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Michael L. Thomas
University of Chicago
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    Neuroconstructivism - I: How the Brain Constructs Cognition.Denis Mareschal, Mark H. Johnson, Sylvain Sirois, Michael Spratling, Michael S. C. Thomas & Gert Westermann - 2007 - Oxford University Press.
    What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? Neuroconstructivism is a pioneering 2 volume work that sets out a whole new framework for considering the complex topic of development, integrating data from cognitive studies, computational work, and neuroimaging.
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  2. Consciousness: Mapping the theoretical landscape.Anthony P. Atkinson, Michael S. C. Thomas & Axel Cleeremans - 2000 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (10):372-382.
    What makes us conscious? Many theories that attempt to answer this question have appeared recently in the context of widespread interest about consciousness in the cognitive neurosciences. Most of these proposals are formulated in terms of the information processing conducted by the brain. In this overview, we survey and contrast these models. We first delineate several notions of consciousness, addressing what it is that the various models are attempting to explain. Next, we describe a conceptual landscape that addresses how the (...)
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    Are developmental disorders like cases of adult brain damage? Implications from connectionist modelling.Michael Thomas & Annette Karmiloff-Smith - 2002 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (6):727-750.
    It is often assumed that similar domain-specific behavioural impairments found in cases of adult brain damage and developmental disorders correspond to similar underlying causes, and can serve as convergent evidence for the modular structure of the normal adult cognitive system. We argue that this correspondence is contingent on an unsupported assumption that atypical development can produce selective deficits while the rest of the system develops normally (Residual Normality), and that this assumption tends to bias data collection in the field. Based (...)
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  4. Connectionist models of cognition.Michael Sc Thomas & James L. McClelland - 2008 - In Ron Sun (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology. Cambridge University Press.
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    Précis of neuroconstructivism: How the brain constructs cognition.Sylvain Sirois, Michael Spratling, Michael S. C. Thomas, Gert Westermann, Denis Mareschal & Mark H. Johnson - 2008 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (3):321-331.
    Neuroconstructivism: How the Brain Constructs Cognition proposes a unifying framework for the study of cognitive development that brings together (1) constructivism (which views development as the progressive elaboration of increasingly complex structures), (2) cognitive neuroscience (which aims to understand the neural mechanisms underlying behavior), and (3) computational modeling (which proposes formal and explicit specifications of information processing). The guiding principle of our approach is context dependence, within and (in contrast to Marr [1982]) between levels of organization. We propose that three (...)
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    Computational modeling of interventions for developmental disorders.Michael S. C. Thomas, Anna Fedor, Rachael Davis, Juan Yang, Hala Alireza, Tony Charman, Jackie Masterson & Wendy Best - 2019 - Psychological Review 126 (5):693-726.
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  7. Reapplying behavioral symmetry: Public choice and choice architecture.Michael D. Thomas - 2019 - Public Choice 180:11–25.
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  8. Institutional change and the importance of understanding shared mental models.William Shugart, Thomas F., W. Diana & Michael D. Thomas - 2020 - Kyklos 73 (3):371–391.
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    The principles and practices of educational neuroscience: Comment on Bowers (2016).Paul A. Howard-Jones, Sashank Varma, Daniel Ansari, Brian Butterworth, Bert De Smedt, Usha Goswami, Diana Laurillard & Michael S. C. Thomas - 2016 - Psychological Review 123 (5):620-627.
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    Modeling language acquisition in atypical phenotypes.Michael S. C. Thomas & Annette Karmiloff-Smith - 2003 - Psychological Review 110 (4):647-682.
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    Associations between Socioeconomic Status, Cognition, and Brain Structure: Evaluating Potential Causal Pathways Through Mechanistic Models of Development.Michael S. C. Thomas & Selma Coecke - 2023 - Cognitive Science 47 (1):e13217.
    Differences in socioeconomic status (SES) correlate both with differences in cognitive development and in brain structure. Associations between SES and brain measures such as cortical surface area and cortical thickness mediate differences in cognitive skills such as executive function and language. However, causal accounts that link SES, brain, and behavior are challenging because SES is a multidimensional construct: correlated environmental factors, such as family income and parental education, are only distal markers for proximal causal pathways. Moreover, the causal accounts themselves (...)
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    Neuroconstructivism: Volume 1: How the Brain Constructs Cognition.Denis Mareschal, Mark H. Johnson, Sylvain Sirois, Michael Spratling, Michael S. C. Thomas & Gert Westermann - 2007 - Oxford University Press UK.
    What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the way are so complex that any attempt to understand development necessitates a multi-disciplinary approach, integrating data from cognitive studies, computational work, and neuroimaging - an approach till now seldom taken in the study of child development. Neuroconstructivism is a major new 2 volume publication that seeks to redress this balance, presenting an integrative new framework for (...)
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    Multiscale Modeling of Gene–Behavior Associations in an Artificial Neural Network Model of Cognitive Development.Michael S. C. Thomas, Neil A. Forrester & Angelica Ronald - 2016 - Cognitive Science 40 (1):51-99.
    In the multidisciplinary field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, statistical associations between levels of description play an increasingly important role. One example of such associations is the observation of correlations between relatively common gene variants and individual differences in behavior. It is perhaps surprising that such associations can be detected despite the remoteness of these levels of description, and the fact that behavior is the outcome of an extended developmental process involving interaction of the whole organism with a variable environment. Given (...)
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    9. Mead, Whitehead, and the Sociality of Nature.Michael L. Thomas - 2016 - In Hans Joas & Daniel R. Huebner (eds.), The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead. University of Chicago Press. pp. 185-206.
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    Proof complexity of propositional default logic.Olaf Beyersdorff, Arne Meier, Sebastian Müller, Michael Thomas & Heribert Vollmer - 2011 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 50 (7-8):727-742.
    Default logic is one of the most popular and successful formalisms for non-monotonic reasoning. In 2002, Bonatti and Olivetti introduced several sequent calculi for credulous and skeptical reasoning in propositional default logic. In this paper we examine these calculi from a proof-complexity perspective. In particular, we show that the calculus for credulous reasoning obeys almost the same bounds on the proof size as Gentzen’s system LK. Hence proving lower bounds for credulous reasoning will be as hard as proving lower bounds (...)
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  16. God image psychotherapy : comparing approaches.Glendon Moriarty, Michael Thomas & John Allmond - 2008 - In Glendon Moriarty & Louis Hoffman (eds.), God Image Handbook for Spiritual Counseling and Psychotherapy: Research, Theory, and Practice. Haworth Pastoral Press.
     
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  17. Consumer Market Research Does It Have Validity? : Some Post-Modern Thoughts.Michael J. Thomas - 1997 - University of Strathclyde, Dept. Of Marketing.
     
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  18. Der Teilhabegedanke in den Schriften und Predigten des Nikolaus von Kues.Michael Thomas - 1997 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 59 (3):554-555.
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  19. Edmund Husserl: zur Genesis einer spätbürgerlichen Philosophie.Michael Thomas - 1987 - Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
  20. Heilsspiegel und Gottesschau. Zur chronologischen Einordnung des speculum humanae salvationis nach der historischen Kontroverse über die Visio beatifica.Michael Thomas - 1975 - Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 22:204-233.
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    Islam, Technology, and Education: The Case for Culturally Grounded Design.Michael K. Thomas - 2016 - Routledge.
    Based in a global array of case studies - Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Islamic education in the United States - this volume shows how the discourse concerning educational technology in the Islamic world has emphasized neoliberal and neofundamentalist themes, and argues that the design and implementation of educational technologies in schools would be better accomplished by taking a culturally grounded approach. This approach would be rooted in the context and local needs of learners, with implications and possible application (...)
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  22. Konservative Soziologie - Konservative Soziologiegeschichte.Michael Thomas - 1984 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 32 (6):587.
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  23. Let's Deal With The Issue: Commentary On Leavitt.Michael Thomas - 2003 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 13 (5):166-167.
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  24. Post-Modernism for Dummies Occasional Paper.Michael J. Thomas - 1996 - University of Strathclyde, Dept. Of Marketing.
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  25. Quodlibeta.Michael Thomas & Schmaus - 1969 - München,: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften: In kommission bei C. H. Beck. Edited by Michael Schmaus.
     
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    The reception of Derrida: translation and transformation.Michael Thomas - 2006 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    The Reception of Derrida explores the cross-cultural reception of Derrida's work, specifically how that work in all its diversity, has come to be identified with the word deconstruction. In response to this cultural and academic phenomenon, the book examines how Derrida's own understanding of translation and inheritance illuminate the 'translation and transformation' of his own works. Positioned against the misreadings of deconstruction, the book traces the relationship between Derrida's concern with the ethico-political dimension of deconstruction and an authorial legacy. This (...)
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  27. Technik und sozialer Wandel.Michael Thomas - 1988 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 36 (10):954.
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  28. Zum Ursprung der Andersheit (alteritas): ein Problem in cusanischen Denken.Michael Thomas - 1995 - Mitteilungen Und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft 22:55-67.
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    Augustinus von Hippo. Eine Biographie von Peter Brown . Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Johannes Bernard. Societätsverlag Frankfurt a. Main 1973, 499 pp. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas & Rainer Haas - 1973 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 25 (4):369-373.
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    Derek Baker : The materials sources and methods of Ecclesiastical History. , Basil Blackwell Oxford 1975, XII, 370 pp. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1979 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 31 (3):304-305.
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    Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie. Hrsg. von Engelbert Kirschbaum SJ † in Zusammenarbeit mit Günter Bandmann, Wolfgang Braun f els, Johannes Kollwitz †, Wilhelm Mrazek, Al f red A. Schmidt, Hugo Schnell. 4. Bd. Allg. Ikonographie. Saba. Königin von - Zypresse. Nachträge. Verlag Herder. Rom, Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1972, 674 pp., 294 Abb., Stichwortverzeichnisse Englisch und Französisch. Gertrud Schiller: Ikonographie der christlichen Kunst. Bd. 3. Die Auferstehung und Erhöhung Christi. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1971. 604 pp., 721. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1974 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 26 (2):188-191.
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    Kunstgeschichte.Joachim Thiele, Hans Sprenger & Michael Thomas - 1976 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 28 (1-4):268-274.
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    Claude Marumo: Barbizon et les Paysagistes du XIXe. Les Editions de l'Amateur, Paris 1975, 160 pp., zahlr. Abb., Register. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1978 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 30 (2):171-173.
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    Is the Mystery of Thought Demystified by Context‐Dependent Categorisation? Towards a New Relation Between Language and Thought.Michael S. C. Thomas, Harry R. M. Purser & Denis Mareschal - 2012 - Mind and Language 27 (5):595-618.
    We argue that are no such things as literal categories in human cognition. Instead, we argue that there are merely temporary coalescences of dimensions of similarity, which are brought together by context in order to create the similarity structure in mental representations appropriate for the task at hand. Fodor contends that context‐sensitive cognition cannot be realised by current computational theories of mind. We address this challenge by describing a simple computational implementation that exhibits internal knowledge representations whose similarity structure alters (...)
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    Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie. Begr. von Engelbert Kirschbaum SJ †. Hrsg. von Wolfgang Braunfels. 5. Bd. Ikonographie der Heiligen. Aaron - Crescentianus von Rom. Verlag Herder. Rom, Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1973, 519 pp., 239 Abb. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1974 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 26 (2):191-192.
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    Studying development in the 21st century.Michael S. C. Thomas, Gert Westermann, Denis Mareschal, Mark H. Johnson, Sylvain Sirois & Michael Spratling - 2008 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (3):345-356.
    In this response, we consider four main issues arising from the commentaries to the target article. These include further details of the theory of interactive specialization, the relationship between neuroconstructivism and selectionism, the implications of neuroconstructivism for the notion of representation, and the role of genetics in theories of development. We conclude by stressing the importance of multidisciplinary approaches in the future study of cognitive development and by identifying the directions in which neuroconstructivism can expand in the Twenty-first Century.
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    Konrad Fischer: De Deo trino et uno. Das Verhältnis von productio und reductio in seiner Bedeutung für die Gotteslehre Bonaventuras. (Forschungen zur systematischen und ökumenischen Theologie, Band 38), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, 364 pp. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1978 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 30 (4):376-377.
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    Jean Magne: L'Exaltation de Sabaôth dans Hypostase des Archontes 143, 1-31 et L'Exaltation de Jésus dans Philippiens 2, 6-11 ou La Naissance de Jésus-Christ (Cahiers du Cercle Ernest-Renan Jg. 21, Nr. 83) Paris, Cercle Ernest-Renan 1973, 56 pp. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1974 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 26 (4):367.
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    Christliche Theologie.John Hennig, Ernst Offner, Julius Gross, Georg Franz-Willing, Schalom Ben-Chorin, Gustav Mensching, F. W. Kantzenbach, Michael Thomas, Niels-Peter Moritzen, Hans G. Klemm & Gerhard Müller - 1975 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 27 (1-4):256-268.
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    Valdo Vinay: Ecclesiologia ed Etica Politica in Giovanni Calvino. (Biblioteca di Cultura religiosa, Vol. 22), Paideia Editrice Brescia 1973, 200 pp. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1974 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 26 (3):285-287.
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    Hans C. Syz: Vom Sein und vom Sinn. Bericht über ein frühes Erlebnis. Editio Academica, Zürich 1972, 47 pp. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1974 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 26 (1):96-96.
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    Kirchengeschichte.Michael Thomas, F. W. Kantzenbach, Heinz-Jürgen Loth & Jürgen Wilbelm Winterhager - 1979 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 31 (1-4):304-320.
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    Berthold Hinz: Die Malerei im deutschen Faschismus. Kunst und Konterrevolution. , Carl Hanser Verlag München 1974, 320 pp., 167 Abb. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1976 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 28 (3):271-273.
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    Economic impact and public costs of confined animal feeding operations at the parcel level of Craven County, North Carolina.Jungik Kim, Peter Goldsmith & Michael H. Thomas - 2010 - Agriculture and Human Values 27 (1):29-42.
    Conflicts have arisen between communities and operators of confined animal feeding as farms have become bigger in order to maintain their competitiveness. These conflicts have been difficult to resolve because measuring and allocating the benefits and costs of livestock production is difficult. This papers demonstrates a policy tool for promoting compromise whereby the community gets reduced negative impacts from livestock while at the same time continues to benefit from livestock jobs, taxes, and related economic activity. Public economic benefits and public (...)
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    Resisting the Habit of Tlön: Whitehead, Borges, and the Fictional Nature of Concepts.Michael L. Thomas - 2018 - Philosophy and Literature 42 (1):81-96.
    Our interpretations of experience determine the limits of what we can do with the world.Jorge Luis Borges's short stories act as narrative experiments with the potential to alter the reader's experience. They provide momentary glimpses into a remixed reality that, through their vivacity, allow us to wonder at the immanent possibilities that emerge when we acknowledge the irreality of language. This function of Borges's writing follows from his understanding of fictions as imaginative verbal constructions that are effective due to their (...)
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    Quantities of qualia.Michael S. C. Thomas & Anthony P. Atkinson - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1):169-170.
    We address two points in this commentary. First, we question the extent to which O'Brien & Opie have established that the classical approach is unable to support a viable vehicle theory of consciousness. Second, assuming that connectionism does have the resources to support a vehicle theory, we explore how the activity of the units of a PDP network might sum together to form phenomenal experience (PE).
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    Bonaventura. Studien zu seiner Wirkungsgeschichte, hrsg. von Ildefons Vanderheyden OFM. (Franziskanische Forschungen, 28. Heft), Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag Werl/Westf. 1976, 202 pp., 17 Bildtafeln. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1978 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 30 (4):377-378.
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    Walter Shaw Sparrow (Hrsg.): Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri 1413-1463 to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day, Hacker Art Books New York 1976, 332 pp., zahlr. Abb. [REVIEW]Michael Thomas - 1978 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 30 (2):168-170.
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    Zur Ikonographie der Franziskuslegende, besonders der Fresken Giottos in der Oberkirche der Basilika San Francesco in Assisi.Michael Thomas - 1976 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 28 (1-4):245-255.
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    Soziologie und Geschichtswissenschaft.Michael Thomas - 1975 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 27 (3):252-255.
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