Translating feminism in China : gender, sexuality and censorship

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The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance

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Identity and the natural environment :the psychological significance of nature

The often impassioned nature of environmental conflicts can be attributed to the fact that they are bound up with our sense of personal and social identity. Environmental identity--how we orient ourselves to the natural world--leads us to personalize abstract global issues and take action (or not) according to our sense of who we are. We may know about the greenhouse effect--but can we give up …

Natural minds

"A Bradford book."In Natural Minds Thomas Polger advocates, and defends, the philosophical theory that mind equals brain--that sensations are brain processes--and in doing so brings the mind-brain identity theory back into the philosophical debate about consciousness. The version of identity theory that Polger advocates holds that conscious processes, events, states, or properties are type- ide…

Time and identity

The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience—it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all—and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn questions about id…

Neurophilosophy :toward a unified science of the mind-brain.

Five chapters in the book's first part, "Some Elementary Neuroscience," sketch the history of the science of nervous systems and provide a general introduction to neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropsychology. In the second part, "Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science," chapters place the mind-body problem within the wider context of the philosophy of science. Drawing on recent …

Individual and collective memory consolidation :analogous processes on differ…

An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia.We form individual memories by a process known as consolidation: the conversion of immediate and fleeting bits of information into a stable and accessible representation of facts and events. These memories provide a version of the past that helps us navigate the pr…

G?odel, Putnam, and functionalism :a new reading of Representation and reality

"A Bradford book."The first systematic examination of Hilary Putnam's arguments against computational functionalism challenges each of Putnam's main arguments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Gender(s)

"An EKS title that examines gender as a complex fluid concept in transition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Persistence :contemporary readings

Influential accounts of persistence?p0b4show ordinary objects persist through time?p0b4sexamine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.