Consciousness & Thought
epub |eng | 2006-07-24 | Author:Hacking, Ian [Hacking, Ian]

12 POLITICAL ARITHMETIC Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. From 1603 the City of London kept a weekly tally of christenings and burials. Desultory ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Jonathan Cott [Cott, Jonathan]

In his poem “Élévation” from Les Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire wrote: “Agile you move, O my mind, and as a strong swimmer / swoons on the wavy sea, gaily you ...
( Category: Philosophers March 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Nicholas Jolley

III Superaddition Locke holds, then, that it is logically possible for matter to think; it is not just epistemically possible that it does. But how should we interpret his language ...
( Category: Modern February 28,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2008-11-05 | Author:Foster, Jonathan K. [Foster, Jonathan K.]

Organization and errors in memory The palest ink is better than the best memory. Chinese proverb In the 1960s and 1970s, some studies were carried out on chess players to ...
( Category: Neurology February 26,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2005-03-23 | Author:Blackmore, Susan [Blackmore, Susan]

16. Cross-wiring of the human brain. Split-brain patient P. S. was shown a snow scene to the left and a chicken claw to the right. So the speaking left hemisphere ...
( Category: Neurology February 26,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Deary, Ian J. [Deary, Ian J.]

Reaction time People with higher intelligence test scores have, on average, shorter and less variable reaction times. Look at Figure 14, which shows a box that measures people’s reaction times. ...
( Category: Cognitive February 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Paul Coates & Sam Coleman

(19) Compare the discussion in Lewis (2009) and Weatherson and Marshall (2013). (20) The notion that higher-level properties can arise from pure relations between bare particulars is contentious; however, see ...
( Category: Epistemology February 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marke Ahonen

Chrysippus seems to suggest that such terms as “woman-madness” were in common use and not specific to Stoic philosophers with their notion of “general” madness. The Platonist Galen, who provides ...
( Category: Humanism February 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Kellerman

Hitler’s Program as a Function of his Personality: A Psychoanalytic Perspective Hitler was the leader of Germany essentially from 1933–1945. In the 1920s when Hitler was in his early 30s ...
( Category: Humanism January 31,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Dale Jacquette

It should be obvious that the property N of being, having, exemplifying or instantiating nothing(ness) in a Meinongian environment is equivalent to, and actually an abbreviation in linguistic expression for ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 1980-01-21 | Author:Bohm, David

where ∈ is a very small randomly fluctuating quantity (which gets larger and larger as we go to higher and higher frequencies). To test for such a fluctuation, one could ...
( Category: Quantum Theory January 22,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-06 | Author:Ronald Russell

CHAPTER 7 * * * Far Journeys Throughout the years of inquiry, investigation, and experiment at Whistlefield, Monroe's own out-of-body experiences continued quite regularly. However, he began to feel a ...
( Category: Out-of-Body Experiences January 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Robinson, Andrew [Robinson, Andrew]

Before the accidental discovery of lithium salts in 1948 for treating mania, and the discovery of other drugs such as reserpine and chlorpromazine in the 1950s for controlling schizophrenia, sufferers ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-16 | Author:Nichols, Shaun

5 Debunking Arguments The rise of experimental philosophy has been accompanied by a rise in debunking arguments.1 I have already discussed two debunking arguments (in sections 2.6 and 4.3.5). But ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Susan Blackmore [Blackmore, Susan]

Oops. What? To my astonishment I find I’m half way through a great long line of thought about how the bird table fell over in the wind and whether it ...
( Category: Philosophy January 2,2016 )