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

Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description xi, 186 p. : ill.
Series Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 1
Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Evolution -- Philosophy.
Cognition -- Philosophy.
Rationalism.
Cognitive science -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Zilhao, Antonio, 1960-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0415362601
0203012917 (Master e-book)
9780415362603
9780203012918

 
    
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