1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387278503316

Autore

Browne Thomas, Sir, <1605-1682.>

Titolo

A discourse on the fishes eaten by our Saviour with His disciples after his resurrection from the dead [[electronic resource] /] / By Sir Thomas Brown, Kt., M.D. .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Charles Mearne, and are to be sold by Henry Bonwick, at the Red Lyon, in St. Paul's Church-yard., 1684

Descrizione fisica

5 p

Soggetti

Fishes - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Text within double line border.

Possibly a post-1700 reprint?

Reproduction of original in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0189



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784434803321

Titolo

Evolution, rationality, and cognition [[electronic resource] ] : a cognitive science for the twenty-first century / / edited by Antonio Zilhao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-134-23062-1

1-280-29034-X

9786610290345

0-203-01291-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

ZilhãoAntónio <1960->

Disciplina

128/.2

Soggetti

Evolution - Philosophy

Cognition - Philosophy

Rationalism

Cognitive science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Evolution -- Intelligent design is untestable : what about natural selection? / Elliott Sober -- Social learning and the Baldwin effect / David Papineau -- Signals, evolution and the explanatory power of transient information / Brian Skyrms -- Part II: Rationality -- Untangling the evolution of mental representation / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Innateness and brain-wiring optimization / Christopher Cherniak -- Evolution and the origins of the rational / Inman Harvey -- Part III: Cognition -- How to get around by mind and body : spatial thought, spatial action / Barbara Tversky -- Simulation and the evolution of mindreading / Chandra Sripada and Alvin Goldman -- Enhancing and augmenting human reasoning / Tim van Gelder.

Sommario/riassunto

Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold - the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when applied to the understanding of the human mind.The contributors to Cognition, Evolution and Rationality use an evolutionary



standpoint to approach the nature of the human mind, including both cognitive and behavioural functions. Cognitive science is by its nature an interdisciplinary s