This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages.
This fascinating book explores the concept of slow living, offering a philosophical and psychological exploration of the need for a slower pace of life.
Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories of concepts, and the inputs of the budding neuropsychology of concepts.
Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind presents cutting-edge work in the philosophy of mind, combining invited articles and articles selected from submissions.
This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course.
Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech.
This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term 'femminicidio', or 'femicide', entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election.
This volume contains Russell's reviews of and introductions to other philosophical works including his famous introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life.
Despite recent advances in Locke scholarship, philosophers and political theorists have paid little attention to the relations among his three greatest works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de Tolerantia.
Theoretical and empirical accounts of the interconnectedness between the manual and the mental suggest that the hand can be understood as a cognitive instrument.
The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure.
Chaque jour, des millions de femmes partout dans le monde sont confrontées propos de Felicity Huffman aux mêmes problèmes physiques et émotionnels: baisse de libido, gain de poids, insatisfaction sexuelle, stress chronique, anxiété, déséquilibres hormonaux, infertilité, troubles du sommeil, manque de concentration, SPM, complications liées à la périménopause et à la ménopause et, surtout, une fatigue inexplicable qui domine tout.
This book investigates the ubuntu theory-based conception of virtue and moral character formation in the northern, western, and eastern regions of Africa, suggesting a critical reconstruction of ubuntu by conceptualising the four different forms of practices in moral character formation.
There are few more unsettling philosophical questions than this: What happens in attempts to reduce some properties to some other more fundamental properties?
Nach seinem dialogischen Kommentar zu Hegels »Phänomenologie des Geistes« rekonstruiert Pirmin Stekeler jetzt die »Wissenschaft der Logik« als Überbietung von Kants »Kritik der reinen Vernunft«.
This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy.
This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about.
Das Buch liefert erstmals eine wirtschaftsrelevante Systemik des Unbewussten, die aufzeigt, in welch hohem Maße Entscheidungen in Wirtschaft und Politik von unbewussten Haltungen ihrer Akteure bestimmt werden.
