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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul W Glimcher |
| ISBN: | 0262072440 9780262072441 0262572273 9780262572279 |
| OCLC Number: | 50072554 |
| Notes: | "A Bradford book." |
| Description: | xx, 375 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Economics -- Behavioral Ecology -- Historical Approaches -- Rene Descartes and the Birth of Neuroscience -- Vaucanson's Duck -- Rene Descartes -- Understanding the Ancients -- The Renaissance -- Francis Bacon -- William Harvey -- Descartes's Synthesis -- Inventing the Reflex -- Enlightenment Views of Determinism in the Physical and Biological World -- Determinism in Geometrical Mathematics and Geometrical Physics -- Determinism and Behavior -- Nondeterministic Behavior -- The Birth of Analytic Mathematics: The End of Geometric World Models -- Beyond Clockworks: Analytic Models of the Determinate Brain -- Vaucanson's Duck in a Deterministic, but Analytic, World -- Charles Sherrington and the Propositional Logic of Reflexes -- Testing the Limits of Determinate Analytic Mathematics -- Charles Scott Sherrington: The Confluence of Logic and Physiology -- Sherrington's System: The Logic of the Nervous System -- Dualism -- The Godel Theorem: Finding the Limits of Determinate Mathematics -- Alan Turing and Computability -- Finding the Limits of the Sherringtonian Paradigm -- Reflexes: Empirical Fact, Philosophical Paradigm, or Both? -- The Reflex Model Is Not Adequate to Account for All Determinate Behavior. Additional Mechanisms Are Required -- Sherrington's Cat -- T. Graham Brown and Internal Rhythms -- Erik Von Holtz: Adding to Reflex Theory -- Reflexes Are Not, as Sherrington Argued, the Organizational Element for Behavior. Behavior May Be Structured Hierarchically -- Paul Weiss -- Nickolai Bernstein -- Beyond Reflexes. |
| Series Title: | Bradford book. |
| Responsibility: | Paul W. Glimcher. |
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- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Brain -- Mathematical models.
- Neuroeconomics.
- Reflexes.
- Dualism.
- Mental Processes -- physiology.
- Brain -- physiology.
- Economics.
- Philosophy.
- Reflex.
- Neurosciences cognitives.
- Cerveau -- Modèles mathématiques.
- Microéconomie.
- Réflexes.
- Dualisme.
- Neuropsychologie.
- Neuroéconomie.
- Entscheidungsverhalten.
- Rational Choice.
