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Table of Contents “.... -- Semiotic brains and artificial minds : how brains make up material cognitive systems. -- Neuromultimodal abduction : pre-wired brains, embidiment, neurospaces. -- Animal abduction : from mindless organisms to srtifactual mediators. -- Abduction, affordances, and cognitive niches : sharing representations and creating chances through cognitive niche construction. -- Abduction in human and logical agents : hasty generalizers, hybrid abducers, fallacies. -- Morphodynamical abduction : causation of hypotheses by attractors dynamics....”

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Table of Contents “...Feeney and William A. Roberts -- Animal models of human cognition / Jonathon D. Crystal -- Metacognition across species / J. ...”

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Table of Contents “...Embodied, embedded, and extended cognition; 15. Animal cognition; Glossary....”

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Table of Contents “...Cognitive mate choice / Michael J. Ryan, Karin L. Akre, & Mark Kirkpatrick. ...”

Table of Contents “...Meaning and event; or, systems theory and the reconstruction of deconstruction -- Language, representation, and species: cognitive science versus deconstruction -- Flesh and finitude: bioethics and the philosophy of the living -- Animal studies, disciplinarity, and the (post)humanities -- Learning from Temple Grandin: animal studies, disability studies, and who comes after the subject -- From dead meat to glow-in-the-dark bunnies: the animal question in contemporary art -- When you can't believe your eyes (or voice): dancer in the dark -- Lose the building: form and system in contemporary architecture -- Emerson's romanticism, Cavell's skepticism, Luhmann's modernity -- The idea of observation at Key West: systems theory, poetry, and form beyond formalism -- The digital, the analog, and the spectral: echographies from my life in the bush of ghosts....”

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Table of Contents “...a history, or how the idea of spatial cognition in animals developed /...”

Table of Contents “...The science of animal behavior -- Evolution and the study of animal behavior -- Methods for studying animal behavior -- Behavioral genetics -- Learning and cognition -- Communication -- Foraging behavior -- Antipredator behavior -- Dispersal and migration -- Habitat selection, territoriality, and aggression -- Mating behavior -- Mating systems -- Parental care -- Social behavior....”

Table of Contents “...Animating ideas of idealism : a semantic sonata in Kant and Hegel -- Norms, selves, and concepts -- Autonomy, community, and freedom -- History, reason, and reality -- Reason and philosophy today -- Reason, expression, and the philosophic enterprise -- Philosophy and the expressive freedom of thought -- Why truth is not important in philosophy -- Three problems with the empiricist conception of concepts -- How analytic philosophy has failed cognitive science....”