Psychology

The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these pap...

A robbery victim tries to remember how the crime unfolded and who was present at the scene. A medical patient recalls the doctor saying that the pa...

One of the hardest problems in the history of Western philosophy has been to explain whether and how experience can provide knowledge (or even just...

What is forgiveness? When is it appropriate? How is it encouraged or inhibited? Answering these questions one way rather than another can alter our...

This book considers how expressions involving number are used by speakers and understood by hearers. A speaker's choice of expression can be a comp...

Emotions shape our mental and social lives. Their relation to morality is, however, problematic. Since ancient times, philosophers have disagreed a...

Why do some children take up music, while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst others give up? Why do some children favour classical music, whils...

What are the origins of greatness? Few other questions have caused such intense debate, controversy, and diversity of opinions. In recent years, a ...

This edited volume brings together eighteen articles which examine the role of erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. Arising out of a confer...

The epistemology and the phenomenology of perception are closely related insofar as both depend on experiences of self-evident objectivity--experie...

While much has been written on Descartes' theory of mind and ideas, no systematic study of his theory of sensory representation and misrepresentati...

Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethni...

What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz offers a new answer to an ancient question which has recently returned to the philosophical ag...

David Henderson and Terence Horgan set out a broad new approach to epistemology, which they see as a mixed discipline, having both a priori and emp...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to prod...

Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and...

This text proposes a new integrative framework for understanding and promoting creatively adaptive thinking. The mind is not only cognition, narrow...

What mediates between sensory input and motor output? This is probably the most basic question one can ask about the mind. There is stimulation on ...

This book is a collection of papers by clinicians united in their conviction about the importance of directly engaging and interacting with the bab...

Adult cognitive development is one of the most important yet most neglected aspects in the study of human psychology. Although the development of c...

Since Juan Uriagereka originated the multiple spell-out model in 1999 it has been one of the most influential lines of research in syntactic theori...

It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain t...