Philosophy of mind

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.

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This volume is a critical edition of the 1587 treatise by Oliva Sabuco, New Philosophy of Human Nature, written during the Spanish Inquisition.

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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.

We have spent decades optimising our waking hours, but what about the precious hours after we doze off (or try to)?

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.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists.

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.

Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down.

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.

Does the self - a unified, separate, persisting thinker/owner/agent - exist?

This is the first major response to the challenge of neuroscience to religion.

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.

In recent years historians of psychoanalysis have come to view Freud's case of Anna O.

The idea of education as therapy goes back to ancient times.

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.

Psychiatry is increasingly dominated by the reductionist claim that mental illness is caused by neurobiological abnormalities.

Raymond Tallis's The Explicit Animal (1991) was a passionate attack on attempts to explain human consciousness in purely biological terms.

Drawing on a particular emphasis within the phenomenological tradition as exemplified by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Eugene Gendlin, this book considers the role of the lived body as a way of knowing and being within three practical contexts that illustrate some of the nuances of embodied enquiry: qualitative research, psychotherapy, spirituality.

Irony, humour and the comic play vital yet under-appreciated roles in Kierkegaard's thought.

This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity.

This book explores the concept of epistemic justification and our understanding of the problem of skepticism.

This book is about the development of psychoanalysis and modern subjectivity in Japan, and addresses three key questions: 'Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?

This book examines the lives and repartnering behaviour of former spouses and co-habitees, groups pivotal to recent marital change.

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

This book argues that thinking is bounded by neither the brain nor the skin of an organism.

This book brings together two of the most influential thinkers in critical theory.

The neurosciences propose that the concept of will is scientifically untenable - it is our brain rather than our 'self' that controls our choices.

This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy.

Shows that Husserl's Phenomenology and its key concept, subjectivity, is based on a concrete anthropological structure, such as self-affection and the bodily experience of the other.

This unique collection of articles on emotion by Wittgensteinian philosophers provides a fresh perspective on the questions framing the current philosophical and scientific debates about emotions and offers significant insights into the role of emotions for understanding interpersonal relations and the relation between emotion and ethics.

The author offers a new assessment of the influence of the Vienna Circle on language study, and considers its relevance to the debate in present-day linguistics about the relative merits of 'intuitive' and 'real life' sources of data.

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.

How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication?