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An Essay on the Origin of IdeasFor centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual        representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building        blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic        cognition. He shows that much of cognition occurs by means of...

Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860The lives of the first free blacks in America are vividly described in In Hope of Liberty, spanning the 200 years and eight generations from the colonial slave trade through the American Revolution to, finally, the Civil War. In this marvelously peopled history, James and Lois...

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As screening programs for HIV, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, gene abnormalities and other risk factors continue to proliferate, questions continue to be raised about the impact of these programs on the emotions and behaviour of participants. Now, for the first time the widely scattered body of research on the effects of risk factor...

In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics....

This collection reconsiders and extends reception research in literary studies, book history, and media/cultural studies and marks out new directions for such work by reevaluating its methodologies and by examining not only traditional American literature but also women's, African-American, and multicultural literatures, popular culture, the...