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Sometimes the outcome of a lawsuit depends upon sensations known only to the person who experiences them, such as the buzzing sound heard by a plaintiff who suffers from tinnitus after an accident. Lawyers, litigants, and expert witnesses are now seeking to re-create these sensations in the courtroom, using digital technologies to simulate litigants' subjective experiences and thus to help jurors know-not merely know about-what it is like to be inside a litigant's mind. But with this novel type of evidence comes a host of questions: Can anyone really know what it is like to have another person's sensory experiences? Why should courts allow jurors to see or hear these simulations? And how might this evidence alter the ways in which judges and jurors do justice? In Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom, Neal Feigenson turns the courtroom into a forum for exploring the profound philosophical, psychological, and legal ramifications of our efforts to know what other people's conscious experiences are truly like. Drawing on disciplines ranging from cognitive psychology to psychophysics to media studies, Feigenson harnesses real examples of digitally simulated subjective perceptions to explain how the epistemological value of this evidence is affected by who creates it, how it is made, and how it is presented. Through his close scrutiny of the different kinds of simulations and the different knowledge claims they make, Feigenson is able to suggest best practices for how we might responsibly incorporate such evidence into the courtroom.

Evidence (Law) --- Judicial process. --- Examination of witnesses. --- courts. --- digital technology. --- epistemology. --- evidence. --- jurors. --- sensory experience. --- simulation. --- trials.

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Written by one of the pioneers in visual perception, Seeing provides an overview of the basics of sight, from the anatomy of the eye, to optical illusions, to the way neural systems process visual signs. To help readers better appreciate the most-used of our five senses, Tom Cornsweet describes the early physical and physiological processes that occur in human vision in relation to the forces of evolution. He also includes answers to common questions about vision-including those that many of us ask during a visit to an eye doctor-to illustrate how the study of vision can provide a better understanding of one's everyday relationship with sight.

Visual perception. --- absorption spectrum. --- amount of light. --- anatomy. --- angle. --- bleaching. --- cognition. --- evolution. --- eye. --- five senses. --- healthcare. --- human vision. --- medical. --- medicine. --- neural systems. --- neurobiology. --- neuropsychology. --- neuroscience. --- nonfiction. --- ophthalmology. --- optical illusions. --- optometrist. --- photography. --- psychology. --- science. --- seeing. --- sensory experience. --- sight. --- vision. --- visual perception. --- visual signs.

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Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in a world that impinges and infringes on us, but also regularly suffuses us with beauty and joy and wonder. You don’t write that book as a linear progression—you write it as a living, breathing, richly associative, and, crucially, active, investigation. Or at least you do if you’re as smart and inventive as Mary Cappello. What is a mood? How do we think about and understand and describe moods and their endless shadings? What do they do to and for us, and how can we actively generate or alter them? These are all questions Cappello takes up as she explores mood in all its manifestations: we travel with her from the childhood tables of “arts and crafts” to mood rooms and reading rooms, forgotten natural history museums and 3-D View-Master fairytale tableaux; from the shifting palette of clouds and weather to the music that defines us and the voices that carry us. The result is a book as brilliantly unclassifiable as mood itself, blue and green and bright and beautiful, funny and sympathetic, as powerfully investigative as it is richly contemplative. “I’m one of those people who mistrusts a really good mood,” Cappello writes early on. If that made you nod in recognition, well, maybe you’re one of Mary Cappello’s people; you owe it to yourself to crack Life Breaks In and see for sure.

Mood (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Emotions --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- english literature, creative writing, mood, attitude, self knowing, living life, manifestations, natural history museums, emotions, feelings, understanding yourself, social commentary, kinship, humanity, sound, vibes, frame of mind, humor, temperament, personality, exploratory, associative, self-aware, sensory experience, meditation.

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In this book, Ernest Sosa explains the nature of knowledge through an approach originated by him years ago, known as virtue epistemology. Here he provides the first comprehensive account of his views on epistemic normativity as a form of performance normativity on two levels. On a first level is found the normativity of the apt performance, whose success manifests the performer's competence. On a higher level is found the normativity of the meta-apt performance, which manifests not necessarily first-order skill or competence but rather the reflective good judgment required for proper risk assessment. Sosa develops this bi-level account in multiple ways, by applying it to issues much disputed in recent epistemology: epistemic agency, how knowledge is normatively related to action, the knowledge norm of assertion, and the Meno problem as to how knowledge exceeds merely true belief. A full chapter is devoted to how experience should be understood if it is to figure in the epistemic competence that must be manifest in the truth of any belief apt enough to constitute knowledge. Another takes up the epistemology of testimony from the performance-theoretic perspective. Two other chapters are dedicated to comparisons with ostensibly rival views, such as classical internalist foundationalism, a knowledge-first view, and attributor contextualism. The book concludes with a defense of the epistemic circularity inherent in meta-aptness and thereby in the full aptness of knowing full well.

Virtue epistemology. --- Epistemic virtue --- Epistemology, Virtue --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Virtue epistemology --- AAA normativity. --- AAA structure. --- Meno problem. --- Meno. --- Plato. --- Platonic problems. --- Theaetus. --- apprehension. --- assertion. --- awareness. --- belief. --- bootstrapping. --- circularity. --- contextualism. --- contextualist fallacy. --- epistemic agency. --- epistemic circularity. --- epistemic faculties. --- epistemic normativity. --- epistemic performances. --- epistemology. --- experience. --- experiential states. --- human knowledge. --- ignorance. --- interlocutors. --- knowledge first. --- knowledge. --- meta-aptness. --- normativity. --- perceptual knowledge. --- performance aims. --- performance based. --- performance normativity. --- proper action. --- propositional experience. --- radical knowledge. --- relevant alternatives. --- sensa. --- sense data. --- sensory experience. --- skeptic. --- testimonial knowledge. --- testimonies. --- testimony. --- threshold setting. --- traditional knowledge. --- true belief. --- trust. --- virtue epistemology. --- Ethics --- Philosophy

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"This book introduces a practice based and contextually sensitive approach to studying lived religion, employing cases from diverse disciplines, locations, and traditions and providing accessible guides to students and novice researchers eager to begin their own exploration of religious and spiritual practices"--

Religion and sociology. --- Religion --- Philosophy. --- Abolition movement. --- Action research. --- Aesthetics. --- Alfred Schutz. --- Archaeology. --- Arlie Hochschild. --- Beauty. --- Beliefs. --- Black churches. --- Buildings. --- Clothing. --- Cognitive science. --- Communication. --- Content analysis. --- Conversion. --- Culture. --- Cyberspace. --- Disability. --- Emotion. --- Established religion. --- Ethics. --- Everyday religion. --- Food. --- Gender. --- Global health. --- Golden Rule. --- Habitus. --- Healing. --- Hinduism. --- Icons. --- Institutionalized religion. --- Interviewing. --- Lived Theology. --- Mapping. --- Methods. --- Michel Foucault. --- Michele Lamont. --- Morality. --- Movement. --- Music. --- Muslim fashion. --- Narrative. --- Nature. --- Neoliberal contexts. --- Non-ordinary reality. --- Participant observation. --- Pentecostals. --- Pierre Bourdieu. --- Place. --- Postcolonialism. --- Qualitative analysis. --- Racism. --- Rapture stories. --- Reflexivity. --- Religious objects. --- Religious regulation. --- Ritual. --- Sampling. --- Seekers. --- Sensory experience. --- Sexuality. --- Shrines. --- Social activism. --- Socialization. --- Space. --- Taste. --- Theology. --- Tomb sweeping (Qingming). --- Transcendence. --- Twitter. --- Values. --- Vatican II. --- Vicarious religion. --- Virtues. --- Visual methods. --- definitions of religion. --- embodiment. --- lived religion. --- materiality. --- organized religion. --- practical knowledge. --- religious context. --- research methods. --- social practice theory. --- spirituality.