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The chapters in this volume are related to the conference, Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution, that was held at the Glendon campus of York University, Toronto, in October of 1993. The original idea for the conference came from a debate on this subject between Jerome Bruner and Stuart Shanker, which appeared in the pages of the journal Language and Communication. As Johnson explains in more de…

This book is about neurophilosophy. It aims to take stock of various philosophical problems concerning the nature of the mind, given the recent bonanza of developments in neuroscience and cognitive science. In finding a path through the thicket of relevant neuroscientific studies and discoveries, I found material assembling itself into two classical categories: metaphysics and epistemology. Eth…

Appropriating and modifying the sociological concept of role distance, the chapter highlights the impersonal way in which legal actors enact their roles and reveals their avowedly strategic forms of communication as weapons deployed within what is sometimes a literally life-and-death agon. In a coercion-saturated environment, speech is the continuation of force by other, and milder, means. Chap…

The essays in this collection represent a variety of positions on a number of topics: the nature of emotion, the category of emotion, the rationality of emotions, the relationship between an emotion and its expression, the relationship between emotion, motivation, and action, the biological nature versus social construction of emotion, the role of the body in emotion, the extent of freedom and …

Tahun Terbit

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Edisi

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-252465-0

Deskripsi Fisik

xxi, 235p. : 21 cm

No. Panggil

320.01/ Poj/ g