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The frontiersmen of mankind
the liberation of their continent made the second half of
the twentieth century a triumphant period for the peoples of Africa, but at
the end of the ... region of the world on behalf of the entire human race. That has been
their chief contribution to history. It is why they deserve admiration, support,
and careful...
... meaning thereby just that they feel,
see, think, reason and so forth. According to this view of the
matter, the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of
minded things just insofar as they ... con-
cerning the ‘content’ of intentional states of mind, such as
the question of whether content can be assigned to mental
states independently of the wider physical...
... food stocks, and the mood of the garrison. The tactics
of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper
dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... but catch the interest of
the British public very decisively. The press followed the events of the
war in such detail that Haggard decided by the end o...
... dualist view. The sciences of the mind have
delivered another, or rather a series of others. The cognitive sciences –
the umbrella term for the disciplines devoted to the study of mental
phenomena ... different kind of thing? Recall the
attractions of the mind-stuff theory, for Cartesians. First, the theory
was supposed to explain how the essence of the self,...
... in the West.
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Building on
these eVorts, cultural historians moved to assess the importance of the
First World War in molding the distinctive contours of the modern.
Robert Wohl’s study of the ... forever.
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Yet these illuminating examinations of the psychology of the front-
experience and its ramiWcations focused almost exclusively on only one
half of the war,...