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Genes, Brains, and Human Potential: The Science and Ideology of Intelligence by Ken Richardson
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Ken Richardson

BASIC PRESUPPOSITIONS Theories of cognition today, are, basically, elaborations of one or the other (or some combination) of three sets of presuppositions. These have been around for at least the ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
The Enigma of Reason by Mercier Hugo
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Mercier, Hugo

Is Bias Always Bad? How should cognitive mechanisms in general go about producing sound beliefs? Part of the answer, it seems, is that they should be free of bias. Biases ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
The Elephant in the Brain by Simler Kevin; Hanson Robin;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Simler, Kevin; Hanson, Robin;

EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM To appreciate the contrast between our ideals and our actual behavior, it helps to portray what ideal charitable behavior looks like. Luckily, others have done this job for ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by Pascal Boyer
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Pascal Boyer [Boyer, Pascal]

The Psychology of Exchange However limited compared to modern commerce, prehistoric trade demonstrates that humans had at some point developed the specific psychological capacities that make it possible to exchange ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
Brainstorms by Dennett Daniel C.;
epub |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:Dennett, Daniel C.;

IV With those qualifications and excuses behind me, I turn to the decisive question. Suppose an entity were all wired up in some fashion so as to realize the flow ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
Understanding Ignorance by DeNicola Daniel R.;
epub |eng | 2017-09-22 | Author:DeNicola, Daniel R.;

Ignorance, Action, and Responsibility Aristotle set the framework for analyzing the relation of ignorance to voluntary action—and hence to moral responsibility.17 He observes that actions that are coerced or produced ...
( Category: Epistemology January 19,2020 )
Consciousness by Blackmore Susan;
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | 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 January 19,2020 )
Artificial You by Susan Schneider
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Susan Schneider [Susan Schneider]

( Category: Robotics & Automation January 19,2020 )
The Genius Checklist: Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius by Dean Keith Simonton
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Dean Keith Simonton

Tip 7 Turn Yourself into a Child Prodigy / Wait Until You Can Become a Late Bloomer! All pediatricians, and probably all conscientious parents, are familiar with the developmental norms ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
Linguistic Bodies by Paolo Ezequiel A. Di; Cuffari Elena Clare; Jaegher Hanne De & Elena Cuffari & Hanne De Jaegher
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Paolo, Ezequiel A. Di; Cuffari, Elena Clare; Jaegher, Hanne De & Elena Cuffari & Hanne De Jaegher

Sensorimotor and organic bodies are transformed under the socially mediated and reflexive relations linguistic agents enter into to the point of becoming dependent on linguistic skills, broadly construed. Planning and ...
( Category: Semantics January 19,2020 )
The Evolution of Imagination by Stephen T. Asma
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:Stephen T. Asma [Asma, Stephen T.]

We’ve tuned the theory as best we can, at this juncture. Some of our instruments are more obscure than others; some intonation is dodgy, some strings missing, and valves broken. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self (The MIT Press) by Marc Wittmann
azw3 |eng | 2018-08-10 | Author:Marc Wittmann

Notes 1. Karl Jaspers, Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 3rd ed. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925), 112. 2. See, for example, the ideas of the sociologist Hartmut Rosa in Social Acceleration: A New ...
( Category: Neurology January 19,2020 )
Good Habits, Bad Habits : The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick (9781250159083) by Wood Wendy
epub |eng | | Author:Wood, Wendy

* * * There’s an old concept in economics called creative destruction. It captures the inevitable moments of stress and fracture created in a market economy. Those moments are immediately ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 16,2020 )
The Stars in Our Pockets: Getting Lost and Sometimes Found in the Digital Age by Howard Axelrod
epub |eng | 2020-01-01 | Author:Howard Axelrod

JUST A FEW SUNDAYS AGO, on Harvard Avenue, I saw a teenager, maybe fifteen or sixteen, who had found her answer. She was with her parents. They were short and ...
( Category: Essays January 15,2020 )
Thinking and Reasoning by Jonathan St B. T. Evans
epub |eng | 2017-06-12 | Author:Jonathan St B. T. Evans

Probability judgement: heuristics and biases The theory of rational decision making requires that we assign probabilities to events in order to devise a decision tree of the kind shown in ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 15,2020 )

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