Published April, 2013
By Michele Zappella and Alberto Oliverio
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Synthese Library
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The present workshop started with various requests on behalf of several participants: some of us suggested the desirability of having only a free discussion, leaving papers aside: others would have preferred to stick to papers, though enlarging the discussion of each of them to more general topics.

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Published March, 2013
By Philippe Huneman
Publisher: Springer
Series: Synthese Library
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This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.

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Published December, 2010
By L.M. Vaina, Scott A. Beardsley and Simon K. Rushton
Publisher: Springer
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Optic flow provides all the information necessary to guide a walking human or a mobile robot to its target. Over the past 50 years, a body of research on optic flow spanning the disciplines of neurophysiology, psychophysics, experimental psychology, brain imaging and computational modelling has accumulated.

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Published December, 2010
By Mark A. Changizi
Publisher: Springer
Series: Synthese Library
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In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A. The author tackles such questions as why the brain is folded, and why animals have as many limbs as they do, explaining how these relate to principles of network optimality.

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