An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.
Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences.
An argument that the uniquely human capacities of pretending and imagining develop in response to sociocultural and sociopolitical pressures in childhood.
Theoretical and empirical accounts of the interconnectedness between the manual and the mental suggest that the hand can be understood as a cognitive instrument.
A proposal that human social cognition would not have evolved without mechanisms and practices that shape minds in ways that make them easier to interpret.
An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don''t so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations.
Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others.
In neuer Übersetzung ins Deutsche: Eine Abhandlung über die menschliche Natur ist das Buch des schottischen Philosophen David Hume, das von vielen als Humes wichtigstes Werk und eines der einflussreichsten Werke in der Geschichte der Philosophie angesehen wird.
Dazzlingly original but deeply engaged with the philosophical currents of her time, Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was one of the most ingenious and exciting philosophers of the seventeenth century.
This thought-provoking book adopts a pluralistic framework to examine leadership and raises important questions about how leadership studies scholars see and do their work.
This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions, including schizophrenia.
** The North Pole: The History of an Obsession by Erling Kagge is out now **'Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us' Alain de Botton____________________________Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Helps you keep achieving - and find peace and happiness in the process' Amy Edmondson, author of Right Kind of Wrong We are living an earned life when the choices, risks and effort we make align with an overarching purpose in our lives.
Our sense-making capabilities and the relationship between our individual and collective intelligence and the comprehensibility of the world is both remarkable and deeply mysterious.
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From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition.
A scholar of both spirituality and science proposes a radical approach to studying the mind with the goal of restoring human nature-and transcending it.
Using Symbolic Interactionist theories and descriptions of the everyday life of self-defined 'shy' people, the book explores the social processes of becoming a 'shy person' and performing the shy self in public places.
This book offers arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology, a view which Ratcliffe suggests is a theoretically motivated abstraction.
This book highlights the oft neglected moral aspect of "e;the self,"e; examining the variety of neurological, psychological, and social processes that enter into the development and maintenance of moral orientations.
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.
Drawing on the non-individualistic perspective of social representations theory, this book presents an alternative view of social identity by articulating the inseparable dynamic relationships that exist between content, process and power relations when social identity is embedded in social knowledge.
Looking at a variety of countries, this book explores the influence of cultural dimensions on the interrelations between personal and social identity, and the impact of identity salience on attitudes, stereotypes, and the structures of consciousness.
An examination of surgical breast reconstruction which establishes a strong link between, on the one hand, the personal feelings and actions of women with breast cancer, and on the other, powerful discourses and practices of the breast cancer movement.
That knowledge about the world and self is imparted through narrative is widely accepted; the techniques used to construct this knowledge have received less attention.
