Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

Perception is influenced both by the immediate pattern of sensory inputs and by memories
acquired through prior experiences with the world. Throughout much of its illustrious history …

Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than
theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an …

The first edition of Place and Experience established Jeff Malpas as one of the leading
philosophers and thinkers of place and space and provided a creative and refreshing …

Arestatement of Gibson's views about" ecological optics" and the nature of space perception
in particular; also expounds the basis for a general theory of perception. Harvard Book List …

When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in
1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in …

T he Enlightenment mind clustered around an extraordinary dichotomy. Intellectual
historians usually summarize this split in terms of subject/object, fact/value, or …

This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In
approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person …

This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so
malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates philosophical and …