Dalam bidang seni, filsafat, dan sastra, era ini disebut era posmodern. Buku ini menjelaskan beberapa kemungkinan akan adanya sebuah disiplin psikologi dalam lanskap kultur posmodern. Bab-bab yang dimuat berisikan tetntang berbagai posisi pengetahuan, riset dan praktek psikologi yang bergerak di dalam kultur posmodern.
Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? Empiricist philosophers accept a 'commonsense' view of the phenomena we observe and yet conclude that all we can ever know are 'ideas'. Physical reality may not exist at all! The experimental breakthroughs of Kepler, Galileo and Newton - a radical new outlook in 17th-century science - informed…
In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what way is the self engendered from textual practices that transgress—or hover around and therefore within—the threshold of phenomenologial disco…
The purpose of this book is to report and interpret a group of research studies relating to social-cognitive development in early childhood through adolescence. Adults interpret the covert psychological properties of other people, their abilities, knowledge, motives, attitudes, perceptions, and intentions relevant to concrete situations. An infant is unable to do this; therefore, both dispositi…
Bisakah kita hidup tanpa agama? Dapatkah kita beretika tanpa Tuhan? Atau, adakah sesuatu yang disebut “spiritualitas ateis”? Dalam buku ini, filsuf terkemuka Prancis André Comte-Sponville menjawab pertanyaan itu dengan melakukan eksplorasi filosofis perihal ateisme. Menurut Comte-Sponville, kita bisa saja memisahkan konsep spiritualitas dari agama dan Tuhan, dan pandangan ini tentu tida…
James Van Praagh is a spiritual medium--someone who is able to bridge the physical and spiritual worlds. Unaware of his spiritual gifts until he was in his twenties, he slowly came to terms with his unique abilities. In addition, many of his sessions with grieving people who came to him looking to contact the spirits of deceased loved ones are explored. From a devastated mother recieving a mess…
With over a quarter of a million copies sold, Seven Theories of Human Nature has established itself as the classic introduction to Western intellectual theory. Ranging from Plato's Republic to Edward O. Wilson's On Human Nature, and drawing on philosophy, psychology, sociology, politics, biology, and theology, this admirably lucid volume compresses into a small space the essence of such thinker…