch the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings

    Edited by Jose Luis Bermudez ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy
    Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers. Addressing in depth the major topics within philosophy of psychology, the editor has carefully selected articles under the following headings:pictures of the mindcommonsense psychologyrepresentation and cognitive architecture.Articles by the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Philosophical Applications Of Cognitive Science

    by Alvin I. Goldman ...
    One of the most fruitful interdisciplinary boundaries in contemporary scholarship is that between philosophy and cognitive science. Now that solid empirical results about the activities of the human mind are available, it is no longer necessary for philosophers to practice armchair psychology. In this short, accessible, and entertaining book, Alvin Goldman presents a masterly survey of recent work ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Non-Linear Mind

    Psychoanalysis of Complexity in Psychic Life

    Edited by James Rose, Graham Shulman ...
    Series series The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
    This book is concerned with whether we can develop our understanding of the mind through the application of new approaches to the study of complex systems. It is divided into two sections. The first is concerned with the application of non-linear systems theory to the psychoanalytic study of the mind. The second is concerned with the technical application of the ideas of chaos theory to the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • What are Mental Representations?

    Edited by Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga, Tobias Schlicht ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    The topic of this book is mental representation, a theoretical concept that lies at the core of cognitive science. Together with the idea that thinking is analogous to computational processing, this concept is responsible for the "cognitive turn" in the sciences of the mind and brain since the 1950s. Conceiving of cognitive processes (such as perception, reasoning, and motor control) as consisting ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • The Conscious Mind

    In Search of a Fundamental Theory

    by David J. Chalmers ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminent figures as Francis Crick, Daniel C. Dennett, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Predictive Mind

    by Jakob Hohwy ...
    A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. It is an attractive theory because powerful theoretical arguments support it, and yet it is at heart stunningly simple. Jakob Hohwy explains and explores this theory ... Read more

    $36.99 USD