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Peter Carruthers, a leading philosopher of mind, provides a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi-independent modules. Written with unusual clarity and directness, and surveying an extensive range of research in cognitive science,...

Anthropology and HistoryWhat is legalism and what counts as law? How do legal concepts work in a range of historical and ethnographic settings? The problems anthropology and history share in dealing with law are addressed here from a range of perspectives including medieval England and France, Burma, India, Saharan oases, and southern Arabia....

Information and Citizenship in the 21st CenturyOnline news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of...

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Sound Sentiments seeks to open a new path in the philosophy of emotion. The focus of most recent work on the philosophy of emotion has been on the nature of emotion, with some attention also to the relation of emotion to ethics. This book explores the idea that emotions admit of valuation, of degrees of adequacy. What does it mean for emotion to be...