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  • A Pluralist’s Guide to Solving Molyneux’s Problem

    by Brian Glenney ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    This book presents a novel pluralist strategy for answering Molyneux’s 300+-year-old conundrum: Would a person, born blind but given sight, identify a shape previously known only by their touch? The author interweaves historical scholarship with contemporary philosophical work and empirical research on animal, infant, and adult human perception.The author argues that we need a new approach to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy

    Edited by Gabriele Ferretti, Brian Glenney ...
    Series series Rewriting the History of Philosophy
    In 1688 the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke. In it, he asked him a question: could someone who was born blind, and able to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch, be able to immediately distinguish and name these shapes by sight if given the ability to see?The philosophical puzzle offered in Molyneux’s letter fascinated not only Locke, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Defining Sport

    Conceptions and Borderlines

    by Shawn E. Klein, Francisco Javier López Frías, Kevin Schieman, John McClelland, Keith Strudler, Pam R. Sailors, Sarah Teetzel, Charlene Weaving, Chrysostomos Giannoulakis, Lindsay Pursglove0, Brian Glenney1, Teresa González Aja2, Joan Grassbaugh Forry3, Brody J. Ruihley4, Coral Rae5, Joey Gawrysiak6, Andrew Billings7, Dr. Chad Carlson8, Heather L. Reid9 ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy of Sport
    Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better, how they are similar or different, and how they relate to other human endeavors.This definitional ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Senses and the History of Philosophy

    Edited by Brian Glenney, José Silva ...
    Series series Rewriting the History of Philosophy
    The study of perception and the role of the senses have recently risen to prominence in philosophy and are now a major area of study and research. However, the philosophical history of the senses remains a relatively neglected subject. Moving beyond the current philosophical canon, this outstanding collection offers a wide-ranging and diverse philosophical exploration of the senses, from the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Skateboarding and the Senses

    Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces

    by Sander Hölsgens, Brian Glenney ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
    This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of "city craft".Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces. Building on sensory anthropology, the book draws connections between the diverse ways skaters move and their boundless drive for social action – ... Read more

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    Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 2 - Best of Edge Series
    "Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange EverythingMarkingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,editor John Brockman delivers a cutting-edge master class covering everythingyou need to know about ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Child Psychology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Usha Goswami ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers the process of attachment and 'bonding', showing how secure attachments enable the development of self-understanding. Exploring childhood learning, ranging from aspects of language and thinking to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • When Animals Dream

    The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness

    by David M. Peña-Guzmán ...
    A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming. It shows that dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

    by Robert C. Richardson ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Brain Abstracted

    Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience

    by M. Chirimuuta ...
    **Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize from The Royal Institute of PhilosophyWinner of the 2025 Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics and Political ScienceAn exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.**All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research is something as complicated as the brain, this challenge can stretch the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • What Babies Know

    Core Knowledge and Composition Volume 1

    by Elizabeth S. Spelke ...
    Series series Oxford Cognitive Development
    What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers to this question shed light not only on infants but on children and adults in all cultures, because the core knowledge possessed by infants never goes away. Instead, it underlies the unspoken, common sense knowledge of ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Being Brains

    Making the Cerebral Subject

    by Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega ...
    This "interesting, informative, and provocative book" explores the pervasive influence of neuroscience and "the view that we are essentially our brains" (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences).Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which came to prominence in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and ... Read more

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