Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was thought to be too difficult, or because the relevant evidence was thought to be poor. Bernard Baars suggests a way to specify empirical constraints on a theory of consciousness by contrasting well-established consciou...(展开全部)

'A clear-eyed, open-minded analysis of the problems of consciousness, and a wide-ranging synthesis of a variety of approaches. For those who want to join the race to model consciousness, this is the starting line.' Daniel C. Dennett 'With this model, the author sweeps through dozens of phenomena that are well known to students of sensation, perception, learning abstraction, lan...(展开全部)

Can neurophysiology ever reveal to us what it is like to smell a skunk or to experience pain? In what does the feeling of happiness consist? How is it that changes in the white and gray matter composing our brains generate subjective sensations and feelings? These are several of the questions that Michael Tye addresses, while formulating a new and enlightening theory about the ...(展开全部)

Presents a comprehensive theory of human motivation and action from a social-cognitive perspective. This insightful text addresses the prominent roles played by cognitive, vicarious, self-regulatory, and self-reflective processes in psychosocial functioning; emphasizes reciprocal causation through the interplay of cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors; and systematic...(展开全部)

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious. What is the difference between the two? Uriah Kriegel offers the following answer: whatever else they may represent, conscious mental states always represent themselves (whereas unconscious ones do not, at least not in the right way). The book develops this 'self-representational' approach to consciousness along several di...(展开全部)

霍华德·里萨蒂，弗吉尼亚联邦大学艺术史系当代艺术与批判理论名誉教授，曾任工艺材料研究系主任。其著作包括Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, Postmodern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art。 译者简介 陈勇，历史学博士、助理研究员，现供职于南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院。

霍华德·里萨蒂，弗吉尼亚联邦大学艺术史系当代艺术与批判理论名誉教授，曾任工艺材料研究系主任。其著作包括Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, Postmodern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art。 译者简介 陈勇，历史学博士、助理研究员，现供职于南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院。

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs—communication and signification—and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.