Susan Lynn Hurley (September 16, 1954 August 16, 2007) was appointed professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of ...
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...
Thomas Bernhard
Hardcover
93
Ariadne Pr
1572411422
9781572411425
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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 ...
Hardcover
451
A Bradford Book
0262083361
9780262083362
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 ...
Paperback
456
A Bradford Book
0262582503
9780262582506
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...
Stephen Shute, Susan Hurley
Paperback
272
Basic Books
046505224X
9780465052240
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...
Paperback
568
Oxford University Press
0198528272
9780198528272
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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...
S. L. Hurley
Paperback
518
Harvard University Press
0674007964
9780674007963
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