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Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater
| Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113 |
| Collana | Topics in 8contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Naturalism
Science - Philosophy Philosophy of nature Metaphysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
1-283-32175-0
9786613321756 0-262-29878-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction : Lessons from the Scientific Butchery; 1 Carving Nature at Its Joints; 2 Natural Kinds and Inductive Inference; 3 The Question of Essentialism; 4 Applications; 5 The Essays; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds; 1 Introduction; 2 Goodman's Problem and Naturalness Constraints; 3 A Second Form of Inference; 4 A Nominalist Challenge; 5 A Discussion of Cases; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World; 1 Introduction
2 Distinguishing the Laws by Their Stability3 Natural Necessity; 4 The Laws Form a System; 5 How Some Laws Can Transcend Others; 6 Natural Properties; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals; 1 Lange on Laws; 2 Lange on Kinds; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?; I; II; III; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Para-Natural Kinds; Extending Plato's Metaphor; Contrast with Artifacts; Nomic Legacies; Natural Kind or Para-Natural Kind?; Kripke Tests; Putnam Tests; Back-up Strategy Second Order Para-Natural KindsHistorical Controversy; Some Parting Imagery; Summary of Three Theses; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism; 1 Natural vs. Artificial Boundaries; 2 Boundaries and Things; 3 From Boundaries to Things; 4 Conventionalism and Realism; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms; 1 Introduction; 2 Species Concepts; 3 Species Pluralism; 4 Realism in General; 5 Ereshefsky versus Kitcher; 6 The Higher Categories; 7 Conclusions; Notes; References Chapter 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds1 Essentialism about Natural Kinds; 2 Questioning the First Tenet: All and Only the Members of a Kind Have a Common Essence; 3 Questioning the First Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; 4 Questioning the Second Tenet: Causal Responsibility; 5 Questioning the Third Tenet: Explanatory Relevance; 6 Questioning the Third Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Arthritis and Nature's Joints; 1 Disease Kinds and Essences 2 Why Treat Disease Kinds as Natural Kinds?3 Two Approaches to Natural Kinds; 4 What Is a Disease?; 5 Natural Disease Kinds; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scientists' Problem, and Two Strategies for Solving It; 3 Why One-Off Models of Evolving Biological Populations Make Sense; 4 An Illustrative Case; 5 Mistakes Compounded; 6 Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 12. Similarity and Species Concepts; 1 Introduction; 2 Similarity or Sameness as the Basis of Concepts and Kinds 3 Realist Species Conceptions |
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Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater
| Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113 |
| Collana | Topics in 8contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Naturalism
Science - Philosophy Philosophy of nature Metaphysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
1-283-32175-0
9786613321756 0-262-29878-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction : Lessons from the Scientific Butchery; 1 Carving Nature at Its Joints; 2 Natural Kinds and Inductive Inference; 3 The Question of Essentialism; 4 Applications; 5 The Essays; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds; 1 Introduction; 2 Goodman's Problem and Naturalness Constraints; 3 A Second Form of Inference; 4 A Nominalist Challenge; 5 A Discussion of Cases; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World; 1 Introduction
2 Distinguishing the Laws by Their Stability3 Natural Necessity; 4 The Laws Form a System; 5 How Some Laws Can Transcend Others; 6 Natural Properties; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals; 1 Lange on Laws; 2 Lange on Kinds; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?; I; II; III; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Para-Natural Kinds; Extending Plato's Metaphor; Contrast with Artifacts; Nomic Legacies; Natural Kind or Para-Natural Kind?; Kripke Tests; Putnam Tests; Back-up Strategy Second Order Para-Natural KindsHistorical Controversy; Some Parting Imagery; Summary of Three Theses; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism; 1 Natural vs. Artificial Boundaries; 2 Boundaries and Things; 3 From Boundaries to Things; 4 Conventionalism and Realism; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms; 1 Introduction; 2 Species Concepts; 3 Species Pluralism; 4 Realism in General; 5 Ereshefsky versus Kitcher; 6 The Higher Categories; 7 Conclusions; Notes; References Chapter 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds1 Essentialism about Natural Kinds; 2 Questioning the First Tenet: All and Only the Members of a Kind Have a Common Essence; 3 Questioning the First Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; 4 Questioning the Second Tenet: Causal Responsibility; 5 Questioning the Third Tenet: Explanatory Relevance; 6 Questioning the Third Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Arthritis and Nature's Joints; 1 Disease Kinds and Essences 2 Why Treat Disease Kinds as Natural Kinds?3 Two Approaches to Natural Kinds; 4 What Is a Disease?; 5 Natural Disease Kinds; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scientists' Problem, and Two Strategies for Solving It; 3 Why One-Off Models of Evolving Biological Populations Make Sense; 4 An Illustrative Case; 5 Mistakes Compounded; 6 Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 12. Similarity and Species Concepts; 1 Introduction; 2 Similarity or Sameness as the Basis of Concepts and Kinds 3 Realist Species Conceptions |
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] | ||
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The cognitive science of science : explanation, discovery, and conceptual change / / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Scott Findlay [and others]
| The cognitive science of science : explanation, discovery, and conceptual change / / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Scott Findlay [and others] |
| Autore | Thagard Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
| Disciplina | 501 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | FindlayScott |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Cognitive science |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology |
| ISBN |
0-262-30097-4
1-280-49923-0 9786613594464 0-262-30172-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction; Chapter 1. What Is the Cognitive Science of Science?; Explaining Science; Approaches to the Cognitive Science of Science; Methodology of Computational Modeling; Unified Cognitive Science Research; Other Approaches to Studying Science; Studies in the Cognitive Science of Science; Part II. Explanation and Justification; Chapter 2. Why Explanation Matters; Chapter 3. Models of Scientific Explanation; Explanation; Deductive Models; Schema and Analogy Models; Probabilistic Models; Neural Network Models; Causality; Conclusion
Chapter 4. How Brains Make Mental ModelsIntroduction; Mental Models; Abduction; Neural Representation and Processing; Neural Mental Models; Generating New Ideas and Hypotheses; Embodiment: Moderate and Extreme; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Changing Minds about Climate Change: Belief Revision, Coherence, and Emotion; Scientific Belief Revision; Climate Change; Coherence and Revision; Simulating Belief Revision about Climate Change; Simulating Resistance to Belief Revision; Alternative Theories of Belief Revision; Conclusion; Appendix Chapter 6. Coherence, Truth, and the Development of Scientific KnowledgeIntroduction; The Relation between Coherence and Truth; Explanatory Coherence; The Pessimistic Induction; Whewell ' s Overoptimistic Induction; Deepening and the Cautiously Optimistic Induction; Mechanisms and Explanation; Approximate Truth; Deepening the Deepening Maxim; Conclusion; Part III. Discovery and Creativity; Chapter 7. Why Discovery Matters; Chapter 8. The Aha! Experience: Creativity through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks; Creative Cognition; Creativity from Combination of Representations Neural Combination and BindingBinding by Convolution; Emotion and Creativity; Simulations; What Convolutions Are Creative?; Limitations; Comparisons with Related Work; Conclusion; Chapter 9. Creative Combination of Representations: Scientific Discovery and Technological Invention; Introduction; Study 1: Scientific Discovery; Study 2: Technological Invention; Objections to Combination; Conclusion; Appendix: Blind Variation; Chapter 10. Creativity in Computer Science; Introduction; Nature and Origins of Problems in Computer Science; Creative Analogies in Computer Science; Everyday Creativity The Casual Mode of CreativityComparison with Natural Science; Conclusion; Chapter 11. Patterns of Medical Discovery; Introduction; Medical Hypotheses; Logical Patterns; Psychological Patterns; Neural Patterns; Technological Patterns; Conclusion; Part IV. Conceptual Change; Chapter 12. Why Conceptual Change Matters; Chapter 13. Conceptual Change in the History of Science: Life, Mind, and Disease; Introduction; History and Philosophy of Science; Life; Disease; Mind; Conceptual Change; Chapter 14. Getting to Darwin: Obstacles to Accepting Evolution by Natural Selection; Introduction Cognitive Obstacles |
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Cooperation and its evolution / / edited by Kim Sterelny [and others]
| Cooperation and its evolution / / edited by Kim Sterelny [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, Eng., : MIT Press, ©2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (587 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SterelnyKim |
| Collana | Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Cooperation Evolutionary psychology Cooperativeness |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology |
| ISBN |
0-262-31304-9
1-299-22073-8 0-262-31303-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; I Agents and Environments; 1 The Evolution of Individualistic Norms; 2 Timescales, Symmetry, and Uncertainty Reduction in the Origins of Hierarchy in Biological Systems; 3 On Depending on Fish for a Living, and Other Difficulties of Living Sustainably; 4 Life in Interesting Times: Cooperation and Collective Action in the Holocene; 5 The Birth of Hierarchy; 6 Territoriality and Loss Aversion: The Evolutionary Roots of Property Rights; 7 Cooperation and Biological Markets: The Power of Partner Choice
8 False Advertising in Biological Markets: Partner Choice and the Problem of Reliability9 MHC-Mediated Benefits of Trade: A Biomolecular Approach to Cooperation in the Marketplace; 10 What We Don ' t Know about the Evolution of Cooperation in Animals; 11 Task Partitioning: Is It a Useful Concept?; 12 Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Toward a Richer Conceptual Framework; II Agents and Mechanisms; 13 Why the Proximate-Ultimate Distinction Is Misleading; 14 Emergence of a Signaling Network with Probe and Adjust 15 Bacterial Social Life: Information Processing Characteristics and Cooperation Coevolve16 Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission; 17 What Can Imitation Do for Cooperation?; 18 The Role of Learning in Punishment, Prosociality, and Human Uniqueness; 19 Our Pigheaded Core: How We Became Smarter to Be Influenced by Other People; 20 Altruistic Behaviors from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective; 21 Culture-Gene Coevolution, Large-Scale Cooperation, and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology; 22 Suicide Bombers, Weddings, and Prison Tattoos 23 Communicative Functions of Shame and Guilt24 Moral Disgust and the Tribal Instincts Hypothesis; 25 Evolution, Motivation, and Moral Beliefs; 26 The Many Moral Nativisms; Contributors; Index |
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| Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, Eng., : MIT Press, ©2013 | ||
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Creating scientific concepts / / Nancy Nersessian
| Creating scientific concepts / / Nancy Nersessian |
| Autore | Nersessian Nancy J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Soggetto topico |
Creative ability in science
Model-based reasoning Discoveries in science |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology |
| ISBN |
0-262-28054-X
1-4356-6565-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Creativity in conceptual change: a cognitive-historical approach -- Model-based reasoning practices: historical exemplar -- Model-based reasoning practices: protocol study exemplar -- The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning practices: mental modeling -- Representation and reasoning: analogy, imagery, thought experiment -- Creativity in conceptual change. |
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Nersessian Nancy J
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Information and living systems : philosophical and scientific perspectives / / edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp
| Information and living systems : philosophical and scientific perspectives / / edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (459 p.) |
| Disciplina | 570 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
TerzisGeorge <1951->
ArpRobert |
| Soggetto topico | Information theory in biology |
| Soggetto non controllato | PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology |
| ISBN |
1-283-11901-3
9786613119018 0-262-29524-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The need for a universal definition of life in twenty-first-century biology / Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo and Alvaro Moreno -- Energy coupling / Yaşar Demirel -- Bioinformation as a triadic relation / Alfredo Marcos -- The biosemiotic approach in biology : theoretical bases and applied models / João Queiroz ... [et al.] -- Problem solving in the life cycles of multicellular organisms : immunology and cancer / Niall Shanks and Rebecca A. Pyles -- The informational nature of biological causality / Alvaro Moreno and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo -- The self-construction of a living organism / Natalia López-Moratella and María Cerezo -- Plasticity and complexity in biology : topological organization, regulatory protein networks, and mechanisms of genetic expression / Luciano Boi -- Decision making in the economy of nature : value as information / Benoit Hardy-Vallee -- Information theory and perception : the role of constraints, and what do we maximize information about? / Roland Baddeley, Benjamin Vincent, and David Attewell -- Attention, information, and epistemic perception / Nicolas J. Bullot -- Biolinguistics and information / Cedric Boeckx and Juan Uriagereka -- The biology of personality / Aurelio Jose Figueredo ... [et al.]. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789569803321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
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Ingenious genes : how gene regulation networks evolve to control development / / Roger Sansom
| Ingenious genes : how gene regulation networks evolve to control development / / Roger Sansom |
| Autore | Sansom Roger |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (141 p.) |
| Disciplina | 572.8/65 |
| Collana | Life and mind : philosophical issues in biology and psychology |
| Soggetto topico | Genetic regulation - Computer simulation |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-29726-4
1-283-30272-1 9786613302724 0-262-29820-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The problem of the evolvability of gene regulation networks -- Are gene regulation networks evolvable? -- Kauffman's framework for gene regulation -- The connectionist framework for gene regulation -- Why gene regulation networks are the controllers of development. |
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Sansom Roger
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
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Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution / / edited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband, and Merritt Roe Smith
| Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution / / edited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband, and Merritt Roe Smith |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.9/034 |
| Collana | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Industrial revolution
Industrialization Economic history Technological innovations - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology |
| ISBN |
1-282-97843-8
9786612978432 0-262-28950-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Deconstructing the British Industrial Revolution as a Conjuncture and Paradigm for Global Economic History; 3 The British Product Revolution of the Eighteenth Century; 4 The European Enlightenment and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth; 5 Avoiding Revolution; 6 The Political Economy of Early Industrialization in German Europe; 7 Reconceptualizing Industrialization in Scandinavia; 8 Crafting the Industrial Revolution; 9 Taking Stock of the Industrial Revolution in America; 10 The Many Transitions of Ebenezer Stedman
11 Reconceptualizing Russia's Industrial Revolution12 Financing Brazil's Industrialization; 13 Trade and Industry in the Indian Subcontinent; 14 Cultural Engineering and the Industrialization of Japan; 15 What Price Empire?; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791655903321 |
| Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2010] | ||
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Without criteria : Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and aesthetics / / Steven Shaviro
| Without criteria : Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and aesthetics / / Steven Shaviro |
| Autore | Shaviro Steven |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | xv, 173 p |
| Disciplina | 192 |
| Collana | Technologies of lived abstraction |
| Soggetto topico | Aesthetics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies |
| ISBN |
0-262-26115-4
9786612240492 0-262-25516-2 1-282-24049-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Without criteria -- Actual entities and eternal objects -- Pulses of emotion -- Interstitial life -- God, or the body without organs -- Consequences. |
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Shaviro Steven
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 | ||
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