Philosophy of mind

This is a collection of the most important writings of Oxford philosopher H.

In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevant information.

This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suarez's comprehensive theory of sense perception.

Uniting analytic philosophy with Buddhist, Indian, and Chinese traditions, this collection marks the first systematic cross-cultural examination of one of philosophy of mind's most fascinating questions: can consciousness be conceived as metaphysically fundamental?

Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought.

This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human.

This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective.

Counterfactual thinking has become an established method to evaluate decisions in a range of disciplines, including history, psychology and literature.

Social philosophy oscillates between two opposing ideas: that individuals fashion society, and that society fashions individuals.

Introduces the reader to Whitehead's complex and often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions about the nature of causation originally raised by the philosophy of Leibniz.

Esta obra es una guía práctica para aplicar los conceptos de la Visión Integral desarrollada por Ken Wilber en la vida cotidiana.

Emotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives.

In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality.

A new view of the extended mind thesis argues that a stark binary opposition between really extending and seeming to extend oversimplifies the issue.

This book brings together for the first time a synthesis of philosophical and psychological material to examine the basis for the professional identity that teachers might believe in, and the effects of misunderstanding and mistreating these beliefs.

What if philosophy could solve the psychological puzzle of trauma?

This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music.

Can we reach the psychotic subject in their delusion?

The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters-written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers-that assess the past, present, and future of pragmatism.

Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love.

This book examines the theoretical developments in the field of Action Research from a historical perspective.

David Hume is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher to have written in the English language.

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.

Are 'persons' physical things, members of the species homo sapiens which exist solely in materialist form, continuous in structure with other living things?

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

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt zentrale naturphilosophische Probleme, die durch Theorien der modernen Naturwissenschaften aufgeworfen werden.

Analogical thinking lies at the core of human cognition, pervading from the most mundane to the most extraordinary forms of creativity.

Drawing on over four decades of professional and academic experience, Susan Long explores how the concept of the unconscious has evolved from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, showing that it is more than an individual phenomenon, but also a group, organisational and institutional phenomena.

This fascinating book explores the concept of slow living, offering a philosophical and psychological exploration of the need for a slower pace of life.

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study.

In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation.

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 book, first published in 1987, is an extended examination of Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy.

This book, first published in 1951, discusses the fundamental concepts which have crystallized around the fatal 'crisis'.

This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience.

This book, first published in 1935, is an examination of Hume's theories of causal inference and belief in substance and his analysis of the understanding.

Il transumanismo è un movimento filosofico e culturale internazionale che vuole che l'uomo prenda in mano la propria evoluzione biologica tramite l'uso della tecnologia.

This study provides new insights into the link between masculinity and jealousy through a study of representations of male jealousy in modern Hollywood cinema.

First published in 1940, Sartre's The Imaginary is a cornerstone of his philosophy.

Professor Brown in this volume discusses one of the most difficult questions in metaphysics, “what is action?

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of the fifth century are cast by historians of philosophy in four important roles: they are reputed to have originated the mathematical disciplines, harmonics, and, in a large measure, astronomy; they are said to have propounded theories of the nature of our universe to which, in differing ways, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus reacted; they are reputed to have made the alliance between religion and philosophy that made philosophy in the ancient world a way of life; and their thought is alleged to have exerted a major influence on Plato, and particularly on the metamathematical theories of his later years.

The nature and reality of self is a subject of increasing prominence among Western philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists.

This book has been a long time in the making.

Drawing on classical antiquity and Western and Eastern philosophy, Richard Sorabji tackles in Self the question of whether there is such a thing as the individual self or only a stream of consciousness.