Philosophy of mind

Now in its fourth edition, this highly popular text is the definitive introduction to consciousness, exploring the key theories and evidence in consciousness studies ranging from neuroscience and psychology to quantum theories and philosophy.

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together.

This book provides an essential, comprehensive discussion on thought experiments and how they have featured throughout the history of the personal identity debate in analytic philosophy.

This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape.

What is the true worth of Wittgenstein's contribution to philosophy?

Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time.

How should thinkers cope with uncertainty?

Mindmatics invites readers into a captivating exploration where the boundaries between mind and mathematics dissolve.

Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach presents a synthesis of viewpoints and data on linguistic, psychological, anatomical and behavioral studies on living species of Primates and provides a comparative framework for the evaluation of paleoanthropological studies.

This book explores how philosophical realisms relate to psychoanalytical conceptions of the Real, and in turn how the Lacanian framework challenges basic philosophical notions of object and reality.

In this book Fabian Klinge develops a novel approach for explaining phenomenal consciousness.

This book offers a unique perspective on the topic of boredom, with chapters written by diverse representatives of various mental health disciplines and philosophical approaches.

Walmsley offers a succinct introduction to major philosophical issues in artificial intelligence for advanced students of philosophy of mind, cognitive science and psychology.

Bewusstsein hat jeder, der denkt oder spricht - aber niemand vermag genau zu sagen, was es ist.

One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind -- and, in particular, of consciousness, meaning, and intentionality -- in a physical universe.

My interest in gathering together a collection of this sort was generated by a fortuitous combination of historical studies under Professor Keith Lehrer and studies in cognitive science under Professor R.

The Escape of the Mind is part of a current movement in psychology and philosophy of mind that calls into question what is perhaps our most basic, most cherished, and universally accepted belief--that our minds are inside of our bodies.

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism.

Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species.

This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness (ASCs) experienced in everyday life.

Draws on insights from several disciplines to answer questions of widespread interest about how to understand and treat psychopaths.

This book addresses the richness and depth of our intimate relationships and especially those moments when we come to see ourselves and the other person in a new way.

In Zeiten, in denen sich die gesellschaftlichen Gräben weiter vertiefen und ein striktes Entweder-oder das Denken beherrscht, ist Hegels Philosophie des Sowohl-als-auch so aktuell wie nie zuvor.

How Creativity Happens In The Brain is about the brain mechanisms of creativity, how a grapefruit-sized heap of meat crackling with electricity manages to be so outrageously creative.

Philosophy has come to seem like a specialist interest with little or no influence on our lives.

Originally published in 1973.

If humans are purely physical, and if it is the brain that does the work formerly assigned to the mind or soul, then how can it fail to be the case that all of our thoughts and actions are determined by the laws of neurobiology?

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What is the self?

Based upon Ajit Maan's groundbreaking theory of Internarrative Identity, this collection focuses upon redefining self, slave narrative, the black Caribbean diaspora, and cyberspace to explore the interconnection between identity and life experience as expressed through personal narrative.

This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect.

Thought, to be thought at all, must be about a world independent of us.

Self-knowledge - a person's knowledge of their own thoughts, character, and psychological states - has long been a central focus of philosophical enquiry.

Künstliche Intelligenz findet in nahezu allen Bereichen unscheinbar Anwendung und erleichtert uns seit Jahren das Leben, ohne dass wir es merken.

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the "e;Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul"e;.

Adopting a friendly but critical approach to the talking therapies, this book places psychotherapy in a social and historical context, exploring its relationship to contemporary culture and recommending a different way of thinking about practice.

This volume shows how the psychology and power of language can create realities.

Dogma's Primrose Path addresses how the perpetual presence of ignorance, poverty, and war throughout the world is accepted by most people as an inevitable consequence of human life given man's incurably evil, greedy, and violent nature.

In Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, Anthony Korner demonstrates how important communication and resonance are to the development of a sense of self.

Stimulating introduction to the most central and interesting issues in the philosophy of mind.

Most of us experience the world through competing perspectives.

This book offers a novel theory of the roles narrative plays in cognition by arguing that we can develop rich interdisciplinary research by thinking of narrative as a form of processing.

This volume contains Russell's reviews of and introductions to other philosophical works including his famous introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

At least since Locke, philosophers and psychologists have usually held that concepts arise out of sensory perceptions, thoughts are built from concepts, and language enables speakers to convey their thoughts to hearers.