1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956833203321

Autore

Doyle Jon <1954->

Titolo

Extending mechanics to minds : the mechanical foundations of psychology and economics / / Jon Doyle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-107-16842-2

1-280-48047-5

9786610480470

0-511-22054-5

0-511-22138-X

0-511-21945-8

0-511-31634-8

0-511-54695-5

0-511-22013-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 453 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Mechanics, Applied - Mathematics

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-442) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reconciling natural and mental philosophy -- Reconstructing rational mechanics -- Mechanical minds -- The metaphysics of mechanics -- Conclusion of the matter.

Sommario/riassunto

This book deploys the mathematical axioms of modern rational mechanics to understand minds as mechanical systems that exhibit actual, not metaphorical, forces, inertia, and motion. Using precise mental models developed in artificial intelligence the author analyzes motivation, attention, reasoning, learning, and communication in mechanical terms. These analyses provide psychology and economics with new characterizations of bounded rationality; provide mechanics with new types of materials exhibiting the constitutive kinematic and dynamic properties characteristic of different kinds of minds; and provide philosophy with a rigorous theory of hybrid systems combining



discrete and continuous mechanical quantities. The resulting mechanical reintegration of the physical sciences that characterize human bodies and the mental sciences that characterize human minds opens traditional philosophical and modern computational questions to new paths of technical analysis.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910831865803321

Autore

Greenlaw Steven A

Titolo

Principles of Economics 2e / Steven A. Greenlaw, David Shapiro, Timothy Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : OpenStax, , 2017

ISBN

9781947172371

1947172379

Edizione

[2 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (973 p.)

Soggetti

Business & Economics / Economics

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Principles of Economics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory economics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.Changes made in Principles of Economics 2e are described in the preface and the transition guide to help instructors transition to the second edition. The first edition of Principles of Economics by OpenStax is available in web view here.