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A collection of essays which tackles various issues at play in the current neuroscientific, psychological and philosophical research on emotions. The authors discuss such topics as the role of amygdala in the emergence of emotions, the place of the affect within the psychological construction of the agent, insights from the research on emotions in animals or the relation between emotions, rationality,...

A collection of essays which tackles the philosophical issues at play in cosmology, physics, mathematics and neuroscience. Considering topics such as the presence of ontological problems in cosmological theories and physics, it also weighs up the philosophical issues connected with mathematical method, the neuroscience of emotions and evolutionary anthropology. Contributions also feature structuralism...

Twórczość plastyczną Tove Jansson ukształtowały szkoły w Helsinkach, Sztokholmie i Paryżu, jednak artystka szybko zdała sobie sprawę, że kreska i farba jej nie wystarczą. W tekstach literackich poruszała nieraz te same tematy, które zajmowały ją również jako malarkę. Największą sławę zapewniły jej książki o Muminkach, ale krytycy i czytelnicy na całym świecie docenili również jej minimalistyczne, poetyckie...

About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. „The New Machiavelli” describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful...