Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Peter Watts
- Publisher : Macmillan
- Number of Pages : 384 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Business & Economics
- Author : Matt Johnson,Prince Ghuman
- Publisher : BenBella Books
- Number of Pages : 288 Pages
Book Summary : “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 ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Karin Slaughter
- Publisher : Dell
- Number of Pages : 416 Pages
Book Summary : This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia. Phenomenal properties or qualia are p ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Leopold Stubenberg
- Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
- Number of Pages : 368 Pages
Book Summary : “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 ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Karin Slaughter
- Publisher : Delacorte Press
- Number of Pages : 400 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Declan Smithies
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Number of Pages : 288 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Robert Hanna
- Publisher : OUP Oxford
- Number of Pages : 464 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Computers
- Author : N.a
- Publisher : Elsevier
- Number of Pages : 522 Pages
Book Summary : NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A complex, gripping and deadly serious novel that reflects anew Slaughter's abundant talent.”—The Washington Post “An amazing effort . . . This is [Karin] Slaughter’s best book to date, an ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Karin Slaughter
- Publisher : Delacorte Press
- Number of Pages : 400 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Harmen Ghijsen
- Publisher : Springer
- Number of Pages : 165 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Tom L. Beauchamp,(1941-2012) R.G. Frey
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Number of Pages : N.A Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Karin Slaughter
- Publisher : Delacorte Press
- Number of Pages : 416 Pages
Book Summary : From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food if doing so gave another monkey an electric shock, there is mu ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Mark Rowlands
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Number of Pages : 272 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Peter Watts
- Publisher : Macmillan
- Number of Pages : 384 Pages
Book Summary : On a cliff edge overlooking the North Sea, a quadriplegic woman in a wheelchair stares unseeingly at the waves. She had been murdered. And, miles away, in a storeroom in the Maze, a medieval warren of yards and alleys at the ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Peter Robinson
- Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
- Number of Pages : 376 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Adam Pautz,Daniel Stoljar
- Publisher : MIT Press
- Number of Pages : 648 Pages
Book Summary : Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theo ...
- Genre : Art
- Author : M. Newall
- Publisher : Springer
- Number of Pages : 234 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Science
- Author : William Seager
- Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
- Number of Pages : 264 Pages
Book Summary : Piece of My Heart is Peter Robinson’s outstanding sixteenth novel in the acclaimed Inspector Banks series. Richly textured with the music and conflicting mores of 1960s Britain, the story weaves between two eras as it explo ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Peter Robinson
- Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
- Number of Pages : 480 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Karin Slaughter
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- Number of Pages : 448 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Pietro Snider
- Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
- Number of Pages : 257 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Dietmar H. Heidemann
- Publisher : Routledge
- Number of Pages : 222 Pages
Book Summary : B is for Burglar, from Sue Grafton's #1 New York Times bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet mystery series Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compu ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Sue Grafton
- Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
- Number of Pages : 230 Pages
Book Summary : Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspect ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : James Patterson
- Publisher : Little, Brown
- Number of Pages : 432 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : History
- Author : Mark Rowlands
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Number of Pages : 256 Pages
Book Summary : When innocent blood is spilled, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan deciphers the shattering truth it holds in this exciting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs. Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussa ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Kathy Reichs
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Number of Pages : 336 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Uriah Kriegel
- Publisher : OUP Oxford
- Number of Pages : 340 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Peter Carruthers
- Publisher : Clarendon Press
- Number of Pages : 260 Pages
Book Summary : THE FIRST NOVEL IN LEE CHILD'S #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES—NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON PRIME VIDEO! “From its jolting opening scene to its fiery final confrontation, Killing Floor is irresistible.” ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Lee Child
- Publisher : Penguin
- Number of Pages : 560 Pages
Book Summary : Fourteen-year-old Natalie O'Reilly's world is turned upside down with the news that she will soon go blind. As if this weren't shocking enough, she is forced to face the fact that she must now attend a school for the blind to ...
- Genre : Juvenile Fiction
- Author : Priscilla Cummings
- Publisher : Penguin
- Number of Pages : 256 Pages
Book Summary : Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor and C. J. Sansom will absolutely love this gripping page-turner of a historical mystery from multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Full of twists, turns and tensi ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Lindsey Davis
- Publisher : Random House
- Number of Pages : 352 Pages
Book Summary : NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A desperate manhunt ensues for a killer who preys upon his victims’ minds—just before he claims their lives—in this blockbuster novel from #1 bestselling author Lisa Gardner. What do you do ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Lisa Gardner
- Publisher : Bantam
- Number of Pages : 352 Pages
Book Summary : Seeing, Doing, and Knowing is an original and comprehensive philosophical treatment of sense perception as it is currently investigated by cognitive neuroscientists. Its central theme is the task-oriented specialization of se ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Mohan Matthen
- Publisher : Clarendon Press
- Number of Pages : 384 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Dylan Dodd,Elia Zardini
- Publisher : OUP Oxford
- Number of Pages : 336 Pages
Book Summary : 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 ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : John Campbell
- Publisher : Clarendon Press
- Number of Pages : 278 Pages
Book Summary : This “intricate…extravagant thriller with a paranormal tinge” (Publishers Weekly)” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter finds Savich and Sherlock confronting two baffling mysteries. A young wife i ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Catherine Coulter
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Number of Pages : 480 Pages
Book Summary : “If you’re into mystery thrillers, then you’re into Karin Slaughter.” —THESKIMM He watches. He waits. He takes. Who will be next . . . THE SILENT WIFE Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a s ...
- Genre : Fiction
- Author : Karin Slaughter
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- Number of Pages : 496 Pages
Book Summary : Philosophy of mind is one of the most dynamic fields in philosophy, and one that invites debate around several key questions. There currently exist annotated tomes of primary sources, and a handful of single-authored introduc ...
- Genre : Philosophy
- Author : Uriah Kriegel
- Publisher : Routledge
- Number of Pages : 256 Pages
Book Summary : What turns the continuous flow of experience into perceptually distinct objects? Can our verbal descriptions unambiguously capture what it is like to see, hear, or feel? How might we reason about the testimony that perception ...
- Genre : Religion
- Author : Christian Coseru
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Number of Pages : 384 Pages