Cognitive science of belief

Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Fundamentals of Cognitive Science

Fundamentals of Cognitive Science draws on research from psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and neuroscience to provide an

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Science, Life And Christian Belief

Science, Life and Christian Belief is an overview of the 'two books' of God - nature and Scripture - showing they give complementary descriptions of o

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Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

A philosophical analysis of cognitive science, which is an enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind, spanning several other discipli

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Advances In Cognitive Science

This book includes a collection of papers on both natural (biological) and artificial (computer) approaches to several facets of intelligent behavior

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Heidegger and Cognitive Science

This impressive volume of essays that includes contributions from Hubert Dreyfus, Mike Wheeler and Shaun Gallagher reflects an emerging trend in cogni

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Biology of Belief

Using simple language, illustrations, humour and everyday examples, the author demonstrates how the science of epigenetics is revolutionizing our unde

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Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science

This volume offers an overview of the philosophy of cognitive science that balances breadth and depth, with chapters covering every aspect of the psyc

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Science and Practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Psychological treatments have proved very effective in treating a spectrum of psychiatric syndromes. This book provides a useful examination of the sc

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Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion

In recent decades, a new scientific approach to understand many features of religion has emerged with profound implications for how we understand reli

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Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion

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Belief in God in an Age of Science

John Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist and theologian, explores the possibilities of believing in God in an age of science. In this study, Polkingho

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Cognitive Neurorehabilitation

Now available in paperback, this updated new edition summarizes the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience related to rehabilitation, reviews the principles of successful interventions and synthesizes new findings about the rehabilitation of cognitive changes in a variety of populations. With greatly expanded sections on treatment and the role of imaging, it provid...

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Structures Meres: Semantics, Mathematics, and Cognitive Science

This book reports on cutting-edge concepts related to BourbakiÂ’s notion of structures mres.

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Buddhism, Cognitive Science, and the Doctrine of Selflessness

This book examines the relationship between Buddhist philosophy and scientific psychology by focusing on the doctrine of No-self. A novel contribution

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Science among the Ottomans

The first book on the topic in English in over sixty years, Science among the Ottomans contends that, contrary to the generally accepted belief that t

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CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami

Is CBT all it claims to be? The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science provides a powerful critique of

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Cognitive Risk Taylor & Francis Ltd

Cognitive Risk is a book about the least understood, but most pervasive risk to mankind – cognitive risks. Cognitive risks are subconscious and unconscious influence factors on human decision-making: heuristics and biases. To understand the scope of cognitive risk we look at case studies, corporate and organizational failure and the science that explains why we systemical...

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Cognitive Risk Taylor & Francis Ltd

Cognitive Risk is a book about the least understood, but most pervasive risk to mankind – cognitive risks. Cognitive risks are subconscious and unconscious influence factors on human decision-making: heuristics and biases. To understand the scope of cognitive risk we look at case studies, corporate and organizational failure and the science that explains why we systemical...

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Troublesome Science

Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall explain how science has been misused to sustain belief in the biological basis of racial classification. Troublesome Sc

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Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order

Examines the relevance and significance of Hayek's cognitive psychology for economics and social science.

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God in the Age of Science?

Herman Philipse puts forward a powerful new critique of belief in God. He examines the strategies that have been used for the philosophical defence of

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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition

Now updated: the definitive neuroscience resource from Eric R. Kandel, MD (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2000); James H. Schwartz, MD, PhD; Thomas M. Jessell, PhD; Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD; and A. J. Hudspeth, PhD § 900 full-color illustrations§Deciphering the link between the human brain and behavior has always been one of the most intriguing and often challenging aspect...

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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (0099598477)

Kniha - autor Anders Ericsson; Robert Pool, 304 stran, anglicky - autor Anders Ericsson; Robert Pool, 304 stran, anglicky Anders Ericsson has spent three decades studying the geniuses and sports stars amongst us and reveals in "Peak" that, contrary to popular belief, we all have that same potential within us, it's just a question of exercising it and having a little gui...

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Perfect Meal - The Multisensory Science of Food and Dining

The authors of The Perfect Meal examine all of the elements that contribute to the diner's experience of a meal (primarily at a restaurant) and investigate how each of the diner's senses contributes to their overall multisensory experience. The principal focus of the book is not on flavor perception, but on all of the non-food and beverage factors that have been shown t...

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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity - Attia Peter

Anotace: - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -This is the ultimate manual for living better and longer.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer`s disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, pro...

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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (0007547994)

Kniha - autor Brian Christian; Tom Griffiths, 364 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, from the acclaimed author of "The Most Human Human" and a cognitive scientist.

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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, 1. vydání - Peter Attia

<p>- THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -This is the ultimate manual for living better and longer.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prol...

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Meaning of the Body

Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By". This work concludes

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Beyond Nature and Culture

Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology,

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Evolution of the Soul

Men have evolved from animals, and animals from inanimate matter, but what has evolved is qualitatively different from the inanimate matter from which it began. Both men and the higher animals have a mental life of sensation, thought, purpose, desire, and belief. Although these mental states in part cause, and are caused by, brain states, they are distinct from them. Rich...

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The Three-Body Problem (178497157X)

Kniha - autor Cixin Liu, 416 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Cixin Liu, 416 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná 1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life ...

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The Three-Body Problem

1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, Beijing police ask nanotech engin...

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Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes

The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes provides a unique and integrative introduction to dream science. It addresses a notable gap in cognitive psy

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality - Šafařík Josef

Anotace: Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and te...

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A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter. In particular, it is unfit for linguistics and cognitive science, where it is ultimately self-destructive, since it fails to account for causality, while the mind, the primary object of research of the human sciences, canno...

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The Origin of Species - Darwin Charles

Anotace: With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace.`A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...`.Darwin`s theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those...

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The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

<p>With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace. 'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for thos...

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Astrology. The Library of Esoterica - Jessica Hundley

<p>Looking to the sky, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series delves into the vibrant visual history of Western astrology. From its birth as astronomy’s sister science, to our current Age of Aquarius, the story of this ancient practice is told through more than 400 images—from Egyptian temples to contemporary art—sequenced to mirror the spin of t...

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Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Objectivity - Jitka Paitlová

<p>Objectivity is an essential concept with a convoluted history in both philosophy and science. Th is book presents a theoretical analysis and contemporary revision of the concept with the help of experimental philosophy. In recent years, experimental philosophy has substantially enriched philosophy by adopting methods from sociology, psychology and cognitive scien...

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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture Taylor & Francis Ltd

Comprised of 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, this is the first handbook of its kind. Individual topics include art and cognitive science, evolutionary origins of art, art and perception, pictorial realism, artistic taste, style, issues of race and gender, art and religion, art and philosophy, and the end of art....

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Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny - Tomasello Michael

Anotace: "A landmark in our understanding of human development."?Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You´re Told"Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can...be identified."?Wall Street JournalVirtually all theories of how humans have bec...

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality - Montell Amanda

Anotace: In the modern information age, our brain`s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical overthinking. "Magical thinking" can be broadly defined as th...

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality - Amanda Montell

<p>In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical overthinking. "Magical thinking" can be broadly de...

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Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Objectivity (978-80-7465-552-4)

Kniha - autor Petr Jedlička; Jitka Paitlová, 278 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Objectivity is an essential concept with a convoluted history in both philosophy and science. Th is book presents a theoretical analysis and contemporary revision of the concept with the help of experimental philosophy. In recent years, experimental philosophy has substantiall...

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Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Objectivity - Petr Jedlička; Jitka Paitlová

Anotace: Objectivity is an essential concept with a convoluted history in both philosophy and science. Th is book presents a theoretical analysis and contemporary revision of the concept with the help of experimental philosophy. In recent years, experimental philosophy has substantially enriched philosophy by adopting methods from sociology, psychology and cognitive scie...

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Explicit English Teaching

The essential overview on applying smart ideas from cognitive science to the teaching of secondary English.

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Studying the Religious Mind

This book consists of selected papers from the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion and the Journal of Cognitive Historiography. Each chapter

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I-Language

The book introduces the major branches of theoretical linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics - in the context of cognitive science, wi

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Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition

Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition presents a timely introduction to methodologies of cognitive science from a theoretical perspective.

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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Representational Pluralism in Human Cognition

Bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions from the fields of social and cognitive psychology, philosophy, and science educatio

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Game On!

Bell's careful analysis of the theories behind gamification, cognitive science, and instructional design will help them to do just that.

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Spiritual Path

The author of the international bestseller Shantaram takes us on a gripping personal journey of wonder and insight into science, belief, faith and dev

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Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories Taylor & Francis Ltd

Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs....

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Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories Taylor & Francis Ltd

Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs....

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Tapping In

A unique, science-meets-spirituality plan, Tapping In provides readers with the blueprint they need to reach a new place of self-belief through tappin

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Where Mathematics Come From

Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nunez in the first book to provide a serious study of the cognitive science of mathemat

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Recursion

The book examines one of the most contested topics in linguistics and cognitive science: the role of recursion in language. It offers a precise accoun

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Philosophy In The Flesh

Three major findings of cognitive science cast doubt on the past 2,500 years of Western philosophy. Lakoff and Johnson propose to rebuild philosophy f

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Constructing a Language

Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science

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