Philosophy of mind

The book is an introduction to the philosophy of mind.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's work on the language capabilities of the bonobo Kanzi has intrigued the world because of its far-reaching implications for understanding the evolution of the human language.

Leisure activities account for much of our time - and money.

Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields.

Martin Heidegger is one of the most important as well as one of the most difficult thinkers of the last century.

Engendering Emotions examines the production and promotion of the idea of sex/gender difference in emotional experience and expression in the contemporary West.

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.

Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, ethnic and religious identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some general principles concerning the links between language and identity.

What is the true worth of Wittgenstein's contribution to philosophy?

Organised around a single question: is love possible?

The role and place of transcendental psychology in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has been a source of some contention.

Despite the familiarity of hope in human experience, it is a phenomenon infrequently considered from a philosophical point of view.

This book charts and challenges the bruising impact of post-Saussurean thought on the categories of experience and self-presence.

The blush is a ubiquitous, but little understood, phenomenon.

The Psychology of Blindness and Visual Culture: Towards a New Ecological Model of Visual Impairment advances the debate regarding the inclusion and wellbeing of people with visual impairment (PVI) through looking at the psychological nature of visual culture and its effects on the lived experience.

If man has no nature - if our intellect and understanding are products of our own activities - do we possess a key to self-modification?

A short account of the philosophy of knowledge for students reading philosophy for the first time.

Existentialism was one of the most important influences on twentieth-century thought, especially in the period between the 1920s and early 1960s.

Laplace (1849-1827) was the famous French astronomer and mathematician who outspokenly proposed that every occurrence is in every respect determined by laws of nature - that all that exists is determinate.

Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Perceptive, passionate and often controversial, Raymond Tallis's latest debunking of Kulturkritik delves into a host of ethical and philosophical issues central to contemporary thought, raising questions we cannot afford to ignore.

This book expounds values which the author styles 'patrician'.

This reconstruction of the work of 'dialectical memory' in Hegel raises the fundamental question of the principle that presides on the articulation of history and indicates in Hegel's philosophy two alternative models of conceiving history: one that grounds history on 'ethical memory,' the other that sees justice as the moving principle of history.

Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain.

Otto Bohlmann's fascinating study offers detailed and exhaustive evidence that the major philosophical aspects of Conrad's novels exhibit a powerful existential strain, foreshadowing many central concerns of twentieth-century modernism.

This book seeks to set humanism on a new footing.

Going beyond the hype of recent fMRI 'findings', thisinterdisciplinary collection examines such questions as: Do women and men have significantly different brains?

A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world.

Presenting cutting-edge science in a playful manner, this exploration of a topic that has been veiled by taboo, the psychology of excretion, surveys an assortment of embarrassing processes, shameful disorders and disgusting habits taking the reader on a tour of the history and literature of elimination.

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error.

An examination of the philosophical issues surrounding prudential value: what it is for something to be good for a person; and well-being: what it is for someone's life to go well.

This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis.

Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account.

Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behaviour of primates, the design of artificial autonomous systems and the cognitive products of language evolution.

An exploration of the philosophical foundation of modern medicine which explains why such a medicine possesses the characteristics it does and where precisely its strengths as well as its weaknesses lie.

A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human?

Why do people enter total institutions - places that confine and control them around the clock - and how does the experience change them?

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline.

This book addresses the contemporary disillusion with truth, manifest in sceptical relativism.

A collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of action and agency.

The author presents a new philosophical theory according to which we need intuitions and emotions in order to have objective moral knowledge, which is called affectual intuitionism.

This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness.

Beginning with the view that human consciousness is essentially embodied and that the way we consciously experience the world is structured by our bodily dynamics and surroundings, the book argues that emotions are a fundamental manifestation of our embodiment, and play a crucial role in self-consciousness, moral evaluation, and social cognition.

Following Nietzsche's call for a philosopher-physician and his own use of the bodily language of health and illness as tools to diagnose the ailments of the body politic, this book offers a reconstruction of the concept of political physiology in Nietzsche's thought, bridging gaps between Anglo-American, German and French schools of interpretation.

This book challenges the view of the relationship between Kant's and Sartre's practical philosophies arguing that Kant was one of Sartre's most significant predecessors.

An assessment of some ethical implications of increasing life spans.

The first book to highlight the most pressing sociology-of-language themes of our times.

This book unites research in philosophy and cognitive science with cultural history to re-examine memory in early modern religious practices.

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

This book is a philosophical examination of the stages in our journey from hominid to human.