Author: Robert J. Stainton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: contemporary, debates, philosophy, cognitive, science
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-05-15
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 1405113057
ISBN-13: 9781405113052

This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions. The debates are written by renowned experts in the field. The debates cover the middle ground as well as the extremes Addresses topics such as the amount of innate knowledge, bounded rationality and the role of perception in action. Provides valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form.

Author: Robert J. Stainton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: contemporary, debates, philosophy, cognitive, science
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-05-15
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 1405113049
ISBN-13: 9781405113045

This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions. The debates are written by renowned experts in the field. The debates cover the middle ground as well as the extremes Addresses topics such as the amount of innate knowledge, bounded rationality and the role of perception in action. Provides valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form.

Author: Robert J. Stainton
Publisher: Broadview Press
Keywords: language, perspectives, philosophical
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1996-03-18
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1551110865
ISBN-13: 9781551110868

Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. This new text reflects this evolution. ’Philosophical Perspectives on Language’ is distinguished in several important respects from other introductions to the topic. Rather than looking at philosophy of language as a collection of (at best) loosely related topics - speech meaning, etc. - this book is organized around a unifying theme: language as a system of symbols that is known and used.

Authors:Thomas M. Lennon, Robert J. Stainton,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: philosophy, mind, history, studies, rationalist, psychology, achilles
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2008-02-05
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1402068921
ISBN-13: 9781402068928

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the “Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul”. This argument, which he took to be powerful yet fatally flawed, purports to establish the simplicity of the human mind, or soul, on the basis of the unity of consciousness. In Kant’s illustration, the unity had by our perception of a verse cannot be accounted for if the words of the verse are distributed among parts thought to compose the mind. The argument, or at least the unity of consciousness that underpins it, has a his

Author: Sue Stainton
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Keywords: cat, lighthouse
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0060096047
ISBN-13: 9780060096045

In an old lighthouse, where a twenty-four-candle lantern lights a sparkling blue-green sea, dwell a solitary keeper and his little companion -- a cat called Mackerel. Together the two climb up, up, up to watch over the nighttime sea and down, down, down to eat and play. On one stormy night, the quick rush of a fierce wind darkens every candle. Soon an errant fishing boat, lost in the raging black sea, signals distress. Sure enough, it is the sudden glow of twenty-four flashing yellow lights that guide the boat away from danger. Just what could those new lights be?

Author: Sue Stainton
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: cat, snow, santa
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0066238277
ISBN-13: 9780066238272

On the magical eve before Christmas, Santa;s favorite cat falls from his sleigh high in the winter sky into the bustling world of New York below.As Snow Cat wanders the sparkling city, she encounters many "nearly" Santas, but not her beloved Santa.With a huff from the North Wind, and the light of the big Lemon Moon, Snow Cat’s true Santa can’t be far away.

Author: William Stainton Mose
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: teachings, spirit
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1417908874
ISBN-13: 9781417908875

1883. Spirit Teachings, which came through Moses’s hand in what is called automatic writing is regarded as Spiritualism’s greatest classic. Here, in language of matchless prose, is contained the religious, philosophical and ethical implications of Spiritualism, as viewed by the spirit world. The communicators, by sheer brilliant logic, compelled their medium to abandon, stage by stage, his orthodox religious beliefs. They gave clear evidence of their high purpose and furnished him with irrefutable proofs of Survival.