Faith, Rationality and the Passions

Reducere. Scot Sellers shares his 10 essential lessons gleaned from a life devoted to better understanding relationships and sources of real satisfaction. Re...

Faith and Rationality investigates the rich implications of what the authors call "Calvinistic" or "Reformed epistemology." This is the view of kno...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

Reducere. In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideo...

An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with a preface and a conclusion by the author.Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s):...

What Would You Focus On If You Were No Longer Weighed Down By Your Unwanted Responsibilities?If you want to add something meaningful to your life, ...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

Reducere. This book deals with something that you may have never even heard of, the doctrine of divine impassibility. Impassibility is not a word often used ...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

Reducere. We inhabit extraordinary times: times in which we are acutely aware of the intensity of what revolutionary thinker Frantz Fanon called "the glare o...

Reducere. In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of ...

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, ...

This volume presents a selection of John Broome's most important work since 2000 in an area of philosophy where he has led the way. Topics discusse...

Reducere. DescriptionDoes cognitive science show that religious belief is irrational?Kelly James Clark brings together science and philosophy to examine some...

Resistance used to mean irrational and reactionary behaviour, assuming that rationality resides on the side of progress and its parties. The end of...

The first text to integrate a range of psychological approaches under the paradigm of Behavioral Political Science, giving students insights into u...

Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory, 'Improving Passions' is an in...

Recognising that the economy is a complex system with boundedly rational interacting agents, the book presents a theory of behavioural rationality ...

Reducere. DescriptionPhysicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body--blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler--determining a pe...

A sympathetic yet honest and nonjudgmental account that goes behind the palace doors and into the private lives of these iconic public figures Thei...

Marino Marini: Visual Passions places the postwar Italian sculptor (1901-80) and his famed equestrian figures in their art-historical context for t...

Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for ...

"It's like the story of Little Town, " an influential actor says in Rationality and Power when choosing a metaphor to describe how he manipulated r...

Is contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant? The structures of knowledge, taken for granted since Kant's Critique of Pure Reaso...

DescriptionFor centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate w...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrat...

Senior New Testament scholar F. Scott Spencer focuses on a neglected area in the study of Jesus and the Gospels: the emotional life of Jesus. This ...

Offers a theory of rationality, the one characteristic deemed to fix humanity's "specialness." This book combines speculations with investigations ...