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      Cognitive Carpentry: A Blueprint for How to Build a Person

      John L. Pollock

      This text argues that progress in artificial intelligence has stalled because of its creators’ reliance upon unformulated intuitions about rationality. Underlying the book’s thesis is a conviction that the tenets…

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      The Foundations of Philosophical Semantics

      John L. Pollock

      Although philosophical semantics has become both a discipline in its own right and the source of the analytic techniques used in the rest of philosophy, its foundations have themselves been…

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      Language and Thought

      John L. Pollock

      Most philosophical theories of language have assumed that statements (products of assertion) and propositions (objects of belief) are the same things. John L. Pollock denies this, maintaining that even when…

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      Knowledge and Justification

      John L. Pollock

      One of the most firmly entrenched beliefs of contemporary philosophy is that the only way to analyze a concept is to state its truth conditions. In epistemology this has led…

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      The Foundations of Philosophical Semantics

      John L. Pollock

      Although philosophical semantics has become both a discipline in its own right and the source of the analytic techniques used in the rest of philosophy, its foundations have themselves been…

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      Language and Thought

      John L. Pollock

      Most philosophical theories of language have assumed that statements (products of assertion) and propositions (objects of belief) are the same things. John L. Pollock denies this, maintaining that even when…

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      Knowledge and Justification

      John L. Pollock

      One of the most firmly entrenched beliefs of contemporary philosophy is that the only way to analyze a concept is to state its truth conditions. In epistemology this has led…

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      Technical Methods in Philosophy

      John L. Pollock

      This book introduces the technical tools and concepts that are indispensable for advanced work in philosophy. Beginning with the fundamentals of set theory, the author guides the reader through relations…

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      Technical Methods in Philosophy

      John L. Pollock

      This book introduces the technical tools and concepts that are indispensable for advanced work in philosophy. Beginning with the fundamentals of set theory, the author guides the reader through relations…

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      Nomic Probability and the Foundations of Induction

      John L. Pollock (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona)

      In this book Pollock examines the subject of probabilistic reasoning, making general philosophical sense of objective probabilities and exploring their relationship to the problem of induction. His main claim is…

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      Thinking about Acting: Logical Foundations for Rational Decision Making

      John L. Pollock (Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Arizona)

      This book aims to construct a theory of rational decision making for real, resource-bounded, agents. Such decision making must be based on objective probabilities rather than subjective probabilities, and cannot…

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      Resurrecting Old-Fashioned Foundationalism

      Epistemic foundationalism has been attacked by a wide range of theorist over the years. DePaul uses these attacks as proof that foundationalism is not a thing of the past, but…

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      Contemporary Theories of Knowledge

      John L. Pollock,Joseph Cruz,Joseph Cruz (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Hampshire College, Massachusetts, USA)

      This updated edition includes analyses of the recent literature in epistemology. In addtion, a case is made for the strong connection between epistemology and artificial intelligence.

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      Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine

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      Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine, Ninth Edition, offers a balanced view of the most current knowledge of cancer science and clinical oncology practice. This all-new edition is the consummate reference source for…

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