Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind

by Robert N. McCauley, George Graham

2020 · Oxford University Press

Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind examines the long-recognized and striking similarities between features of mental disorders and features of religions. Robert McCauley and George Graham emphasize underlying cognitive continuities between familiar features of religiosity, of mental disorders, and of everyday thinking and action. They contend that much religious thought and behavior can be explained in terms of the cultural activation of humans' natural cognitive systems, which address matters that are essential to human survival: hazard precautions, agency detection, language processing, and theory of mind. Those systems produce responses to cultural stimuli that may mimic features of cognition and conduct associated with mental disorders, but are sometimes coded as "religious" depending on the context. Their approach promises to shed light on both mental abnormalities and religiosity.

Category Theory 1991: Proceedings of the 1991 Summer Category Theory Meeting, Montreal, Canada

by Robert Andrew George Seely

1992 · American Mathematical Soc.

Twenty-seven papers address applications of category theory in new domains as well as in its traditional contexts. Among the topics: a Stone duality for metric spaces; sheaves in cocomplete categories; completeness in continuity spaces; dualities for accessible categories; some problems in descriptive locale theory; modeling homotopy coherence; and functorial selection of morphisms. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR