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9780198752615 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 1, 2000, cover price $65.95
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9780521771818 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $110.00
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9780521777421 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $39.99
What distinguishes clever computers from stupid people (besides their components)? The author of Seeing and Knowing presents in his new book a beautifully and persuasively written interdisciplinary approach to traditional problemsâa clearsighted interpretation of information theory. Psychologists, biologists, computer scientists, and those seeking a general unified picture of perceptual-cognitive activity will find this provocative reading. The problems Dretske addresses in Knowledge and the Flow of InformationâWhat is knowledge? How are the sensory and cognitive processes related? What makes mental activities mental?âappeal to a wide audience. The conceptual tools used to deal with these questions (information, noise, analog versus digital coding, etc.) are designed to make contact with, and exploit the findings of, empirical work in the cognitive sciences. A concept of information is developed, one deriving from (but not identical with) the Shannon idea familiar to communication theorists, in terms of which the analyses of knowledge, perception, learning, and meaning are expressed. The book is materialistic in spiritâthat is, spiritedly materialisticâdevoted to the view that mental states and processes are merely special ways physical systems have of processing, coding, and using information. (view table of contents)
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9780262040631 | 1 edition (Bradford Books, June 1, 1981), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: What distinguishes clever computers from stupid people (besides their components)?
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9781575861951 | Stanford Univ Center for the Study, March 1, 1999, cover price $30.00
9780061006692, titled "Spill" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 1993), cover price $4.99 | also contains Knowledge and the Flow of Information, Spill | About this edition: When a tanker truck carrying a strain of hemorrhagic fever virus crashes into a creekbed on state park land, an army of government-approved assassins, bent on covering up the scandal, sets out to kill the people vacationing there.
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9780262041492 | Bradford Books, July 1, 1995, cover price $27.00
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9780262540896 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, August 1, 1997), cover price $28.00
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9780028608747, titled "Frommer''s 96 Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque" | Frommer, June 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | also contains Frommer''s 96 Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque | About this edition: Suggests lodging, restaurants, and sightseeing highlights along with travel, shopping, and entertainment tips
9780262540612 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, February 5, 1991), cover price $23.00
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