From the dusty back roads of Carson Creek and busy streets of downtown Willowgrove, to racing under the stars at the local drag strip, The Ballad of Carson Creek - Class of '61 takes you on a nostalgic journey through a simpler time, when happiness was an ice-cold bottle of Coke and a tank full of gas, love was a pretty head on a strong shoulder, and life was brimming with freedom and possibility. Join headstrong Toby LaRue and his '34 Ford in this captivating coming-of-age tale, through the Rockwellian, carefree innocence that was mid-century America.

The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the exercise of agency, meaning "the power to alter at will one's perceptual inputs." The thesis is derived from a philosphical account of the role of agency in knowledge.; The book is divided into three parts. In Part One, the author argues that "purely representational" theories of mind and of mental development have been overvalued, thereby clearing the ground for the book's central thesis. In Part Two, he proposes that, because objective experience depends upon...