An alarming number of philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that mind extends beyond the brain and body. This book evaluates these arguments and suggests that, typically, it does not. * A timely and relevant study that exposes the need to develop a more sophisticated theory of cognition, while pointing to a bold new direction in exploring the nature of cognition * A...(展开全部)

An alarming number of philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that mind extends beyond the brain and body. This book evaluates these arguments and suggests that, typically, it does not. A timely and relevant study that exposes the need to develop a more sophisticated theory of cognition, while pointing to a bold new direction in exploring the nature of cognition Art...(展开全部)

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis show...(展开全部)

'Strawson offers something which is to be found in very few books on this great philosopher: a discussion which is, on the one side, sy mpathetic, appreciative and well informed, without ever ceasing to be critical and independent on the other.' Philosophical Books ` ... his reconstruction of Kant's central argument was not only exciting in its own day, but remains a paradigm a...(展开全部)

Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition identifies what the differences are, and suggests where they might have come...(展开全部)

迈克尔·托马塞洛是马克斯·普朗克进化人类学研究所的联合主任，该研究所位于德国的莱比锡。他的其他著作有：《最初的动词：早期语法发展的个案研究》(First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development)，还有与人合著的《灵长类动物的认知》(Primate Cognition)。

What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors consider them as concrete biological questions. Their analysis is bold and provocative, for the authors have constructed a systematic theoretical biology which attempts to define livi...(展开全部)

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences--from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis sho...(展开全部)

姚治华，波士顿大学哲学博士，现为香港中文大学哲学系教授，主要研究领域为佛教哲学、印度哲学、宗教哲学和心智哲学，主要著作包括The Buddhist Theory of Self- Cognition(Routledge 2005), Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion（与Ithamar Theodor合编，Lexington Books 2014）, Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not(Bloomsbury Academic 2020)，在Journal of Indian Philosophy, Philosop...(展开全部)