Se explica qué es el trastorno límite de la personalidad y se aclaran algunos conceptos erróneos comúnmente conocidos al respecto.

El principio básico de la teoría del apego es que los apegos emocionales de una persona influyen en las formas en que el individuo trata las situaciones problemáticas. Y la forma en que uno maneja situaciones problemáticas influye en las relaciones de la persona con los demás. Este libro explica qué es la teoría del apego y cómo las enfermedades mentales en adultos, incluidos los problemas de relación, pueden explicarse en términos de la misma.

Papers on accounting, business, economics, finance, and related topics.

Religion is shown to be distinct from both rationalism and spiritualism but to combine elements of both. It is further shown that modern rationaiism, much like an unregulated economy, collapses into its own antithesis, it being one of the purposes of religion to prevent this collapse.

Determinism is the doctrine that the world's condition at any given time is a consequence of its condition at some prior time. The world is predictable only to the extent that it is deterministic, but even a strictly deterministic world cannot possibly be entirely predictable. The reasons for this are stated in this fast-paced, tightly argued monograph, as are the reasons why, contrary to what is generally assumed, it can in fact be established with reasonable certainty that the world is a...

It is said what aggregative properties are and also what emergent properties are, and examples are given each of kind of property. It is also explained why, even though all emergent properties are aggregative properties, not all aggregative properties are emergent properties. It is further made clear that, strictly speaking, emergence is a property of one's knowledge of a given kind of aggregate, and not of such aggregates themselves, this being why a property that is emergent at one time ...

Five classic works of modern analytic philosophy.What is an intention?Kant's EthicsPhilosophical KnowledgeA Priori KnowledgeAnalytic Truth vs. Formal Truth

In this book, Kant's ethical system is clearly stated and carefully critiqued. In the process, cogent answers are given to the following questions: *What is the relationship between self-interest and morality? *What is the relationship between morality and rationality? *What is the nature of rationality? *What is the difference between rationality and intelligence?*What is the relationship between awareness of moral norms and awareness of logical norms? A must-read for anyone interested in...

Crisp, easy-to-understand lectures on logic.Table of contents:30 Principles of LogicMathematical LogicTrilingual Logic101 Principles of LogicDifferent kinds of Mathematical Functions: A DialogueFucntions, Bijections and Mapping-relationsLogic and Formal TruthRelations and Ordinal NumbersNine Kinds of NumberCausalityAnalyticityIs Mind an Emergent Property?Is Time-travel Possible?What i...

Philosophy papers on a wide range of topics. Definitive answers are given to age-old questions, always with a deep knowledge of the relevant literature.Partial table of contents:Three Short Philosophy Papers on Human FreedomThe Paradox of Religions InstitutionsDifferent Perspectives on Religious Belief:O'Reilly v. Dawkins. v. James v. CliffordSchopenhauer on SuicideSchopenhauer's Fractal Conception of RealityTheodore Roszak's ...

In this fictitious dialogue, it is shown that there are three kinds of freedom, each of which, though non-trivially different from the other two, is identical with the subject's being appropriately constitutive of a causally cohesive structure of some kind or other. Analogues of this point are proven to hold not just of personal freedom, but also of personal identity, and not just of personal identity, but also of objectual identity.

Discussions of psychopathy, psychopathology, bureaucracy, etc.