De La Mettrie's ghost : the story of decisions / / by Chris Nunn |
Autore | Nunn Chris <1940-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Macmillan, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina |
123/.5
153.83 |
Collana | Macmillan Science |
Soggetto topico |
Consciousness
Mechanism (Philosophy) Mind and body Decision making Physiology Free will and determinism |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century
Age of Enlightenment drama drawing enlightenment free will memory nature philosophy physics politics prose style Victorian era |
ISBN |
1-281-28369-X
9786611283698 0-230-54943-8 0-230-55221-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | spa |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Back to basics; 3 Memory; 4 Free will and free won't; 5 Illusions of willing; 6 Susan's tale (Part I); 7 Objects in mind; 8 More cognitive objects; 9 Weariness - Victorian and modern; 10 Good ideas; 11 Susan's tale (Part II); 12 Stories and their people; 13 Of laws, physics and stories; Epilogue: On being a story; Notes; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910597151903321 |
Nunn Chris <1940-> | ||
New York, : Macmillan, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Good and real [[electronic resource] ] : demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / / Gary L. Drescher |
Autore | Drescher Gary L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
Disciplina | 146/.6 |
Soggetto topico |
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Philosophy of mind Ethics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-262-29389-7
1-282-09801-2 9786612098017 0-262-27194-X 1-4237-7445-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452018103321 |
Drescher Gary L | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Good and real : demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / / Gary L. Drescher |
Autore | Drescher Gary L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
Disciplina | 146/.6 |
Soggetto topico |
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Philosophy of mind Ethics |
Soggetto non controllato | COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
ISBN |
0-262-29389-7
1-282-09801-2 9786612098017 0-262-27194-X 1-4237-7445-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777516003321 |
Drescher Gary L | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Good and real : demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / / Gary L. Drescher |
Autore | Drescher Gary L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
Disciplina | 146/.6 |
Soggetto topico |
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Philosophy of mind Ethics |
Soggetto non controllato | COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
ISBN |
0-262-29389-7
1-282-09801-2 9786612098017 0-262-27194-X 1-4237-7445-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815610303321 |
Drescher Gary L | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mechanism, life and mind in modern natural philosophy / / edited by Charles T. Wolfe, Paolo Pecere, Antonio Clericuzio |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (359 pages) |
Disciplina | 146.6 |
Collana | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées |
Soggetto topico | Mechanism (Philosophy) |
ISBN | 3-031-07036-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter 1 Guido Giglioni (Macerata) Scaliger Bacon Harvey: A Trajectory in the Early Modern History of Vegetative Life -- Chapter 2 Andreas Blank (Klagenfurt) Jacob Martini on Vegetative Powers and the Question of Emergence -- Chapter 3 Oana Matei (Arad/Bucharest) Particles, universal spirit, and seeds: John Evelyn's matter theory in Elysium Britannicum -- Chapter 4 Riccardo Chiaradonna (Roma Tre) Plotinus and Ficino in Ralph Cudworth’s philosophy of nature -- Chapter 5 Emanuela Scribano (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Battles for nature: from Descartes to Boyle via Harvey -- Chapter 6 Barnaby Hutchins (Klagenfurt) Mechanism as a non-exhaustive ontology: Descartes and irreducibles -- Chapter 7 Delphine Bellis (Paul Valéry University, Montpellier) Animal Life and the Human Mind in Gassendi’s Philosophy -- Chapter 8 Antonio Clericuzio (Rome) Mechanisms of Muscular Motion in 17th Century England -- Chapter 9 Claire Crignon (Paris) Does the soul always think ? Observing partial insanity (Willis and Locke) -- Chapter 10 Antonio Nunziante (Padova) Nested Machines, Rule-Governed Series: Leibniz's Integrated Model of Life -- Chapter 11 Raphaële Andrault (CNRS-ENS Lyon) The diachronic mechanism of Spinoza’s friends -- Chapter 12 Luca Tonetti (Sapienza, Rome) Irritating drugs and affected solids: The notion of “stimulus” in Baglivi’s pathology -- Chapter 13 Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Psychology and Mechanism: Christian Wolff on the Soul-Body Analogy -- Chapter 14 Marco Storni (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Mechanism, Matter and Force in Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis’s Embryology -- Chapter 15 Cécilia Bognon-Küss (Paris-Diderot) Intussusception, vital mechanisms and the ontology of life -- Chapter 16 Charles Wolfe (Ghent) Expanded mechanism or heuristic vitalism? -- Chapter 17 Federico Boccaccini (Brasilia) Mental Machinery and active powers from Hartley to Ward -- Chapter 18 Liesbet De Kock (VUB Brussels) Mechanism and Teleology in Psychological Explanation: On Causes, Motives and the Methodological Versatility of Wilhelm Wundt’s Scientific Psychology -- Chapter 19 Paolo Pecere (Roma Tre) Mechanism and “organisation of the mind” from Kant to Helmholtz -- Chapter 20 Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) Vital Forces and Mental Activity: The Physiology of Perception and the History of the Qualia Debate. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910631098203321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The mechanistic conception of life |
Autore | Loeb Jacques <1859-1924> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 574 |
Collana | John Harvard library |
Soggetto topico |
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Biology - Philosophy Biology Life (Biology) |
ISBN | 0-674-55950-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248313103316 |
Loeb Jacques <1859-1924> | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Recht der Polizei : massnahmen, methoden, mechanismen / / Pascal Basten |
Autore | Basten Pascal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baden-Baden, Germany : , : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.2 |
Collana | Kompendien für Studium, Praxis und Fortbildung |
Soggetto topico |
Police
Mechanism (Philosophy) |
ISBN | 3-8452-7465-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910160732703321 |
Basten Pascal | ||
Baden-Baden, Germany : , : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reliability of the cognitive mechanism : a mechanist account of empirical justification / / W.J. Talbott |
Autore | Talbott W. J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 121.6 |
Collana | Routledge Library Editions : Epistemology |
Soggetto topico |
Justification (Theory of knowledge)
Mechanism (Philosophy) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-315-69462-X
1-317-44013-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Preface ""; ""Preface References ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Contents""; ""CHAPTER I. Introduction""; ""justification and Justification (1)""; ""Some Terminological Difficulties: Justification for Xing a Y""; ""Justification and Inference""; ""Actual and Potential Inferences""; ""A Clash of Paradigms""; ""Outline of the Strategy""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER II. The Inferentialist Paradigm: The Formal Analysis""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER III. Foundationalism""; ""Inductive Inference""
""Inductive Probability""""Probabilistic Analyses of Acceptance""; ""The (Partial) Analysis of Inductive Inference by Deductive Relations""; ""Inferential Priority""; ""The Revisability of Observation Statements""; ""Theoretical Seeing""; ""The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (1)""; ""Conventionalism""; ""Equal Priority ""; ""The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (2)""; ""Probabilistic Premises""; ""Observation Statements as Statements Describing Experience""; ""A New Foundationalist Alternative""; ""Conclusion""; ""Summary"" ""CHAPTER IV. Our Cognitive Mechanism""""Empirical Beliefs: Beliefs Based on Observation""; ""Inferences and ""Inferences""""; """"Inferential"" Support""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER V. Infallibility and Reliability""; ""Infallibility""; ""Reliability (1)""; ""Statistical Probability""; ""Reliability (2)""; ""Reference Predicates That Say Too Little""; ""Reference Predicates That Say Too Much""; ""Reliability, Probability, and Relative Frequencies""; ""The Random Confidence Generator""; ""The Reliability of One's Own Faculties"" ""Non-Statistical Interpretations of Probability: The Mystery of the Missing Reference Predicate""""Confidence Assignments That Are Unreliably High (or Low) ""; ""Decisiveness""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VI. More About Our Cognitive Mechanism""; ""Probabilistic ""Inferences""""; ""The ""Self-Correcting"" Feature of Our Cognitive Mechanism""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VII. justification""; ""justification By Cause""; ""justified Assignments of Confidence and justified Beliefs""; ""The Causal Transmission of justification and of unjustification""; ""justification and ""Self-Correction"" "" ""Normative Theories of Justification""""Armchair Theories of Justification""; ""justification and Justification (2)""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VIII. Justification""; ""Justificationi and Justificationr""; ""Empirical Justification""; ""The Comparison with Pragmatic Theories of Justification""; ""The Comparison with Foundationalism""; ""The Justificatory Role of Observation""; ""The Justifiedr Behaviorist""; ""The Comparison with Coherence Theories""; ""Descriptive Coherence Theories""; ""Normative Coherence Theories""; ""Theories With Classical Logic Built Into Them""; ""Conclusion"" ""The Requirement of Consistency"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461000803321 |
Talbott W. J. | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reliability of the cognitive mechanism : a mechanist account of empirical justification / / W.J. Talbott |
Autore | Talbott W. J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 121.6 |
Collana | Routledge Library Editions : Epistemology |
Soggetto topico |
Justification (Theory of knowledge)
Mechanism (Philosophy) |
ISBN |
1-315-69462-X
1-317-44013-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Preface ""; ""Preface References ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Contents""; ""CHAPTER I. Introduction""; ""justification and Justification (1)""; ""Some Terminological Difficulties: Justification for Xing a Y""; ""Justification and Inference""; ""Actual and Potential Inferences""; ""A Clash of Paradigms""; ""Outline of the Strategy""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER II. The Inferentialist Paradigm: The Formal Analysis""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER III. Foundationalism""; ""Inductive Inference""
""Inductive Probability""""Probabilistic Analyses of Acceptance""; ""The (Partial) Analysis of Inductive Inference by Deductive Relations""; ""Inferential Priority""; ""The Revisability of Observation Statements""; ""Theoretical Seeing""; ""The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (1)""; ""Conventionalism""; ""Equal Priority ""; ""The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (2)""; ""Probabilistic Premises""; ""Observation Statements as Statements Describing Experience""; ""A New Foundationalist Alternative""; ""Conclusion""; ""Summary"" ""CHAPTER IV. Our Cognitive Mechanism""""Empirical Beliefs: Beliefs Based on Observation""; ""Inferences and ""Inferences""""; """"Inferential"" Support""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER V. Infallibility and Reliability""; ""Infallibility""; ""Reliability (1)""; ""Statistical Probability""; ""Reliability (2)""; ""Reference Predicates That Say Too Little""; ""Reference Predicates That Say Too Much""; ""Reliability, Probability, and Relative Frequencies""; ""The Random Confidence Generator""; ""The Reliability of One's Own Faculties"" ""Non-Statistical Interpretations of Probability: The Mystery of the Missing Reference Predicate""""Confidence Assignments That Are Unreliably High (or Low) ""; ""Decisiveness""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VI. More About Our Cognitive Mechanism""; ""Probabilistic ""Inferences""""; ""The ""Self-Correcting"" Feature of Our Cognitive Mechanism""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VII. justification""; ""justification By Cause""; ""justified Assignments of Confidence and justified Beliefs""; ""The Causal Transmission of justification and of unjustification""; ""justification and ""Self-Correction"" "" ""Normative Theories of Justification""""Armchair Theories of Justification""; ""justification and Justification (2)""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VIII. Justification""; ""Justificationi and Justificationr""; ""Empirical Justification""; ""The Comparison with Pragmatic Theories of Justification""; ""The Comparison with Foundationalism""; ""The Justificatory Role of Observation""; ""The Justifiedr Behaviorist""; ""The Comparison with Coherence Theories""; ""Descriptive Coherence Theories""; ""Normative Coherence Theories""; ""Theories With Classical Logic Built Into Them""; ""Conclusion"" ""The Requirement of Consistency"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797142703321 |
Talbott W. J. | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reliability of the cognitive mechanism : a mechanist account of empirical justification / / W.J. Talbott |
Autore | Talbott W. J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 121.6 |
Collana | Routledge Library Editions : Epistemology |
Soggetto topico |
Justification (Theory of knowledge)
Mechanism (Philosophy) |
ISBN |
1-315-69462-X
1-317-44013-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Preface ""; ""Preface References ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Contents""; ""CHAPTER I. Introduction""; ""justification and Justification (1)""; ""Some Terminological Difficulties: Justification for Xing a Y""; ""Justification and Inference""; ""Actual and Potential Inferences""; ""A Clash of Paradigms""; ""Outline of the Strategy""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER II. The Inferentialist Paradigm: The Formal Analysis""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER III. Foundationalism""; ""Inductive Inference""
""Inductive Probability""""Probabilistic Analyses of Acceptance""; ""The (Partial) Analysis of Inductive Inference by Deductive Relations""; ""Inferential Priority""; ""The Revisability of Observation Statements""; ""Theoretical Seeing""; ""The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (1)""; ""Conventionalism""; ""Equal Priority ""; ""The Theoretical Commitments of Observation Statements (2)""; ""Probabilistic Premises""; ""Observation Statements as Statements Describing Experience""; ""A New Foundationalist Alternative""; ""Conclusion""; ""Summary"" ""CHAPTER IV. Our Cognitive Mechanism""""Empirical Beliefs: Beliefs Based on Observation""; ""Inferences and ""Inferences""""; """"Inferential"" Support""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER V. Infallibility and Reliability""; ""Infallibility""; ""Reliability (1)""; ""Statistical Probability""; ""Reliability (2)""; ""Reference Predicates That Say Too Little""; ""Reference Predicates That Say Too Much""; ""Reliability, Probability, and Relative Frequencies""; ""The Random Confidence Generator""; ""The Reliability of One's Own Faculties"" ""Non-Statistical Interpretations of Probability: The Mystery of the Missing Reference Predicate""""Confidence Assignments That Are Unreliably High (or Low) ""; ""Decisiveness""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VI. More About Our Cognitive Mechanism""; ""Probabilistic ""Inferences""""; ""The ""Self-Correcting"" Feature of Our Cognitive Mechanism""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VII. justification""; ""justification By Cause""; ""justified Assignments of Confidence and justified Beliefs""; ""The Causal Transmission of justification and of unjustification""; ""justification and ""Self-Correction"" "" ""Normative Theories of Justification""""Armchair Theories of Justification""; ""justification and Justification (2)""; ""Summary""; ""CHAPTER VIII. Justification""; ""Justificationi and Justificationr""; ""Empirical Justification""; ""The Comparison with Pragmatic Theories of Justification""; ""The Comparison with Foundationalism""; ""The Justificatory Role of Observation""; ""The Justifiedr Behaviorist""; ""The Comparison with Coherence Theories""; ""Descriptive Coherence Theories""; ""Normative Coherence Theories""; ""Theories With Classical Logic Built Into Them""; ""Conclusion"" ""The Requirement of Consistency"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818989203321 |
Talbott W. J. | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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