Facts and Feelings

Feelings and emotions are part of our lives. Emotions are basically energy. Instinctive reactions that can’t be avoided, but their impact can be managed. Feelings, on the other ha...

Abstract There is a deeply entrenched assumption that reality has the structure of a single stack of facts, and that a total view of the facts is either a view fr...

For over twenty years, James W. Cortada has pioneered research into how information shapes society. In this book he tells the story of how information evolved since the mid-ninetee...

This chapter locates ballroom dance's transformative potential in the affective experience of synchronized performance, with particular emphasis on how it brings pleasure and feeli...

“It’s a gut feeling.” Indeed, how and why do we get “gut feelings?” After the brain, the gut is the second most innervated bodily organ, diffusely interconnected with gastrointesti...

Between 1780 and 1920, modern conceptions of emotion—conceptions still very much present in the 21st century—first took shape. This book traces that history, charting the changing ...

This chapter discusses some central themes in a dispute between J. L. Austin and P. F. Strawson over the nature of truth. The dispute is of contemporary interest in part because it...

(i) What is the law on such-and-such? (ii) What is the most fundamental law of a particular legal system? (iii) In virtue of what is a certain rule the most fundamental law of a pa...