An inspirational, personal story of one soccer star's never-say-die attitudes, and his rise to the topSergio Torres's is an incredible true story of the benefits of willpower, sacrifice, joy, and daring to dream. Imagine you're working in a brick factory in the Argentine city Mar del Plata, and a 22-year-old colleague tells you he's going to quit his job to become a professional soccer player in Europe. Yeah, right. Next, he blows his savings on a ticket to England...

This collection of poems was written within a concentrated period, resulting from an exercise in intense introspection. It reflects on personal themes, obsessions, and memories that needed compiling, akin to editing a video. The poems function as sequences that guide the reader to viscerally experience the writer's mindscape through vivid readings and fetishized characters. There are no extreme pains, traumas, or passions portrayed, only images gathered in the serenity afforded by time - o...

The fake—the counterfeit, the bogus, the inauthentic—is not merely a deviation from reality; it is, fundamentally, a relative and socially constructed phenomenon. Increasingly, what we label as "fake" is not defined by its distance from truth, but by the consensus that allows it to inhabit the space of belief. It is sanctioned fiction, clothed in certainty. In contemporary political and cultural spheres, the fake takes form not as a sophisticated illusion or strategic deceit, but ...

Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar (AgCCxG) redefines language as an adaptive, embodied semiotic system shaped by cognition, interaction, and prediction. Rooted in Peircean semiotics and Active Inference, it sees speakers as agent-interpretants adjusting semiotic representations based on need-driven processes rather than rigid hierarchies. Rejecting dualism, AgCCxG highlights the interplay between semiotic agency, embodied cognition, and adaptive mechanisms, emphasizing the t...

The rise of generative AI (GenAI), exemplified by ChatGPT and Claude, has triggered profound debates about technology's impact on humanity. These systems, while powerful, lack embodied cognition, challenging assumptions about agency, creativity, and intelligence. This book critiques reductive narratives equating computational fluency with understanding, emphasizing the biological and intentional roots of human consciousness. It explores epistemological limits, ontological differences, and ...

In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of the workings of the human mind. Philosophy has made a major contribution to cognitive science and has itself been hugely influenced by its development. This dynamic book explores the philosophical significance of cognitive science and examines the central debates that have enlivened its history.In a wide-ranging and comprehensive account of the topic, philosopher M.J. Cain discusses the historical origins o...

A comprehensive guide to conducting research projects in linguistics, this book provides a complete training in state-of-the-art data collection, processing, and analysis techniques. The book follows the structure of a research project, guiding the reader through the steps involved in collecting and processing data, and providing a solid foundation for linguistic analysis. All major research methods are covered, each by a leading expert. Rather than focusing on narrow specializations, the ...

One of the most fruitful interdisciplinary boundaries in contemporary scholarship is that between philosophy and cognitive science. Now that solid empirical results about the activities of the human mind are available, it is no longer necessary for philosophers to practice armchair psychology. In this short, accessible, and entertaining book, Alvin Goldman presents a masterly survey of recent work in cognitive science that has particular relevance to philosophy. Besides providing a valuabl...

In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This volume merges these two fields, addressing one of the tough problems dividing researchers in bilingualism, conceptually as well as methodologically. Joel Walters proposes a new approach to bilingualism processing--the Sociopragmatic-Psycholinguistic (SPPL) Model--which presents language as a social phenomenon. The author accomplishes this b...

Here is the book description:Linguistics: Foundations, Branches, Methods, and Modern DirectionsLanguage is the most distinctly human of all our capacities — and yet, for most of us, it remains invisible. We speak, listen, read, and write without pausing to wonder how any of it works. This book pauses. It asks the questions that linguists have spent centuries trying to answer: What is language? How does it work at every level, from the smallest sounds to the...

The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these papers are a pair of themes: that explaining the mind requires functional analysis, not subsumption under "psychological laws", and that the propositional attitudes--belief, desire, intention--and their interactions, while real, are not the key to understanding the mind at a fundamental level. Taking these ideas seriously puts considerable...

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint products of brain, body, and environment.