"Thought and Doing" reveals the biases and limitations of current science-based understandings of human life and proposes a philosophically grounded alternative to them. It also provides philosophical justification for the positive role of thought in our conduct and develops methods by which investigations of human thought can be conducted.

As ubiquitous and influential as gossip is, it has been surprisingly downplayed as a topic of philosophical, psychological, and sociological investigation and debate.

In Good Gossip, twenty-two scholars from several disciplines turn a professional eye to that much-maligned yet heavily practiced form of conversation. Going beyond merely trying to explain a previously ignored human behavior, many of them argue that gossip has unexpected virtues. They show how it contributes to community cohesion and helps individuals better understand their own predicaments, problems, and personal...