“…regarding art as well as the discursive perception of art?Modernism as an Institution attempts to answer these questions by studying the frameworks for the institutional establishment, as well as the historiography, of modern art."…”

“…In sum, gendered support, while important to older people's perception of their situation, and often in the patterns of assistance they actually receive, is not determinant of levels of support or of the diverse network arrangements by which family and community networks respond to elderly needs…”

“…It contains both the conventional research areas like mobile robot navigation and map building, and more recent applications such as, micro vision, etc.The fist seven chapters contain the newer applications of vision like micro vision, grasping using vision, behavior based perception, inspection of railways and humanitarian demining. …”

“…Translated and carefully updated from the best-selling Spanish book, La Materia Intangible , this full colour edition explains why light is so fundamental to human perception, how its nature and use are influenced by time and place, and how it has come to be used as a tool for abstract architectural design. …”

“…Considering the abundant promises and euphoric expectations (as well as apocalyptic visions of technology) that still dominate discourses on media and technology my analysis focuses on their cultural and social condition, the specific moment of their emergence, their continuous persistence, their socio-symbolic function, and their implications for social contexts of thought and perception and for hegemonic relations. The techno-deterministic notion of a ‚paradigm change', the proclamation of a ‚radically new' definition of the subject and the idea of a technically conditioned abolition of traditional dichotomies is in fact contrasted by a striking adherence to conventional and dichotome models of thought and of representation, and to the idea of an autonomous and technologically perfectionable subject. …”

“…Other chapters report studies on handedness, hemispheric asymmetries in emotional processing and perception of symmetry in humans. The importance of the degree, or strength, of asymmetry is discussed and the conclusion is that asymmetry of the brain enhances its efficiency. …”

“…In addition to these, a number of short discussions, collectively entitled the Parva Naturalia, focus on the capacities of living beings such as perception, breathing, and sleep"--…”

“…The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming. Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; the problems of fictional emotions and 'imaginative resistance'. …”

“…He looks afresh at the various discussions of essence, perception, scientific method, ethics and meaning, and argues that throughout his epistemology Locke is more concerned with problems of description and analysis than with those of justification. …”
Sumario

“…Critical issues of consciousness and the connection between thinking and acting in Aristotle's philosophical psychology lead to a discussion of the importance of emotion in his theory of virtue. Theories of perception and cognition are highlighted in works such as Aristotle's Posterior"Analytics." …”

“…Two inherently linked perspectives are utilized in this reading of Daniel. First is the perception that the character of Daniel is the paradigm of the good theological hermeneut; theology and hermeneutics are inseparable and converge in the character of Daniel. …”

“…It is a fast-paced tour of the Western philosophical tradition, walking you through age-old questions about God, free will, skepticism, truth and perception and introducing you to distinctive features and methods. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The reality of the world and the intrigues of solipsism -- Acceptance and nonacceptance of the world -- Things in themselves and their cognizability -- Space and time -- Mediated knowledge -- The abstract and the concrete -- Perception, image, concept -- Living nature and the artistic attitude toward it -- Rational thought, dialectical thought, and direct contemplation -- Practice in general and the place of practice in the theory of knowledge -- Practical, theoretical and aesthetic attitudes toward the world, and their unity -- The fundamental positions of materialism and idealism -- Hylozoism and panpsychism -- Hindu mysticism and western European philosophy -- The so-called philosophy of identity -- The sins of mechanistic materialism -- The general laws and relations of being -- Teleology -- Freedom and necessity -- The organism -- Modern science and dialectical materialism -- The sociology of thought: labor and thought as social-historical categories -- The sociology of thought: mode of production and mode of representation -- On so-called racial thought -- Social position, thought, and "experience" -- The object of philosophy -- The subject of philosophy -- The interaction of subject and object -- Society as the object and subject of mastering -- Truth: the concept of truth and the criterion of the truthful -- Truth: absolute and relative truth -- The good -- Hegel's dialectical idealism as a system -- The dialectics of Hegel and the dialectics of Marx -- Dialectics as science and dialectics as art -- Science and philosophy -- Evolution -- Theory and history -- The social ideal -- Lenin as a philosopher…”

“…Some of the features of Aristotle's theory of abstraction developed in this book include: abstraction is a relation; perception and knowledge are types of abstraction; the objects generated by abstractions are relata which can serve as subjects in their own right, whereupon they can appear as items in other categories. …”

“…Thirteen distinguished contributors have selected a rhetorical figure with a special currency in Renaissance writing, and have used it as a key to one of the period's characteristic modes of perception, forms of argument, states of feeling, or styles of reading…”
Sumario

“…The first four chapters of this book demonstrate that arguments supporting a rival theory, the perceptual theory of emotions, which sees emotions as perception-like states that help us gain evaluative knowledge, are problematic…”

“…Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds. …”

“…The contributors to this volume introduce new perspectives on this issue, analytically and empirically exploring reasons for this perception. Negative assessments of institutional competition emphasize that such competition may lead to a race to the bottom in terms of eroding government revenues, redistributing wealth from workers to capitalists, and limiting democracy by forcing politicians to prioritize international investment capital rather than working for their voters. …”

“…Individual chapters deal next with cognition, perception, and learning; social development; environmental influences on ability, achievement and motivation; identity, personality, and lifestyle; affect and emotion; and well-being and health. …”

“…Descartes is traditionally credited with inaugurating a new kind of scepticism by saying that the direct objects of perception are images in the mind, not external objects, but Adriaenssen shows that as early as the thirteenth century, critics had already found similar problems in Aquinas's theory of representation. …”