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  • A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts

    by Paul van Geert ...
    This book presents a comprehensive and unexpected approach to the visual arts, grounded in the theories of complexity and dynamical systems. Paul van Geert shows how complexity and dynamical systems theories, originally developed in mathematics and physics, offer a novel perspective through which to view the visual arts. Diverse aspects of visual arts as a practice, profession, and historical ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Toward a Process Approach in Psychology

    Stepping into Heraclitus' River

    by Paul van Geert, Naomi de Ruiter ...
    Psychological science constructs much of the knowledge that we consume in our everyday lives. This book is a systematic analysis of this process, and of the nature of the knowledge it produces. The authors show how mainstream scientific activity treats psychological properties as being fundamentally stable, universal, and isolable. They then challenge this status quo by inviting readers to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Development of Perception, Cognition and Language

    A Theoretical Approach

    by Paul van Geert ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Perception
    Originally published in 1983, the aim of this book was to discuss some fundamental problems of cognitive developmental psychology at the time. The theme which underlies the discussion is that scientific knowledge of the cognitive characteristics of other people starts from the cognitive instruments that we psychologist employ, viz. our theories, models, assumptions, methods of enquiry etc. Thus ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Technology Development

    by Paul Weaver, Leo Jansen, Geert van Grootveld, Egbert van Spiegel, Philip Vergragt ...
    In the time it takes to read this sentence, about fifteen people will be added to the world's population. Read the sentence again, and there will be thirty. Tomorrow, each of these people will be demanding greater prosperity. Production and consumption are increasing fast but will have to grow even faster in the future to keep up with population growth and a world increasingly divided by ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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  • Art and Cognition

    Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curriculum

    by Arthur D. Efland ...
    In this in-depth text, the preeminent art education scholar Arthur Efland not only sheds light on the problems inhibiting art education, but also demonstrates how art contributes to the overall development of the mind. Delineating how the development of artistic interests and ability is an important aspect of cognition and learning, he shows how art helps individuals construct cultural meaning, a ... Read more

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  • From Object to Experience

    The New Culture of Architectural Design

    by Harry Francis Mallgrave ...
    Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science and evolutionary biology to make a powerful argument about the nature and future of architectural design.Today, the sciences have granted us the tools to help us understand better than ever before the precise ways in which the built ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling

    Edited by Tarja Knuuttila, Natalia Carrillo, Rami Koskinen ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Models and modeling have played an increasingly important role in philosophy, going back to the nineteenth century. While philosophical interest in models has been remarkably lively over the last two decades, there are still many underexplored questions. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling is an outstanding reference source and guide to this fast-growing area and is the ... Read more

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  • Visual Literacy

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    What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding "the visual," exploring national and regional ideas of visuality and charting out new territories of ... Read more

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    On the limits of brain science

    by Paolo Legrenzi, Carlo Umilta ...
    Translated by Frances Anderson ...
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  • The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge

    Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science

    by Loet Leydesdorff ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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    by Alexander Riegler, Karl H Muller, Stuart A Umpleby ...
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