Philosophy of mind

This volume brings Bergson's key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy.

Chaque jour, des millions de femmes partout dans le monde sont confrontées propos de Felicity Huffman aux mêmes problèmes physiques et émotionnels: baisse de libido, gain de poids, insatisfaction sexuelle, stress chronique, anxiété, déséquilibres hormonaux, infertilité, troubles du sommeil, manque de concentration, SPM, complications liées à la périménopause et à la ménopause et, surtout, une fatigue inexplicable qui domine tout.

Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation.

How can we reconcile Shakespeare's account of human behavior and that of modern brain science?

This book has two parts.

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich's philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2) his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and (3) his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Humanity and his judgments on terrorism.

Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom.

Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality.

Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon-and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noe explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.

The notion of singular (or de re) thought has become central in philosophy of mind and language, yet there is still little consensus concerning the best way to think about the nature of singular thought.

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of film in the context of the Anthropocene: the new geological era in which human beings have collectively become a force of nature.

In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological.

The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments.

This book analyzes Western and Chinese philosophical texts to determine why laughter and the comic have not been a major part of philosophical discourse.

Exemplarity and Chosenness is a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and particular?

Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume and Kant.

This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past twenty-five years.

Concepts stand at the centre of human cognition.

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G.

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the representation of traumatic experience.

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R.

(1) Beliefs are involuntary, and not nonnally subject to direct voluntary control.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes in moral philosophy and philosophy of action.

Beyond Civility in Social Conflict develops a moral approach to persuasive communication that compellingly brings together effectiveness, integrity, and nonviolence.

Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results.

This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation.

The aim of this book is to foster a more explicit and direct discussion of the concept of sacrifice and its importance in moral philosophy.

This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that 'Man was created in the image of God', transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that 'Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures', further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment's notion of human perfectibility.

This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction.

Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts.

Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems.

A classic guide to expanding perception and consciousness development*; Explores six ancient yet timeless systems for exploring the mind: the I Ching, Tantra, Tarot, astrology, alchemy, and the yoga philosophy of Actualism *; Shares exercises from each system and illuminates the key stages in the journey of consciousness development *; Shows how each of these disciplines can help you become a fully aware and conscious participant in your own spiritual evolution In this highly acclaimed classic, psychedelic elder Ralph Metzner presents a guide to six ancient systems, once known only to the initiated few, to expand awareness and free your consciousness from exterior limitations and cultural conditioning.

Holger Seitz untersucht Wachheit als eigenständiges Phänomen, als eine Eigenschaft des Bewusstseins.

For centuries, philosophers have been puzzled by the fact that people often respect moral obligations as a matter of principle, setting aside considerations of self-interest.

Psychological terms are widely used to describe the biological world: plants, insects, bacteria colonies, even single cells are described as making decisions, anticipating rewards, and communicating with language.

How was the standard model of the mind developed?

Kim Sterelny here builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved Apprentice (2012).

This Handbook explores the complex relations between two great schools of continental philosophy: German idealism and existentialism.

What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music?

Personal Agency consists of two parts.

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle.

This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that's been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play.

This book represents an outstanding contribution to the field of somatic psychology.

The book is intended as a reader-friendly introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind, including mental-physical causal interaction, computational models of thought, the relation minds bear to brains, and assorted -isms: behaviorism, dualism, eliminativism, emergentism, functionalism, materialism, neutral monism, and panpsychism.

Is the mind like a theatrical performance?

How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question-and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingThough typically translated as "e;Jewish law,"e; the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law.

Most philosophers have taken the importance of Kant's Critique of Judgement to lie primarily in its contributions to aesthetics and to the philosophy of biology.