Wooden eyes: nine reflections on distance
by Ginzburg, Carlo, Soper, Kate, Ryle, Martin H.
""I am a Jew who was born and who grew up in a Catholic country; I never had a religious education; my Jewish identity is in large measure the result of persecution." This brief autobiographical statement is a key to understanding Carlo Ginzburg's interest in the topic of his la…
For generations, classic wisdom literature has taught that a healthy perspective can replenish our thirst for a meaningful and rewarding life. From its inception clinical psychology has followed suit, revealing that how we see ourselves and the world is more important than what …
Draws on classic wisdom, research in cognitive behavioral therapy, and positive psychology and offers advice for overcoming doubt and resistance to openness.
Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives in narrative terms. He draws on work in philosophy, psychology, history, and literature, and argues that having a narrative sense of self is at the heart of what it is to understand ourselves.
Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenome…
When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it from a perspective. We say and think that the meeting is happening now, that it is hot here, that I am in danger and not you; that the tree looks larger from my perspective than from you…
Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenome…