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  • Plato's Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals
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  • Paul M. Churchland
  • 2012
  • Published by: The MIT Press
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A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. 2-5
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. 1. Introduction: A Fast Overview
  2. pp. 1-34
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  1. 2. First-Level Learning, Part 1: Structural Changes in the Brain and the Development of Lasting Conceptual Frameworks
  2. pp. 35-122
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  1. 3. First-Level Learning, Part 2: On the Evaluation of Maps and Their Generation by Hebbian Learning
  2. pp. 123-186
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  1. 4. Second-Level Learning: Dynamical Changes in the Brain and Domain-Shifted Redeployments of Existing Concepts
  2. pp. 187-250
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  1. 5. Third-Level Learning: The Regulation and Amplification of First- and Second-Level Learning through a Growing Network of Cultural Institutions
  2. pp. 251-278
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  1. Appendix
  2. pp. 279-280
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  1. References
  2. pp. 281-286
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 287-290
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  1. Image Plates
  2. pp. 291-302
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