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Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings

MIT Press, 2002

Scientists from many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, contribute to the study of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the science of the human mind and of how people process information, is at the core of empirical investigations into the nature of mind and thought. This anthology is based on the assumption that...

Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics (Synthese Library, 434)

Springer, 2021

This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics. By providing an overview of the development of empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen the book lays the foundation for its own version of empiricism. Empiricism for the author consists of three ideas: nominalism, i.e. dismissing second order quantification as unnecessary,...

Philosophy of Time (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

Routledge, 2021

As a growing area of research, the philosophy of time is increasingly relevant to different areas of philosophy and even other disciplines. This book describes and evaluates the most important debates in philosophy of time, under several subject areas: metaphysics, epistemology, physics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind,...

What Every Engineer Should Know About Career Management

CRC Press, 2008

Thanks to their education, experience, and general philosophical orientation, many engineers fail to notice critical issues in the workplace that can directly impact their career advancement and day-to-day job satisfaction. This text focuses on career management, and the accompanying importance of human and social interactions in the office....

Creative Environments: Issues of Creativity Support for the Knowledge Civilization Age (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2007

Creative Environments is a follow-up on the book Creative Space in the same series and by the same authors, serving this time as editors of a broader book on computational intelligence and knowledge engineering tools for supporting knowledge creation. This book contains four parts. The first part presents a further development of models of...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics (Oxford Handbooks)

Oxford University Press, 2013

This Oxford Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics. It surveys new issues and the problems that have become a focus of attention in recent years. It also provides up-to-date discussions of the still very important problems that dominated the field in the past.

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Paths: Why is life ?lled with so many detours?

Birkhauser, 2020

This open access book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn.

Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths as part of the science of networks, it entertainingly describes the universal nature of paths in...

Simply Quantum Physics

DK Adult, 2021

A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to quantum physics.

Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This beginner’s quantum physics book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and easy-to-understand explanations make it the most accessible guide to quantum physics on the market.
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Thinking on the Web: Berners-Lee

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Tim Berners-Lee, Kurt Gödel, and Alan Turing are the pivotal pioneers who opened the door to the Information Revolution, beginning with the introduction of the computer in the 1950s and continuing today with the World Wide Web evolving into a resource with intelligent features and capabilities.

Taking...

Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about the Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Oxford University Press, 2004

In this unique contribution to philosophical debate, Craig DeLancey shows that our best understanding of emotion provides essential insight on key issues in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. DeLancey offers us a bold new approach to the study of the mind based on the latest scientific research, and provides an accessible overview of...

Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory, and Education Volume 2

Springer, 2008

Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice.

This conference will discuss issues pertaining to...

Rubyisms in Rails, Digital Shortcut

Addison Wesley, 2007

This is not a programming guide. Yes, there is code, but this digital shortcut is not about coding. Rather, this is really a short about design, about philosophy, and about appreciating beauty. This short looks at the way in which the grace of Ruby informs the design of Rails.

This is a surprisingly...

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