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"This book is published 100 years after the death of the American polymath Charles Sanders Peirce to celebrate the first century of scholarship on his work."--
In 2014, Peirce will have been dead for one hundred years. The book will celebrate this extraordinary, prolific thinker and the relevance of his idea for semiotics, communication, and cognitive studies. More importantly, however, it will provide a major statement of the current …
In 2014, Peirce will have been dead for one hundred years. The book will celebrate this extraordinary, prolific thinker and the relevance of his idea for semiotics, communication, and cognitive studies. More importantly, however, it will provide a major statement of the current …
Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passe? This title takes up these questions and argues for the centra…
How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan T…
The cognitive neurosciences
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This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. The cognitive unconscious, which postulates complex, rational, and beneficial mental processes, opposes the instinctive and intellectually pr…
"This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. The cognitive unconscious, which postulates complex, rational, and beneficial mental processes, opposes the instinctive and intellectually p…
"Rational Intuition focuses on conceptions of intuition in relation to rational processes. Covering a broad range of historical and contemporary contexts, prominent philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists explore how intuition is implicated in rational activity in …
