This chapter reviews theories and research on consumer decision making. We characterize
the properties of the consumer decision-making task and the consumer information …

Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective
sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what …

The medieval curriculum comprised seven liberal arts, divided into the lower-level trivium
(grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the upper-level quadrivium (geometry, astronomy …

How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily
interactions? Through the use of such" folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and …

MANY theories have been advanced over the years to explain why people behave as they
do. Until recently the most common view, popularized by various personality doctrines …

In this major new work, John Searle launches a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in
the philosophy of mind. More than anything else, he argues, it is the neglect of …

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present
as a superseding standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence …

In Complexity and Postmodernism, Paul Cilliers explores the idea of complexity in the light
of contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science. Cilliers offers us a unique …

" This volume presents an attempt to construct a unified cognitive theory of science in
relatively short compass. It confronts the strong program in sociology of science and the …

This is a very odd—but good—book. Its scope is almost as broad as that of any general text
on Artificial Intelligence (AI), but it is not an overview of issues and research in AI. Instead …