age ~80
from Forked River, NJ
This translation of Thomas Bernhard's "Der Weltverbesserer" makes a contemporary masterpiece available to English language readers for the first time. While echoing the dramatic works of Samuel Becket, Heiner Muller and Peter Handke, "The World-Fixer" is quintessentially Bernardian and one of his mo...
Author
Thomas Bernhard
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
93
Publisher
Ariadne Pr
ISBN #
1572411422
EAN Code
9781572411425
ISBN #
6
Imitation is not the low-level, cognitively undemanding behavior it is often assumed to be, but rather--along with language and the ability to understand other minds--one of a trio of related capacities that are fundamental to human mentality. In these landmark volumes, leading researchers across a ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
451
Publisher
A Bradford Book
ISBN #
0262083361
EAN Code
9780262083362
ISBN #
5
Imitation is not the low-level, cognitively undemanding behavior it is often assumed to be, but rather--along with language and the ability to understand other minds--one of a trio of related capacities that are fundamental to human mentality. In these landmark volumes, leading researchers across a ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
456
Publisher
A Bradford Book
ISBN #
0262582503
EAN Code
9780262582506
ISBN #
4
Are there any human rights that apply to all women and all men in all cultures at all times? Can we ground human rights in an abstract rationality possessed by every human being? Or, as some philosophers have claimed, are attempts to ground human rights doomed to failure? Do human rights in any case...
Author
Stephen Shute, Susan Hurley
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN #
046505224X
EAN Code
9780465052240
ISBN #
3
To what extent can animal behaviour be described as rational? What does it even mean to describe behaviour as rational? This book focuses on one of the major debates in science today - how closely does mental processing in animals resemble mental processing in humans. It addresses the question of wh...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
568
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0198528272
EAN Code
9780198528272
ISBN #
2
In this important book, Susan Hurley sheds new light on consciousness by examining its relationships to action from various angles. She assesses the role of agency in the unity of a conscious perspective, and argues that perception and action are more deeply interdependent than we usually assume. A...
Author
S. L. Hurley
Binding
Paperback
Pages
518
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674007964
EAN Code
9780674007963
ISBN #
1
Susan Lynn Hurley (September 16, 1954 August 16, 2007) was appointed professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of ...