Consciousness: Theories in Neuroscience and Philosophy of by Andrea Eugenio Cavanna,Andrea Nani

The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages (Current Studies in Linguistics Book 46)

Within the obstacles of Babel, Andrea Moro tells the tale of an stumble upon among cultures: modern theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. The examine of language inside of a organic context has been ongoing for greater than fifty years. the advance of neuroimaging expertise bargains new possibilities to counterpoint the "biolinguistic point of view" and expand it past an summary framework for inquiry.

The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

Fromm’s easy proposal was once to examine the person as a social being and to examine society as an ensemble of lots of individuals who've not just universal principles and convictions according to a standard perform of lifestyles but in addition a standard psychic constitution. along with his idea of “social personality” he created a brand new interdisciplinary pondering provided during this reader.

On Chinese Culture

This booklet is split into 3 major elements: an creation to theories of tradition, a piece on chinese language tradition, and one on cultural building. the 1st half may be interpreted as an try and discover the meta-theoretical procedure of tradition on the philosophical point. in keeping with the concept that of “culture as methods of living,” the e-book extra defines “culture” as “the practise of people,” together with the tactics through which humans adapt to neighborhood cultural and social customs.

Foucault and the Government of Disability (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)

Foucault and the govt of incapacity is the 1st book-length research of the relevance and significance of the tips of Michel Foucault to the sector of incapacity studies-and vice versa. over the past thirty years, politicized conceptions of incapacity have triggered major social swap, together with the landmark american citizens with Disabilities Act in 1990, the remodel of city landscapes, the looks of closed-captioning on televisions, and the becoming acceptance that disabled humans represent a marginalized and disenfranchised constituency.