BESTSELLER BOOKS
- Auteur : Peter Watts
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Macmillan
- Nombre de pages : 384
Blindsight is the Hugo Award–nominated novel by Peter Watts, "a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive" (The Globe and Mail). Two months have past since a myriad of alien objects clen ...
- Auteur : Matt Johnson,Prince Ghuman
- Genre : Business & Economics
- Editeur : BenBella Books
- Nombre de pages : 243
Ever notice that all watch ads show 10:10 as the time? Or that all fast-food restaurants use red or yellow in their logos? Or that certain stores are always having a sale? You may not be aware of these details, yet they've be ...
- Auteur : Robin Cook
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Penguin
- Nombre de pages : 352
Robin Cook is back—with a shocking story of medical conspiracy. Today, organ transplants are common miracles of science. But if the supply cannot meet the demand, how far will people go to find donors? Dr. Laurie Montgomery ...
- Auteur : Robin Cook
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Penguin
- Nombre de pages : 480
Behind the headlines on cloning--Dr. Robin Cook blends fact with fiction in one of his most terrifying bestsellers... Chromosome 6 is a prophetic thriller that challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning ...
- Auteur : Karin Slaughter
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Dell
- Nombre de pages : 416
“Powerful and complex . . . [Karin] Slaughter gradually unspools her fascinating story, all the way up to its shocking conclusion.”—Chicago Sun-Times In a small Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams is accused of a vicious ...
- Auteur : N.a
- Genre : Computers
- Editeur : Elsevier
- Nombre de pages : 522
Psychology is the study of thinking, and cognitive science is the interdisciplinary investigation of mind and intelligence that also includes philosophy, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. I ...
- Auteur : Peter Watts
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Macmillan
- Nombre de pages : 384
Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back fro ...
- Auteur : Greg Hewett
- Genre : Poetry
- Editeur : Coffee House Press
- Nombre de pages : 112
Praise for Greg Hewett: 2010 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry 2003 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Winner In poems that are full of wit, touching, and introspective, as well as formally inventive, w ...
- Auteur : Declan Smithies
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Oxford University Press
- Nombre de pages : 457
What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves and the world around us. On th ...
- Auteur : Tina Wainscott
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Written Musings
- Nombre de pages : 435
A young girl is missing, and her only hope is a blind woman who can see through her eyes... Eight-year-old Phaedra Burns has been kidnapped by a madman who believes her sacrifice will assuage his rage. Olivia Howe knows that ...
- Auteur : Robert Hanna
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : OUP Oxford
- Nombre de pages : 464
In Cognition, Content, and the A Priori, Robert Hanna works out a unified contemporary Kantian theory of rational human cognition and knowledge. Along the way, he provides accounts of (i) intentionality and its contents, incl ...
- Auteur : Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Celadon Books
- Nombre de pages : 411
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family b ...
- Auteur : Harmen Ghijsen
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Springer
- Nombre de pages : 165
This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary theories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factors related to perception, i.e., conscious experience, higher-order beliefs, an ...
- Auteur : Peter Watts
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Macmillan
- Nombre de pages : 384
Second in the Rifters Trilogy, Hugo Award-winning author Peter Watts' Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir. This is the way the world ends: A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient micro ...
- Auteur : Tom L. Beauchamp,(1941-2012) R.G. Frey
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Oxford University Press
- Nombre de pages : N.A
Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume. Philosophers have long been i ...
- Auteur : Karin Slaughter
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Delacorte Press
- Nombre de pages : 400
“Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense,” raved the Washington Post. “A new synonym for terror,” crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuri ...
- Auteur : Peter Watts
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Macmillan
- Nombre de pages : 320
A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand ...
- Auteur : Adam Pautz,Daniel Stoljar
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : MIT Press
- Nombre de pages : 648
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he i ...
- Auteur : William Seager
- Genre : Science
- Editeur : Springer Science & Business Media
- Nombre de pages : 264
The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon jus ...
- Auteur : Lilly Mirren
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Black Lab Press
- Nombre de pages : 356
Set against the backdrop of the golden sands and crystal clear waters of Cabarita Beach three sisters inherit an inn and discover a mystery about their grandmother's past that changes everything they thought they knew of thei ...
- Auteur : Pietro Snider
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
- Nombre de pages : 257
The “Natural Problem of Consciousness” is the problem of understanding why there are presently conscious beings at all. Given a non-reductive naturalist framework taking consciousness as an ontologically subjective biolog ...
- Auteur : Dietmar H. Heidemann
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Routledge
- Nombre de pages : 222
Conceptualism is the view that cognizers can have mental representations of the world only if they possess the adequate concepts by means of which they can specify what they represent. By contrast, non-conceptualism is the vi ...
- Auteur : Carol O'Connell
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Penguin
- Nombre de pages : 336
Formerly a child of the streets, now a brilliant computer hacker and NYPD sergeant, Kathleen Mallory's powerful intelligence is matched only by the ferocity with which she pursues her own unpredictable vision of right and wro ...
- Auteur : Mark Rowlands
- Genre : History
- Editeur : Oxford University Press
- Nombre de pages : 256
Can animals be persons? To this question, scientific and philosophical consensus has taken the form of a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. Tak ...
- Auteur : Peter Carruthers
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Clarendon Press
- Nombre de pages : 260
Peter Carruthers's essays on consciousness and related issues have had a substantial impact on the field, and many of his best are now collected here in revised form. The first half of the volume is devoted to developing, ela ...
- Auteur : Dylan Dodd,Elia Zardini
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : OUP Oxford
- Nombre de pages : 336
One of the hardest problems in the history of Western philosophy has been to explain whether and how experience can provide knowledge (or even justification for belief) about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind ...
- Auteur : John Campbell
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Clarendon Press
- Nombre de pages : 278
Campbell investigates how consciousness of the world explains our ability to think about the world. He illuminates problems about thought, reference and experience by looking at the psychological mechanisms on which conscious ...
- Auteur : Meg Howrey
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Vintage
- Nombre de pages : 304
This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and two precocious hal ...
- Auteur : Karin Slaughter
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Delacorte Press
- Nombre de pages : 400
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Features a new introduction on the origins of the Will Trent novels and Triptych’s place in the series From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has ...
- Auteur : Uriah Kriegel
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : OUP Oxford
- Nombre de pages : 340
Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious. What is the difference between the two? Uriah Kriegel offers the following answer: whatever else they may represent, conscious mental states always represent themselves ...
- Auteur : Renate Bartsch
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing
- Nombre de pages : 258
This study of the workings of neural networks in perception and understanding of situations and simple sentences shows that, and how, distributed conceptual constituents are bound together in episodes within an interactive/dy ...
- Auteur : Mohan Matthen
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : OUP Oxford
- Nombre de pages : 944
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introducti ...
- Auteur : Christopher Mole,Declan Smithies,Wayne Wu
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Oxford University Press
- Nombre de pages : 368
Attention has been studied in cognitive psychology for more than half a century, but until recently it was largely neglected in philosophy. Now, however, attention has been recognized by philosophers of mind as having an impo ...
- Auteur : Robert BRANDOM
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Harvard University Press
- Nombre de pages : 240
Robert B. Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analy ...
- Auteur : Karin Slaughter
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Delacorte Press
- Nombre de pages : 416
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Karin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). Now she delivers her first stand-alone ...
- Auteur : Eric Dietrich,Valerie Gray Hardcastle
- Genre : Psychology
- Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing
- Nombre de pages : 136
Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore, to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory beca ...
- Auteur : J. Christopher Maloney
- Genre : Philosophy
- Editeur : Oxford University Press
- Nombre de pages : 352
Naturalistic cognitive science, when realistically rendered, rightly maintains that to think is to deploy contentful mental representations. Accordingly, conscious perception, memory, and anticipation are forms of cognition t ...
- Auteur : Karin Slaughter
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : HarperCollins
- Nombre de pages : 496
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."— theSkimm Recommended by Washington Post • theSkimm • GMA.com ...
- Auteur : Peter Watts
- Genre : Fiction
- Editeur : Tor Books
- Nombre de pages : 32
Colonel Keaton is in trouble. His wife has retreated into a virtual heaven and his son remains missing after joining an extrasolar mission to track down an alien race. He is presently tasked by his superiors with the threat a ...