Behavioral Sciences
epub |eng | 2018-09-13 | Author:Wittmann, Marc; Hurd, Philippa;

Notes 1. Karl Jaspers, Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 3rd ed. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925), 112. 2. See, for example, the ideas of the sociologist Hartmut Rosa in Social Acceleration: A New ...
( Category: Neurology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Jacobs, Alan;

What lies at the heart of this “affinity”? “Both seek knowledge for the sake of power (in Bacon’s words, as ‘a spouse for fruit,’ not a ‘curtesan for pleasure’), both ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Epictetus [Epictetus]

From the Discourses This part of the current work is a translation of nine excerpts from three of the four extant books of Epictetus’s Discourses. These books in total comprise ...
( Category: Social Philosophy January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Ken Richardson

BASIC PRESUPPOSITIONS Theories of cognition today, are, basically, elaborations of one or the other (or some combination) of three sets of presuppositions. These have been around for at least the ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-08 | Author:Brian C. Gunia

Table 5.2 Your Costs and Benefits from Trades How to fulfill my needs with their offeringsHow to fulfill their needs with my offerings Customers Revenue • Spend more money as ...
( Category: Economics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:unknow

Chapter 4 Europe Disunited “The old, fragmented Europe has given way to a European Union made up of twenty-five nations and 450 million citizens. It has more people, more wealth, ...
( Category: Historical January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Mercier, Hugo

Is Bias Always Bad? How should cognitive mechanisms in general go about producing sound beliefs? Part of the answer, it seems, is that they should be free of bias. Biases ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Simler, Kevin; Hanson, Robin;

EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM To appreciate the contrast between our ideals and our actual behavior, it helps to portray what ideal charitable behavior looks like. Luckily, others have done this job for ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Alain Berthoz & Giselle Weiss

The Bottleneck Hypothesis A paradoxical consequence of cerebral vicariance may be bottlenecks in certain areas. For example, damage to the language region on the left side may be compensated for ...
( Category: Biology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-03-02 | Author:Hanno Sauer

This loosens the tracking relation between sentimentalism’s psychological and its metaphysical component, because now we can imagine cases where the former becomes disconnected from the latter. I might have endorsed ...
( Category: Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Pascal Boyer [Boyer, Pascal]

The Psychology of Exchange However limited compared to modern commerce, prehistoric trade demonstrates that humans had at some point developed the specific psychological capacities that make it possible to exchange ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-29 | Author:Dennett, Daniel C.;

IV With those qualifications and excuses behind me, I turn to the decisive question. Suppose an entity were all wired up in some fashion so as to realize the flow ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Leon Anderson [Anderson, Leon]

CROSS-CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF ALCOHOL ABUSE All alcoholic drinks have the chemical ethanol (C2H5OH) as their base. Ethanol can be produced from a wide variety of starchy foods, including honey, sugar ...
( Category: Violence in Society January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Suparna Roychoudhury

Imagination may be given to inconsistency (“fixed in some, in some with difference”) and predisposed to recursive solipsism (“selfe-application”); yet it remains the necessary intermediary between “Sense” and “vnderstanding.” These ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Skidelsky, Robert [Skidelsky, Robert]

Figure 36. Post-crash outcomes: Germany, Greece and Eurozone47 Figure 37. UK austerity – counterfactual medicine48 Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University calculates the cost of austerity up to 2017 as between ...
( Category: Economic Policy January 19,2020 )