The Laboratory Of The Mind

Author : James Robert Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136943773
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laboratory of the Mind written by James Robert Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain a greater understanding of the natural world? How is it possible that we can learn new things just by thinking? In this revised and updated new edition of his classic text The Laboratory of the Mind, James Robert Brown continues to defend apriorism in the physical world. This edition features two new chapters, one on “counter thought experiments” and another on the development of inertial motion. With plenty of illustrations and updated coverage of the debate between Platonic rationalism and classic empiricism, this is a lively and engaging contribution to the field of philosophy of science.

Author : James Robert Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134865791
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laboratory of the Mind written by James Robert Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though most scientists and philosophers would admit their great importance, there has been very little serious study of them. This volume is the first book-length investigation of thought experiments. Starting with Galileo's argument on falling bodies, Brown describes numerous examples of the most influential thought experiments from the history of science. Following this introduction to the subject, some substantial and provocative claims are made, the principle being that some thought experiments should be understood in the same way that platonists understand mathematical activity: as an intellectual grasp of an independently existing abstract realm. With its clarity of style and structure, The Laboratory of the Mind will find readers among all philosophers of science as well as scientists who have puzzled over how thought experiments work.

Author : Rebecca Lemov
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374707294
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World as Laboratory written by Rebecca Lemov and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply researched, World as Laboratory tells a secret history that's not really a secret. The fruits of human engineering are all around us: advertising, polls, focus groups, the ubiquitous habit of "spin" practiced by marketers and politicians. What Rebecca Lemov cleverly traces for the first time is how the absurd, the practical, and the dangerous experiments of the human engineers of the first half of the twentieth century left their laboratories to become our day-to-day reality.

Author : Michael Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558235
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Culture, and Activity written by Michael Cole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-13 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents articles important to contemporary studies of the cultural and contextual foundations of human development. It address es the need to create a Psychology which focuses upon the actions of people participating in routine, culturally organized activities. The discussion includes: the nature of context; experiments as contexts; culture-historical theories of culture, context and development; the analysis of classroom settings as a social important context of development, the psychological analysis of activity in situ, and questions of power and discourse.

Author : Kathleen M. Galotti
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506391745
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory written by Kathleen M. Galotti and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory presents balanced, up-to-date coverage of cognitive psychology and shows readers that research conducted in the lab truly does impact the real world. Using her signature, accessible writing style, author Kathleen M. Galotti masterfully connects cognitive psychology to students′ everyday lives through current, relevant examples. The Sixth Edition has been updated to reflect the rapidly changing field of cognitive psychology with new references, streamlined content that gives more attention to key topics like memory, and material on advances in research that enhance our understanding of how people acquire and use information. Interactive eBook also available—bundle it with the new edition! Your students save when you bundle the new edition with the interactive eBook version. Order using bundle ISBN 978-1-5063-9877-8. /p>

Author : Emily Martin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691232075
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments of the Mind written by Emily Martin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology—and their influence on the addictive nature of social media Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download a health app, complete a Facebook quiz, or rate our latest purchase. How did experimental psychology come to play an outsized role in these developments? Experiments of the Mind considers this question through a look at cognitive psychology laboratories. Emily Martin traces how psychological research methods evolved, escaped the boundaries of the discipline, and infiltrated social media and our digital universe. Martin recounts her participation in psychology labs, and she conveys their activities through the voices of principal investigators, graduate students, and subjects. Despite claims of experimental psychology’s focus on isolated individuals, Martin finds that the history of the field—from early German labs to Gestalt psychology—has led to research methods that are, in fact, highly social. She shows how these methods are deployed online: amplified by troves of data and powerful machine learning, an unprecedented model of human psychology is now widespread—one in which statistical measures are paired with algorithms to predict and influence users’ behavior. Experiments of the Mind examines how psychology research has shaped us to be perfectly suited for our networked age.

Author : Kathleen M. Galotti
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412974100
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory written by Kathleen M. Galotti and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian McAllister Groves
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439907696
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearts and Minds written by Julian McAllister Groves and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a university town that is a center of biomedical research, Groves found he could not ignore the intense opposition to research using animals. He began to analyze the formation and activities of local protest groups, attending meetings and talking to activists about their beliefs. To his surprise, many activists emphasized rational and scientific justifications for their commitment to the movement. Conversely, scientists frequently discussed their use of lab animals in the context of their attachment to pets or other animals and their concern for the environment. Groves seeks to understand these positions in connection with popular beliefs about the place of emotions in public life. Hearts and Minds looks past the placards and sound-bites to people's intellectual and psychological explanations for their positions. It discards worn generalizations and offers a nuanced portrait of people who are seriously engaged in reconciling their ethics and their behavior.

Author : Michael S. A. Graziano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199928657
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and the Social Brain written by Michael S. A. Graziano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in detail. One function of this circuitry is to attribute awareness to others: to compute that person Y is aware of thing X. In Graziano's theory, the machinery that attributes awareness to others also attributes it to oneself. Damage that machinery and you disrupt your own awareness. Graziano discusses the science, the evidence, the philosophy, and the surprising implications of this new theory.

Author : Robert P. Charrow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226101665
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law in the Laboratory written by Robert P. Charrow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together fund more than $40 billon of research annually in the United States and around the globe. These large public expenditures come with strings, including a complex set of laws and guidelines that regulate how scientists may use NIH and NSF funds, how federally funded research may be conducted, and who may have access to or own the product of the research. Until now, researchers have had little instruction on the nature of these laws and how they work. But now, with Robert P. Charrow’s Law in the Laboratory, they have a readable and entertaining introduction to the major ethical and legal considerations pertaining to research under the aegis of federal science funding. For any academic whose position is grant funded, or for any faculty involved in securing grants, this book will be an essential reference manual. And for those who want to learn how federal legislation and regulations affect laboratory research, Charrow’s primer will shed light on the often obscured intersection of government and science.