Filter by
Emotion, Reason and Action in Kant
This book explores how, in Kant’s world view, our actions are informed, contextualized and dependent on the tension between emotion and reason. Arguing that affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because both hinder the sovereignty of reason, Borges demonstrates Kant’s recognition of the malleability of reason. To this end, the book explores the full range of negative and positive …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781350078376
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 160
Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. As a scholar and researcher, Betty Bastien places Blackfoot tradition within a historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. In sharing her personal story of reclaimed identity, Bastien offers a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experienci…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1-55238-109-9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 191.089 973 52 BAS b
Gender and the Work-Family Experience: An Intersection of Two Domains
Conflict between work and family has been a topic of discussion since the beginning of the women's movement, but recent changes in family structures and workforce demographics have made it clear that the issues impact both women and men. While employers and policymakers struggle to navigate this new terrain, critics charge that the research sector, too, has been slow to respond. Gender and t…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-08890-7
- Collation
- XXIII, 358
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 158.2
Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace
This book employs the image of “shrapnel,” bits of scattered metal that can hit purposeful targets or unwitting bystanders, to narrate the story of workplace power and gender discrimination. The project interweaves stories of gender shrapnel with an examination of national rhetoric surrounding business, education, and law to uncover underlying phenomena that contribute to discourse on privi…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-51462-2
- Collation
- XV, 244
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 177.5
Gender and Land Tenure in the Context of Disaster in Asia
This book employs the image of “shrapnel,” bits of scattered metal that can hit purposeful targets or unwitting bystanders, to narrate the story of workplace power and gender discrimination. The project interweaves stories of gender shrapnel with an examination of national rhetoric surrounding business, education, and law to uncover underlying phenomena that contribute to discourse on privi…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16615-5
- Collation
- XV, 244
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 177.5
Gender in the Vampire Narrative
Gender in the Vampire Narrative addresses issues of masculinity and femininity, unpacking cultural norms of gender. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender in the vampire narrative traverse a large scope of expectations and tropes. The text offers classroom ready original essays that outline contemporary debates about sexual objectification and gender norms using the…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-714-6
- Collation
- X, 196
- Series Title
- Teaching Gender
- Call Number
- 177.5
Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and India
This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women’s autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the levels and the socio-demographic determinants of domestic violence, but topics ranging from men’s attitudes toward wife bea…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16669-8
- Collation
- XIX, 243
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 177.5
Constraints of Agency Explorations of Theory in Everyday Life
This book explores the basic concept of agency and develops it further in psychology using it to better understand and explain psychological processes and behavior. More importantly, this book seeks to put an emphasis on the role of agency in four distinct settings: history of psychology, neuroscience, psychology of religion, and sociocultural theories of co-agency. In Volume 12 of the Annals o…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319101309
- Collation
- xv, 276 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 153
Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy: The Forgotten Pr…
The current volume of the Parmenides Series “On Thinking” addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of “the present,” from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy. Many prominent researchers have contributed articles to the volume, in which they present models and express their opinions on and, in some cases, also their skepticism abou…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-10446-1
- Collation
- X, 274
- Series Title
- On Thinking
- Call Number
- 101
Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty
This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of the…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-15013-0
- Collation
- XIII, 242
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 153
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography