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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael T. TurveyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.703kg ISBN: 9781138335264ISBN 10: 1138335266 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 05 November 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Table of Contents Part 1: Foundational Concepts What Kinds of Systems Do We Study? Organism-Environment Dualism Direct Perceiving, Indirect Perceiving Simulative, Projective and Locality Assumptions The Mechanistic Hypothesis The Cartesian Program Empiricism and the Man in the Inner Room The Space Enigmas I: Berkeley The Space Enigmas II: Kant, the Nature of Geometry, and the Geometry of Nature The Space Enigmas III: Local Signs and Geometrical Empiricism Doctrines of Sensations and Unconscious Inferences The Space Enigmas. IV: On Learning Space Perception Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism and Mechanistic Order Gestalt Theory II: Fields, Self-organization, and the Invariance Postulate of Evolution Gestalt Theory III: Experience Error, CNS Error, Psycho-neural Isomorphism, Behavioral Environment Part 2: Computational-Representational Perspective The Computational-Representational Perspective: Preliminaries Pattern Recognition and Representation Bearers Turing Reductionism, Token Physicalism: The Computational System Assumption Reflections on the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis Part 3: Ecological Perspective Ecology: The Science that Reasons Why Barriers to Ecological Realism Ontology at the Ecological Scale Ecological Optics Primer Perceiving ""How to Get About Among Things"" The Mechanical Basis for ""Getting About Among Things"" Strong Anticipation and Direct Perception"ReviewsMichael Turvey is the leading exponent of a physical biology of intentional systems for all creatures great and nano. In these interwoven lectures, he charts a path to a thoroughly scientific psychology, grounded in philosophy, ecology, thermodynamics, and the theory of complex systems. Developed over the course of an esteemed career, Turvey's radical vision (in the sense of going to the root) throws down the gauntlet for the next generation of students of perceiving, acting, and knowing.William H. Warren, Chancellor's Professor of Cognitive Science, Brown University Michael Turvey is the leading exponent of a physical biology of intentional systems for all creatures great and nano. In these interwoven lectures, he charts a path to a thoroughly scientific psychology, grounded in philosophy, ecology, thermodynamics, and the theory of complex systems. Developed over the course of an esteemed career, Turvey’s radical vision (in the sense of going to the root) throws down the gauntlet for the next generation of students of perceiving, acting, and knowing.William H. Warren, Chancellor’s Professor of Cognitive Science, Brown University Author InformationMichael T. Turvey is Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in Connecticut. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Catell Fellowships, the American Psychological Association Early Career Award, Fellow of Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), Bernstein 2009 Prize in Motor Control, SEP Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Psychological Science Lifetime Mentor Award, and two honorary doctorates. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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