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Action, Emotion and Willby Anthony Kenny
Routledge 2003; US$ 31.95Almost forty years on from its original publication, Kenny's account of action and emotion is still essential reading. One of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action. more...
Breakdown of Willby George Ainslie
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 32.00Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. This perspective helps us understand puzzling aspects of human action and interaction: from self-defeating behaviors to subtler forms of behavior such as altruism. A profound and expert account of human irrationality. more...
Human Errorby George A. Peters
CRC Press 2006; US$ 79.95Applying and extending principles that can help prevent consumer error, worker fault, managerial mistakes, and organizational blunders, Human Error: Causes and Control provides useful information on theories, methods, and specific techniques for controlling human error. It forms a how-to manual of good practice, focusing on identifying human error, its causes, and how to control or prevent it. It presents constructs that assist in optimizing human performance and to achieve higher safety goals. Human Error: Causes and Control bridges the gap and illustrates the means for achieving a comprehensive, fully integrated, process compatible, user effective, methodologically sound model. more...
Self-Help, Inc.by Micki McGee
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 30.00Asks what our seemingly insatiable demand for self-help can tell us about ourselves. Rather than finding an America that is narcissistic or self-involved, the author sees a nation relying on self-help culture for advice on how to cope in a volatile and competitive work world. more...
The Construction of Preferenceby Sarah Lichtenstein; Paul Slovic
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 44.00When asked to make a decision, people often don't really know what they want; they must construct their preferences 'on the spot'. This book describes the concept of preference construction, tracing the blossoming of this idea within psychology, economics, marketing, law, and environmental policy. more...
The Inner Life of a Rational Agentby Rowland Stout
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 107.46A radical approach to the philosophy of mind, in which states of mind are identified with dispositions to behave in certain ways. The approach taken by Rowland Stout is a thoroughly up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to other sorts of things. Properly understood, the idea of being disposed to behave in a certain way is seen to be exactly as rich and interesting as the idea of being in a certain state of mind. The fact that our ways of behaving are sensitive to practical rationality is taken to be an essential aspect of our nature as conscious agents. And in describing such a version of practical rationality... more...
Appetite and Food Intakeby Ruth B.S. Harris
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 129.95Providing an integrative approach, this book reviews the status of basic and applied research, while considering behavioral and physiological influences on obesity and the regulation of food intake. It also covers macronutrients, micronutrients, and meal patterning. more...
The Willby Brian O'Shaughnessy
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 28.00O'Shaughnessy investigates bodily action in a new edition of this classic work of analytical philosophy. more...
Intentional Conceptual Changeby Gale M. Sinatra; Paul R. Pintrich
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 150.00This volume brings together a distinguished, international list of scholars to explore the role of the learner's intention in knowledge change. Traditional views of knowledge reconstruction placed the impetus for thought change outside the learner's contr more...
On Willing Selvesby Sabine Maasen; Barbara Sutter
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 95.00The neurosciences propose that the concept of will is scientifically untenable - it is our brain rather than our 'self' that controls our choices. Yet we seem to be confronted with increasing free choice in all areas of life. Using up-to-date empirical research in the social sciences and philosophy, this volume addresses the seeming contradiction. more...