This collection of articles includes speculative and classical theories about what is known and believed about the visual, the eye, and the work of the brain in understanding visual communications. Th
Wahrisch-Oblau, who now heads the evangelism department of the United Evangelical Mission, presents an edited version of her doctoral dissertation Migrants With a Mission (Heidelberg U., 2007). She fi
This study examines the history of a fundamental problem in Aristotelian cognitive psychology, i.e. the nature and function of the mechanisms that provide the human mind with data concerning physical
Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. This can be done through lexical means, and through grammatical evidentials. The studies presented here focus
Historians and scholars of literature and music, all but one American, take chastity as a lens into basic historical problems, mostly relating to the Middle Ages. Their topics include failed chastity
Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, and Applications is a one-of-a-kind, collective effort to present -theoretically and practically- the most utilized and known methods on timing and ti
This collection of essays considers the challenging questions around the formation, establishment and continuation of the Julio-Claudian principate from the coming to power of Augustus. Augustus laid
Print, Profit, and Perception examines the dramatic knowledge expansion and dynamic cross-cultural exchanges occurring in China and Taiwan from 1895 to 1949. The nine chapters, heavily case-studied, c
This volume explores the significance of the physical materials and contexts of inscribed texts in Greek and Roman antiquity and their performative roles in ancient society from an anthropological and
This new edition and translation, with introduction and commentary, of the Nag Hammadi tractate, The Concept of Our Great Power, is a fresh approach to the interpretation of this puzzling document.
In Perception and the Internal Senses Juhana Toivanen offers a philosophical reconstruction of Peter of John Olivi’s (ca. 1248-98) conception of the cognitive psychology of the sensitive or animal sou
This study contains a detailed record of the history and development of Kurokawa n, the processes of its transmission over the generations and its impact on the wider cultural life of Japan. "Kurokawa
Wahrisch-Oblau, who now heads the evangelism department of the United Evangelical Mission, presents an edited version of her doctoral dissertation Migrants With a Mission (Heidelberg U., 2007). Follow
The main purpose of this book is to offer a comprehensive historical analysis of the discussions on a crucial problem for the early modern theory of knowledge: the formal mediation of sensible reality
