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A hugely enjoyable, brilliantly researched explanation of the basic principles of maths.

Number concept. --- Mathematics --- Wiskunde geschiedenis --- Wiskunde : formules --- 510 --- Apperception --- Psychology --- Wiskunde ; geschiedenis --- Number concept

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Mathematics --- Perception --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Math --- Science --- Supraliminal perception --- Cognition --- Apperception --- Senses and sensation --- Thought and thinking --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Mathematics. --- Perception.

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During the last three decades, there have been enormous advances in our understanding of the neural mechanisms of selective attention at the network as well as the cellular level. This book brings together the different research areas that constitute contemporary attention research into one comprehensive and authoritative volume. In 40 chapters, it covers the most important aspects of attention research from the areas of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, human and animal neuroscience, computational modelling, and philosophy. The book is divided into 4 main sections. Following an introduction from Michael Posner, the books starts by looking at theoretical models of attention. The next two sections are dedicated to spatial attention and non-spatial attention respectively. Within section 4, the authors consider the interactions between attention and other psychological domains. The last two sections focus on attention-related disorders, and finally, on computational models of attention. Aimed at both scholars and students, this book provides a concise and state-of-the-art review of the current literature in this field.

Cognitive psychology --- Attention --- Cognitive neuroscience --- Attention. --- Neurosciences --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Concentration (Psychology) --- Flow (Psychology) --- Apperception --- Arousal (Physiology) --- Educational psychology --- Memory --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Distraction (Psychology) --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Interest (Psychology) --- E-books

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Die philosophischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen der Frage nach, inwieweit sich eine Ethik des Verstehens entwickeln lässt und worin eigentlich die ‚ethische Dimension’ des Verstehens besteht: Ist Verstehen als eine Erkenntnisform zu begreifen, die als solche in besonderer Weise ethisch qualifiziert ist? Und liegt im Verstehen eine Tendenz zu verständnisvollem, wohlwollendem oder gutem Urteilen? Einerseits ist Verstehen als Erkennen strikt zu trennen von Verständnis im Sinne des Mitgefühls oder gar des Einverständnisses; andererseits ist Verstehen durch eine Offenheit für den Anderen oder das Andere bedingt und wird erleichtert, wo ein Wille zum Verständnis da ist. Es geht mithin um die Begründetheit des Verstehens in ethischen Zusammenhängen und die ethische Qualität sozial-kommunikativer Handlungen, von denen das Verstehen eine besonders ausgezeichnete ist. So kann Verstehen aus Moral, aber auch Moral aus Verstehen erwachsen.

Consciousness --- Ethics --- Ethics in literature --- Consciousness. --- Ethics in literature. --- Ethics. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self

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The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding. Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can this stance account for the epistemic standing of science, which unabashedly relies on models, idealizations, and thought experiments that are known not to be true? In True Enough, Catherine Elgin argues that we should not assume that the inaccuracy of models and idealizations constitutes an inadequacy. To the contrary, their divergence from truth or representational accuracy fosters their epistemic functioning. When effective, models and idealizations are, Elgin contends, felicitous falsehoods that exemplify features of the phenomena they bear on. Because works of art deploy the same sorts of felicitous falsehoods, she argues, they also advance understanding.Elgin develops a holistic epistemology that focuses on the understanding of broad ranges of phenomena rather than knowledge of individual facts. Epistemic acceptability, she maintains, is a matter not of truth-conduciveness, but of what would be reflectively endorsed by the members of an idealized epistemic community—a quasi-Kantian realm of epistemic ends.

Knowledge, Theory of. --- Comprehension. --- Science --- Arts --- Philosophy. --- PHILOSOPHY/General --- PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Understanding --- Apperception --- Learning, Psychology of --- Memory --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Épistémologie. --- Philosophie des sciences. --- Épistémologie --- Vérité --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Compréhension