Philosophy of mind

In Philosophy's Role in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Peter Raabe argues that philosophy is an effective method in treating mental illness.

This is a collection of pithy and accessible essays on the nature and implications of human embodiment which explore the concept of 'human being' in the most unprecedented manner through seemingly disparate academic disciplines.

Over the past two decades, the number of studies of creativity has in- creased enormously.

This insightful book proposes a holistic theory of the development of self, drawing on interdisciplinary literature in existential-phenomenology, neurophenomenology, intracrinology, endocrinology, and naturopathic medicine.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

Simulation and Similarity is an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models.

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This book provides new perspectives on endurance sport and how it contributes to a  good and sustainable life in times of climate change, ecological disruption and inconvenient truths.

The past two decades have seen a surge of interest in the topic of consciousness, with the result that the research literature has expanded greatly.

This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide.

This book provides an introduction to nineteen popular multiple intelligences.

Computational approaches dominate contemporary cognitive science, promising a unified, scientific explanation of how the mind works.

Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience.

One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention.

The Element provides philosophers with a naturalized account of emergent mental control, along with descriptions of mind wandering and ADHD.

Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving.

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint products of brain, body, and environment.

Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and bad feelings such as anxiety.

This book, first published in 1929, is an assessment of Voltaire's life and works.

This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of 'human being'.

Volume Two of The History of Psychology through Symbols continues a groundbreaking approach of using symbols to deepen the understanding of psychological history as well as the importance of how one lives, an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises, called emancipatory opportunities, to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life.

Evidence is mounting that we are not as in control of our judgments and behavior as we think we are.

This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception.

This book utilizes Maurice Merleau-Ponty's fascinating philosophy of embodiment to cast further light on the incredibly rich and complex phenomenon of shame.

This book provides an original and provocative account of the nature of perception and its role in the production of knowledge.

Most research on perception has focused on the perceptual experience of three-dimensional, solid, bounded, and coherent material objects - items like tables and tomatoes.

Engaging undergraduate students and instigating debate within philosophy seminars is one of the greatest challenges faced by instructors on a daily basis.

Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems in philosophy.

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models.

For the last 25 years, Kurt Danziger's work has been at the center of developments in history and theory of psychology.

Talbot Brewer presents an invigorating new approach to ethical theory, in the context of human selfhood and agency.

This volume presents new research on Cartesian psychophysiology that combines historical and textual analysis with a consideration of recent advances in contemporary neuroscience research.

Some combinations of attitudes--of beliefs, credences, intentions, preferences, hopes, fears, and so on--do not fit together right: they are incoherent.

This book works to unpack and explicate women's personas.

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

Contemporary social problems typically involve many complex, interrelated dimensions--psychological, cultural, and institutional, among others.

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.

This book offers a unique developmental perspective on identity construction in the context of mobility and transition to adulthood.

The purpose of this book is to use neuroscience discoveries concerning religious experiences, the Self and personhood to deepen, enhance and interrogate the theological and philosophical set of ideas known as Personalism.

This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism.

This study is about what matters in survival--about what relation to a future individual gives you a reason for prudential concern for that individual.

There have been many voices in disciplines as various as philosophy, history, psychology, hermeneutics, literary theory, and theology that have claimed that narrative is fundamental to all that is human.

Analytic philosophy has been a dominant intellectual movement in the 20th century and a reflection of the cultural pre-eminence of scientism.

Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works.

A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience.

Humans think of ourselves as acting according to reasons that we can typically articulate and acknowledge, though we may be reluctant to do so.

This volume offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy.