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  • Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds

    Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance

    de Donald Beecher ...
    In Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds, Donald Beecher explores the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of the brain as they affect the study of fiction. He builds upon insights from the cognitive sciences to explain how we actualize imaginary persons, read the clues to their intentional states, assess their representations of selfhood, and empathize with their felt experiences in imaginary ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds

    Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance

    de Donald Beecher ...
    In Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds, Donald Beecher explores the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of the brain as they affect the study of fiction. He builds upon insights from the cognitive sciences to explain how we actualize imaginary persons, read the clues to their intentional states, assess their representations of selfhood, and empathize with their felt experiences in imaginary ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Taking Exception to the Law

    Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

    Edición de Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, Grant Williams ...
    Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period.Justice ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

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  • Within Reason

    Rationality and Human Behavior

    de Donald Calne ...
    It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B. Calne investigates the phenomenon of rationality from an astonishingly wide array of ... Leer más

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  • Moral Luck

    Philosophical Papers 1973–1980

    de Bernard Williams ...
    A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both broadened and deepened ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • On Difficulty

    And Other Essays

    de George Steiner ...
    A distinguished collection of essays on language, literature, and philosophy from acclaimed scholar and critic George SteinerOn Difficulty is as provocative and relevant today as when its essays were first published. Ranging from critical topics such as the understanding of language to the meaning of meaning, inward speech to the relationship between erotic sensibility and linguistic convention, ... Leer más

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  • Meaning and Melancholia

    Life in the Age of Bewilderment

    de Christopher Bollas ...
    Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and ‘frames of ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Human Agency and Language

    de Charles Taylor ...
    Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental traditions in philosophy. A selection of his published papers is presented here in two volumes, structured to indicate the direction and essential ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Prejudice

    Its Social Psychology

    de Rupert Brown ...
    This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments.Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individual behavior as part of a pattern of intergroup processesCovers the major research, including classical personality accounts, developmental approaches, ... Leer más

    $47.00 USD

  • Taking Care

    An Alternative to Therapy

    de David Smail ...
    Taking Care established the author as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work the author develops the analysis of mental illness, and psychology in general, in the contexts of society, power and interest. People's experience is embodied in the world in which they exist. Notwithstanding the claims of some, psychology cannot, in ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Religion

    What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

    de Christian Smith ...
    A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past.Drawing on the philosophy ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Philosophy of Religion

    Towards a More Humane Approach

    de John Cottingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
    Religious belief is not just about abstract intellectual argument; it also impinges on all aspects of human life. John Cottingham's Philosophy of Religion opens up fresh perspectives on the philosophy of religion, arguing that the detached neutrality of much of contemporary philosophizing may be counterproductive - hardening us against the receptivity required for certain kinds of important ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD