Product Description: Experience is a very basic concept and, at the same time, an extremely complex subject. How does our everyday experience as a human being relate with scientific knowledge and moral conduct? What kind of mutual relationship lies between human experience, reason and faith? This book gathers the results of a joint philosophical research which puts human experience in question from the diverse perspectives of a selected group of scholars...read more

Product Description: Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense felt by a group when their life together takes on full meaning. The experience of communitas, almost beyond strict definition and with almost endless variations, often appears unexpectedly...read more

Product Description: Arguing that a genuine aesthetic experience is a perceptual state of consciousness, free of thought, author Ha Poong Kim characterizes the nature of an aesthetic experience as subjectless, objectless, timeless, revelatory, and joyous...read more

Product Description: Leaders in all stages of life will find To Plant a Walnut Tree to be a guide for sharing wisdom in a practical way. Creating a legacy can be in the thoughts of twenty-somethings and soon-to-be retirees alike; author Trevor Waldock suggests that readers “plant walnut trees,” or sew small investments for future generations...read more

Product Description: What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all sorts of complex properties...read more

Product Description: This book explains the key concepts that surround the issue as well as the nature of the hard problem and the several approaches to it. It gives a comprehensive treatment of the phenomenon, incorporating its main metaphysical and epistemic aspects as well as recent empirical findings, such as the phenomena of blindsight, change blindness, visual-form agnosia and optic ataxia, mirror recognition in other primates, split-brain cases, and visual extinction...read more

Product Description: Which objects and properties are represented in perceptual experience, and how are we able to determine this? The papers in this collection address these questions together with other fundamental questions about the nature of perceptual content...read more

This text integrates the latest research on human sexuality with an engaging writing style and a pedagogy that guides students through the learning process. "Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity" examines the psychology and science of sexuality. The text examines the rich diversity found in sexuality whether it is in gender roles, cultural backgrounds, sexual attitudes, sexual behaviors or customs. Combined with this examination of the diversity in human sexuality, this text helps students develop their own opinions by teaching them critical thinking skills, personal sexual health, and responsible decision-making. Anyone interested in learning more about human sexuality.

Product Description: Scholars examine Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s work in the context of the Portuguese-speaking world

Product Description: Proposes an original existential-phenomenological theory of knowledge, philosophical systems, and theory of the world. The theory is developed through a critical analysis of the epistemology and metaphysics of C.I. Lewis, and is built around the idea of interpersonal understanding and poetic language...read more

Product Description: In the philosophic world today, pragmatism and phenomenology can be found standing at a crossroad. Though each has arrived there via divergent paths and for very different reasons, the direction that each takes in the future may be significantly influenced by the suggestions the other has to offer...read more