Books: 'Symbolic comprehension'

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Logical dynamics of information and interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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1962-, Eklund Peter W., ed. Concept lattices: Second international conference on formal concept analysis , ICFCA 2004, Sydney, Australia, February 23-26, 2004 : proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 2004.

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Raoul, Medina, and Obiedkov Sergei, eds. Formal concept analysis: 6th international conference, ICFCA 2008, Montreal, Canada, February 25-28, 2008 ; proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 2008.

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Ganter, Bernhard. Formale Begriffsanalyse: Mathematische Grundlagen. Berlin: Springer, 1996.

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International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (2nd 2004 Sydney, N.S.W.). Concept lattices: Second International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2004, Sydney, Australia, February 23-26, 2004 : proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 2004.

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R, Missaoui, and Schmid Jürg 1944-, eds. Formal concept analysis: 4th international conference, ICFCA 2006, Dresden, Germany, February 13-17, 2006 : proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 2006.

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Rudolf, Wille, ed. Formal concept analysis: Mathematical foundations. Berlin: Springer, 1999.

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Symbolism: A comprehensive dictionary. 2nd ed. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., 2012.

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Symbolism: A comprehensive dictionary. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1986.

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International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (9th 2011 Nicosia, Cyprus). Formal concept analysis: 9th international conference, ICFCA 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2-6, 2011 : proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 2011.

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W, Lloyd J. Logic for learning: Learning comprehensive theories from structured data. New York: Springer, 2003.

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Bugnion, François. Towards a comprehensive solution to the question of the emblem. 3rd ed. Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross, 2000.

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Newton, Natika. Foundations of understanding. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996.

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(Editor), Bernhard Ganter, and Robert Godin (Editor), eds. Formal Concept Analysis: Third International Conference, ICFCA 2005, Lens, France, February 14-18, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer, 2005.

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Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations. Springer, 2011.

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Wille, Rudolf, Bernhard Ganter, and Gerd Stumme. Formal Concept Analysis: Foundations and Applications. Springer London, Limited, 2005.

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Godin, Robert, and Bernhard Ganter. Formal Concept Analysis: Third International Conference, ICFCA 2005, Lens, France, February 14-18, 2005, Proceedings. Springer London, Limited, 2006.

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Glodeanu, Cynthia Vera, Mehdi Kaytoue, and Christian Sacarea. Formal Concept Analysis: 12th International Conference, ICFCA 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania , June 10-13, 2014. Proceedings. Springer London, Limited, 2014.

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Sacarea, Christian, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, and Jaume Baixeries. Formal Concept Analysis: 13th International Conference, ICFCA 2015, Nerja, Spain, June 23-26, 2015, Proceedings. Springer, 2015.

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Sacarea, Christian, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, and Jaume Baixeries. Formal Concept Analysis: 13th International Conference, ICFCA 2015, Nerja, Spain, June 23-26, 2015, Proceedings. Springer, 2015.

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Formal Concept Analysis: 12th International Conference, ICFCA 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania , June 10-13, 2014. Proceedings. Springer, 2014.

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Formal Concept Analysis 8th International Conference Proceedings. Springer, 2010.

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(Editor), Bernhard Ganter, Gerd Stumme (Editor), and Rudolf Wille (Editor), eds. Formal Concept Analysis: Foundations and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer, 2005.

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Eklund, Peter. Concept Lattices: Second International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2004, Sydney, Australia, February 23-26, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer, 2004.

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Eklund, Peter. Concept Lattices: Second International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2004, Sydney, Australia, February 23-26, 2004, Proceedings. Springer London, Limited, 2011.

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Neves, Marcelo. Symbolic Constitutionalization. Translated by Kevin Mundy. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857149.001.0001.

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The subject of this book is the social and political meaning of constitutional texts to the detriment of their legal concretization. In other words, it focuses on the discrepancy between the hypertrophically symbolic function of constitutions and their insufficient legal concretization. It offers a critical counterpoint to constitutional theory that treats constitutional texts as a panacea to solving political, legal, and social problems. The symbolic constitutionalization is approached in a comprehensive perspective and in contrast to certain premises of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory in regard to law and constitution in the world society. Chapter 1 sets out the debate about symbolic legislation. Chapter 2 explains the notion of symbolic constitutionalization as a problem embracing the whole legal system. Chapter 3 approaches the issue in terms of allopoiesis of law, characterizing it primarily as a problem in peripheral modernity and referring to the Brazilian experience. The final chapter discusses the tendency to a symbolic constitutionalization of world society in the scope of a paradoxical peripheralization of the center.

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Westphal, James, and Sun Hyun Park. Symbolic Management. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792055.001.0001.

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This book presents the symbolic management perspective as a comprehensive, behavioral theory of corporate governance. It describes a pervasive pattern of symbolic decoupling, or separation between appearances and reality, at each level of the governance system. The processes of governance are less efficient or effective than they appear, at every level: from interpersonal relations within organizations, such as relations between chief executive officers and directors and between top managers and lower-level employees, between firm leaders and external stakeholders, and between communities of leaders and groups of constituents. There is even a separation between appearances and reality at the level of the governance system. Symbolic management comprises the agentic practices by which decoupling is maintained at different levels of the system, including internal and external communications by firm leaders that conform to prevailing cultural values. The symbolic management perspective not only provides an integrative, behavioral alternative to economic theories of governance such as agency theory, but it subsumes economic theory. Agency theory is reconceived as a historically contingent, institutional logic, or a set of cultural values, assumptions, and prescriptions that became taken for granted among key stakeholders for a period of time. We reveal a gradual shift in institutional logics of governance, away from the traditional agency logic, and toward an alternative “neo-corporate” logic that reinterprets agency prescriptions and drops fundamental economic assumptions of agency theory. Our theory and research ultimately demonstrate how the symbolic management activities of firm leaders have contributed to this historical shift in prevailing logics of governance.

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McNeil, Bryan T. Gender, Solidarity, and Symbolic Capital. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036439.003.0008.

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This chapter considers the significance of prominent women's leadership in the movement to stop mountaintop removal. The prominence of women in leadership positions is a signature characteristic of Appalachian community activism, including the CRMW and the Friends of the Mountains (FOM) networks. However, the role of women is related to the decline of the union and the shifting sites of organizing within the community. Though women have always been active in social issues in the coalfields, the union's historically dominant role in organizing activism limited women's ability to rise to leadership positions. Organizing outside of the union affords women greater flexibility to link together social issues that a labor perspective may not have addressed directly. As such, women are able to forge a more comprehensive approach to social justice built upon different symbolic capital foundations.

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Wille, Rudolf, and Bernhard Ganter. Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations. Springer, 1998.

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Achim, Eschbach, ed. Perspektiven des Verstehens. Bochum: Studienverlag N. Brockmeyer, 1986.

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Russian military mapping: A guide to using the most comprehensive source of global geospatial intelligence. Minneapolis, Minn: East View Cartographic, 2005.

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The Logo Brainstorm Book A Comprehensive Guide For Exploring Design Directions. How Books, 2012.

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Kenski, Kate, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.001.0001.

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An incisive, broad-based overview of political communication, the Oxford Handbook for Political Communication assembles the leading scholars in the field of political communication to answer the question: What do we know and need to know about the process by which humans claim, lose, or share power through symbolic exchanges? Its sixty-three essays address the following five themes: contexts for viewing the field of political communication, political discourse, media and political communication, interpersonal and small group political communication, and the altered political communication landscape. This comprehensive review of the political communication literature is designed to become the first reference for scholars and students interested in the study of how, why, when, and with what effect humans make sense of symbolic exchanges about sharing and shared power.

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Goodman, Jessica. Mapping Theatrical Paris. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198796626.003.0003.

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This chapter begins a recontextualization of Goldoni’s Comédie-Italienne career with a panoramic view, analysing the position of the Italian theatre in the contemporary Parisian theatrical field. Original archive work provides the most comprehensive existing account of the theatre’s audiences and finances across the 1760s, and this account is compared to existing work on the Comédie-Française and the Opéra to create a clearer picture of the symbolic and commercial hierarchies within which the various Parisian theatres operated. In particular, the chapter explores the tension between symbolic and commercial status in the theatres of the period, and reveals that in contrast to the long-standing assumption that the Comédie-Italienne was less successful than the Comédie-Française, the Italian theatre was on a par with its rival.

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Color Management for Logos: A Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designers. RotoVision, 2006.

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Williams, Charles Alfred Speed. Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages. Tuttle Publishing, 2006.

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Farbstein, Rebecca. Palaeolithic Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Timothy Insoll. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.013.034.

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This chapter discusses the rich archaeological record of Upper Palaeolithic symbolic material culture from sites in Central and Eastern Europe. In particular, it focuses on art and ornaments excavated from sites in Czech Republic, Austria, Ukraine, and Russia. Following a review of some influential and provocative interpretations of the most frequently discussed figurative art, in particular the so-called ‘Venus’ figurines, it proposes new contextual frameworks that facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the diverse records of symbolic material culture, which include large quantities of zoomorphic, non-figurative art, and ornaments which have been the focus of relatively less research to date. Furthermore, it argues for the need for more nuanced approaches to the study of Palaeolithic art, particularly those which recognize that the socially embedded production of art could offer as much insight into these assemblages as the traditional approaches which focus on the iconography or appearance of the most aesthetically striking figurines.

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Threadgold, Steven. Bourdieu and Affect. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529206616.001.0001.

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A Bourdieusian contribution to studies of affect provides a more comprehensive understanding of the everyday moments that make, transform and remake the social contours of inequality, and how those relations are contested and resisted. By teasing out the affective elements already implicit in concepts like habitus, illusio, cultural capital, field and symbolic violence, this book develops a theory of affective affinities to consider how emotions and feelings are central to how class is affectively delineated along with material and symbolic relations. This includes theorising habitus as one’s history rolled up into an affective ball of immanent dispositions, an assemblage of embodied affective charges. Sketching fields as having their own affective atmospheres and structures of feeling, while considering everyday settings that the concept of field cannot capture. Drawing upon illusio, social gravity and social magic to unpack how the embodied nature of the forms of capital mean they operate in affective economies mediating transmissions of affective violence. The book concludes by critically engaging with aspects of social change due to the rise of reflexivity, irony and cynicism and proposing the figure of the accumulated being to challenge the dominance of homo economicus.

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Coyne, Lisa W., and Darin Cairns. A Relational Frame Theory Analysis of Coercive Family Process. Edited by Thomas J. Dishion and James Snyder. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199324552.013.8.

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This chapter provides a brief overview of direct conditioning models of coercive family process, and augments those accounts by application of relational frame theory and rule-governed behavior. Relational frame theory is a behavior analytic approach to symbolic processes—language and cognition—that extends Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior. It provides an empirical account of indirect conditioning, and as such, gives us a way to conceptualize coercive family process—and interventions—in a more fine-grained and comprehensive way that allows us to influence this process with greater precision, scope, and depth. In this chapter, we offer a detailed description of indirect conditioning processes that may be involved in the development and maintenance of family processes, as well as some future directions for a systemic intervention to reduce coercion.

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Cornago, Noé. Diplomacy and Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.155.

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The relationship between diplomacy and revolution is often intertwined with the broader issue of the international dimensions of revolution. Diplomacy can offer important insights into both the historical evolution of world order and its evolving functional and normative needs. In other words, the most important dimension of diplomacy, beyond its concrete symbolic and pragmatic operational value, is its very existence as raison de système. A number of scholarly works that explore the link between revolution and the international arena have given rise to a minority subfield of scholarly research and debate which is particularly vibrant and plural. Three basic lines of research can be identified: case studies undertaken by historians and area studies scholars that focus on the international dimensions surrounding particular revolutions; comparative political studies that address the international implications of revolutions by departing from a more comprehensive theoretical framework but still based in comprehensive case studies; and more theoretically comprehensive literature which, in addition to careful case studies, aims to provide a general and far-reaching explanatory theoretical framework on the relationship between revolution and long-term historical change from different perspectives: English school international theory, neorealism, world systems analysis, postmarxism, or constructivism. In a context of growing inequality and global exploitation, the international dimension of revolutions is receiving renewed attention from scholars using innovative critical theoretical approaches.

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Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages with over 400 illustrations. 4th ed. Tuttle Publishing, 2006.

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Koosed, Jennifer L. Sustenance and Survival in Biblical Narrative. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.42.

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Food is a comprehensive cultural code. In ancient Israel and early Judaism, food production and preparation structured lives; what one did in the process was determined by gender and class status and sometimes even marked by ethnic and religious identity. Food also serves to structure narrative, shape characterization, and add layers of symbolic signification to story. In the Bible, the drama of the first few chapters revolves around proper versus improper eating, and the final book portrays God as a lamb sacrificed for the Passover meal. Between picking and tasting the forbidden fruit, and slaughtering and eating God, a whole host of food-related plots, characters, and images proliferate, many of which revolve around the most important of foodstuffs: bread. This chapter explores the centrality of bread in the story of Adam and Eve, the book of Ruth, and the gospels of Jesus.

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Zbikowski, Lawrence M. Music and Analogy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190653637.003.0002.

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This chapter reviews recent research on analogy and explains how humans’ capacity for analogical thought shapes the production and comprehension of music. The chapter includes an introduction to Lawrence Barsalou’s perceptual symbol systems theory, which is used to explain how embodied experience informs analogical thought, especially that associated with music. Analogical reference, an idea adapted from Peirce’s concept of iconicity, is introduced, leading to a systematic definition of the sonic analogs for dynamic processes that provide the foundation for musical grammar. The chapter also explores how meaning can be constructed through sequences of musical sound.

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Williams, Charles Alfred Speed. Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Revised Edition: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages. Tuttle Publishing, 2018.

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Polesel, John. Pre-Employment Skill Formation in Australia and Germany. Edited by John Buchanan, David Finegold, Ken Mayhew, and Chris Warhurst. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199655366.013.8.

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This chapter provides a critical analysis of the role that vocational education and training plays in preparing young people for the labour market in two contrasting systems – Australia and Germany. In Germany, this occurs mainly within the structure of the “dual system”. In Australia, it occurs within a system of comprehensive high schools, where vocational studies are located within the senior secondary certificates. In Australia, it also occurs to an extent in the adult sector VET institutions and in some specialist providers which focus on school-aged youth. The concepts of education logic and employment logic and the type of welfare state, whether neocorporatist or neoliberal, are used to analyse important differences between Australia and Germany. The chapter argues that the skills formation of young people requires both symbolic and financial support and an approach to upper secondary education which is not captive to the sorting and selection mechanisms of universities.

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Logo Font & Lettering Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols. How Design Books, 2004.

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Agarwal, Anil, Santhini Jeyarajah, Rhiannon Harris, Ruwan Weerakkody, Greg McLatchie, and Neil Borley, eds. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery. 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198799481.001.0001.

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This new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery is thoroughly revised with the latest guidelines, management algorithms, and guidance on decision-making. It features three new chapters, on day case surgery, remote and rural surgery, and emergency surgery. The book also offers surgically relevant anatomy and physiology, quick reference symbols, key diagrams, and a focus on evidence-based practice with key references throughout. It is thoroughly comprehensive, without sacrificing the clear, concise, and quick-reference style the Oxford Medical Handbooks are known for. Ultimately, the new edition provides an accessible pocket reference for surgical trainees, medical students, and all those involved in the care of the surgical patient.

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Giunti, Marco. Computation, Dynamics, and Cognition. Oxford University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090093.001.0001.

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Currently there is growing interest in the application of dynamical methods to the study of cognition. Computation, Dynamics, and Cognition investigates this convergence from a theoretical and philosophical perspective, generating a provocative new view of the aims and methods of cognitive science. Advancing the dynamical approach as the methodological frame best equipped to guide inquiry in the field's two main research programs--the symbolic and connectionist approaches--Marco Giunti engages a host of questions crucial not only to the science of cognition, but also to computation theory, dynamical systems theory, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. In chapter one Giunti employs a dynamical viewpoint to explore foundational issues in computation theory. Using the concept of Turing computability, he precisely and originally defines the nature of a computational system, sharpening our understanding of computation theory and its applications. In chapter two he generalizes his definition of a computational system, arguing that the concept of Turing computability itself is relative to the kind of support on which Turing machine operate. Chapter three completes the book's conceptual foundation, discussing a form of scientific explanation for real dynamical systems that Giunti calls "Galilean explanation." The book's fourth and final chapter develops the methodological thesis that all cognitive systems are dynamical systems. On Giunti's view, a dynamical approach is likely to benefit even those scientific explanations of cognition which are based on symbolic models. Giunti concludes by proposing a new modeling practice for cognitive science, one based on "Galilean models" of cognitive systems. Innovative, lucidly-written, and broad-ranging in its analysis, Computation, Dynamics, and Cognition will interest philosophers of science and mind, as well as cognitive scientists, computer scientists, and theorists of dynamical systems. This book elaborates a comprehensive picture of the application of dynamical methods to the study of cognition. Giunti argues that both computational systems and connectionist networks are special types of dynamical systems. He shows how this dynamical approach can be applied to problems of cognition, information processing, consciousness, meaning, and the relation between body and mind.

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Thagard, Paul. Brain-Mind. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190678715.001.0001.

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Minds enable people to perceive, imagine, solve problems, understand, learn, speak, reason, create, and be emotional and conscious. Competing explanations of how the mind works have identified it as soul, computer, brain, dynamical system, or social construction. This book explains minds in terms of interacting mechanisms operating at multiple levels, including the social, mental, neural, and molecular. Brain–Mind presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Unification comes from systematic application of Chris Eliasmith’s powerful new Semantic Pointer Architecture, a highly original synthesis of neural network and symbolic ideas about how the mind works. The book shows the relevance of semantic pointers to a full range of important kinds of mental representations, from sensations and imagery to concepts, rules, analogies, and emotions. Neural mechanisms are used to explain many phenomena concerning consciousness, action, intention, language, creativity, and the self. This book belongs to a trio that includes Mind–Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. They can be read independently, but together they make up a Treatise on Mind and Society that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.

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Hejduk, Julia. The God of Rome. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190607739.001.0001.

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Inspiring reverence and blasphemy, combining paternal benignity with sexual violence, transcendent universality with tribal chauvinism, Jupiter represents both the best and the worst of ancient religion. Though often assimilated to Zeus, Jupiter differs from his Greek counterpart as much as Rome differs from Greece; “the god of Rome” conveys both Jupiter’s sovereignty over Rome and his symbolic encapsulation of what Rome represents. Understanding this dizzyingly complex figure is crucial not only to the study of Roman religion, but to the whole of literary, intellectual, and religious history. This book examines Jupiter in Latin poetry’s most formative and fruitful period, the reign of the emperor Augustus. As Roman society was transformed from a republic or oligarchy to a de facto monarchy, Jupiter came to play a unique role as the celestial counterpart of the first earthly princeps. While studies of Augustan poetry may glance at Jupiter as an Augustus figure, or Augustus as a Jupiter figure, they rarely explore the poets’ richly nuanced treatment of the god as a character in his own right. This book fills that gap, demonstrating how Jupiter attracts thoughts about politics, power, sex, fatherhood, religion, poetry, and almost everything else of importance to poets and other humans. It explores the god’s manifestations in the five major Augustan poets (Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid), providing a fascinating window on a transformative period of history, as well as a comprehensive view of the poets’ individual personalities and shifting concerns.

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