| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Summary |
Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. Bridging philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Balance shows how an unheralded concept's many meanings illuminate the human condition |
| Contents |
1. Balancing Bodies and Lives -- 2. Balance and the Brain -- 3. Vertigo, Nausea, and Falls -- 4. Consciousness -- 5. How Metaphors Work -- 6. Nature -- 7. Medicine -- 8. Society -- 9. The Arts -- 10. Philosophy -- Appendix: Balance and Imbalance Metaphors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Equilibrium.
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Motion.
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equilibrium (structural analysis concept) |
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motion. |
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science. |
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Equilibrium |
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Motion |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Thagard, Paul. Balance. New York : Columbia University Press, [2022] 9780231205580 (DLC) 2021046717 (OCoLC)1284982811 |
| ISBN |
9780231556071 (ebook) |
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0231556071 (ebook) |
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9780231205580 (hardcover) |
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