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In this ground-breaking study Malcolm Vale restores the thirteenth and fourteenth century courts to their rightful place in the cultural history of western Europe. By examining both surviving works of art and the evidence of household and other accounts he illuminates the richness and abundance of artistic, literary, and musical life at the courts...

Experts in neuroscience and artificial intelligence provide accessible expository chapters that address many challenging questions concerning human and animal emotions, and their possible analogs in the "e;brains"e; of robots, both now and in the future. What do we know of emotions in the animal and human brain? What are their...

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. David Benatar presents a startling challenge to these assumptions. He argues that people systematically overestimate the quality of their life, and suffer quite serious harms by coming into existence....

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On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue EpistemologyJason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based        virtue-epistemology -- an approach in which intellectual character traits are given        a central and fundamental role. He examines the nature and structure of an        intellectual virtue and accounts for the role of...