How the Mind Comes into Being: Introducing Cognitive Science from a Functional and Computational Perspective
Martin V. Butz and Esther F. Kutter
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More than 2000 years ago Greek philosophers were pondering the puzzling dichotomy between our...
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience
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In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing...
The Subject of Experience
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The Subject of Experience is about the self, the person. It takes the form of a series of essays...
Standard Colorimetry: Definitions, Algorithms and Software
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Colour is a sensation and as such it is a subjective and incommunicable quantity. Colour measurement...
Addiction and Choice: Rethinking the Relationship
Nick Heather and Gabriel Segal
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The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways...
Anxiety and Personality: The Concept of a Directing Object and Its Applications
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The concept of a "directing object" is based on extensive clinical observations linked to a...
Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea
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In the 18th century, the Royal Navy's own physician found that sailors were seven times more likely...
Religion and Ecological Crisis: The Lynn White Thesis at Fifty
Todd LeVasseur and Anna Peterson
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In 1967, Lynn White, Jr.'s seminal article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis was...
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
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The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind:...
Abandon Me: Memoirs
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For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that...