Philosophy of mind

Desire is a term often used in conjunction with the subject.

This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea.

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection.

Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content.

Wittgenstein's later writings generate a great deal of controversy and debate, as do the implications of his ideas for such topics as consciousness, knowledge, language and the arts.

This volume brings together twelve previously unpublished essays on the theme of Wittgenstein on practice and on the insight that careful attention to human or animal activity is essential for thinking about philosophical problems.

This book is an inquiry into particular matters concerning the nature, normativity, and aftermath of evil action.

The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The "e;suspects"e; of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the "e;senses"e; of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, Midgely, and other critical voices.

This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language.

This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E.

Focusing on the topics of self-awareness, temporality, and alterity, this anthology contains contributions by prominent phenomenologists from Germany, Belgium, France, Japan, USA, Canada and Denmark, all addressing questions very much in the center of current phenomenological debate.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is widely regarded as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century.

As the crowd stood and applauded for the neurophysiologist Du Bois-Reymond's lecture on August 14, 1872, they did not know that his lecture on the seven riddles of the universe would be long remembered.

Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self.

Marxism, Psychology and Social Science Analysis applies Marxist theory, psychology, and the work of Lucien Seve to specific research in the social sciences.

The current volume of the Parmenides Series "e;On Thinking"e; addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of "e;the present,"e; from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy.

Da das Gehirn naturkausal determiniert ist, ist der Mensch in seinen Handlungen nicht frei.

This important new volume addresses an underappreciated dimension of Jung's work, his concept of the teleology, or "e;future-orientation"e;, of psychic reality.

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric.

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science?

This third volume in a series devoted to luminaries in the history of psychology--features chapter authors who are themselves highly visible and eminent scholars.

This book demonstrates how a radical version of physicalism ('No-Self Physicalism') can offer an internally coherent and comprehensive philosophical worldview.

In the course of the eighteenth century, understanding human cognitive life came to be construed as something to be explored in terms of the physiology of the sensory organs, the nerves, and the brain: a form of naturalization that effectively moved cognition out of the realm of philosophy as it had traditionally been understood.

Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition brings together contributions discussing issues arising from theoretical and empirical research on social ontology and social cognition.

John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life.

This book probes the sources and nature of the 'discontents of modernity'.

One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind.

Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century.

Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body, and environment.

First published in 1931, this book provides a brief overview of the essentials of philosophy.

This book unites research in philosophy and cognitive science with cultural history to re-examine memory in early modern religious practices.

There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe.

Kirk Ludwig develops a novel reductive account of plural discourse about collective action and shared intention.

This book, the second of two-volumes, builds on the Unification of Artificial Intelligence and Psychology: Volume One - Foundations to explore its consequences.

Focusing on teaching and learning in educational institutions, Transforming Professional Practice in Education explores the value of enhancing dialogue to improve both professional relationships and practices.

Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre.

How do minds cause events in the world?

This is the first extended study comparing the philosophies of mind promoted by Sigmund Freud and William James, whose opposing views had profound influences on the development of twentieth-century philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology.

This book begins with a survey of various readings of Locke as a materialist, as a substance dualist, and as a property dualist, and demonstrates that these inconsistent interpretations result from a general failure of modern commentators to notice the significance of Locke's 'mind-body nominalism'.

In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of 14 major essays that draw from more than 25 years of painstaking research, M.

An alarming number of philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that mind extends beyond the brain and body.

This book collects nine seminal essays by Mark Richard published between 1980 and 2014, alongside four new essays and an introduction that puts the essays in context.

Many philosophy majors are shocked by the gap between the relative ease of lower-level philosophy courses and the difficulty of upper-division courses.