Philosophy of mind

This groundbreaking book shows how we can build a better understandingof people by merging psychology with the social sciences.

Interdisciplinary survey of the mind-body relation, providing detailed studies of themes and figures and considering both pagan and Christian thought.

All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents.

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

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one's action causing further consequences.

In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond.

To construct a comprehensive theory of information, meaning and intentionality, the book develops a naturalistic perspective based on Peircean biosemiotics.

Francois Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought.

The notion of disinterestedness is often conceived of as antiquated or ideological.

This book focuses on how globalisation influences and affects second language (L2) identity, including both benefits and caveats of globalisation.

In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there's much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells.

The Evident Connexion presents a new reading of Hume's 'bundle theory' of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it.

This book is an investigation into cultural variations in experiences of depression.

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This study, first published in 1984, presents an explanation and critical examination of the theories of Sartre, Heidegger, Husserl and Hegel on the fundamental relationships between persons.

Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research.

This book offers a unique perspective on one of the deepest questions about the world we live in: is reality multi-leveled, or can everything be reduced to some fundamental 'flat' level?

This book is Jon Elster''s influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.

In Mind and Body Robert Kirk offers an introduction to the complex tangle of questions and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem.

Understanding the relationship between human cultural psychology and the evolutionary ecology of living systems is currently limited by abstract perceptions of space and boundaries as sources of definitive discontinuity.

Kant''s philosophy considered under one unifying standpoint: his conception of our capacity to form judgements.

This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective.

While paternalism has been a long-standing philosophical issue, it has recently received renewed attention among scholars and the general public.

This book focuses on the social psychological aspects of gay men's lives and provides a cutting-edge examination of topics including sexual orientation, sexual behavior, identity, relationships, prejudice, and health.

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Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades.

For over thirty years, discursive psychology has offered a robust challenge to cognitivist approaches to psychology, demonstrating the relevance of discursive practices for understanding psychological topics and social interaction.

Kaum ein Vorhaben hat die Hegel'sche Philosophie stärker und mit größerer Selbstverständlichkeit geprägt als eine therapeutische Auflösung starrer begrifflicher Dualismen.

Understanding the Dream Sociogram, the complementary volume to Dream Sociometry, explains how to take sociometric data from dreams and life issues and create a Dream Sociogram, to reveal patterns of intrasocial dynamics that clarify conflicts and reveal pathways to transformation.

Phenomenology and analytic philosophy have skirmished often, but seldom in ways conducive to dialectical progress.

With the rise of analytical philosophy the criticism against Hegelianism has become increasingly shrill, and signs of an embarrassment that Hegel's philosophy should ever have arisen are noticeable in such inftuential works as those of Karl Popper and Hans Reichenbach, to mention but a few.

'Insight' is not a very popular word in psychology or biology.

Dieses Buch bietet eine eingehende Analyse der Logotherapie von Viktor Frankl und taucht in die spirituellen Tiefen einer inhärenten Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens ein.

The first book of its kind to provide a detailed analysis of the history of the unconscious from the underworlds of Greek and Egyptian mythology to psychoanalysis and metaphysics, Jon Mills presents here a unique study of differing philosophies of the unconscious.

This book reviews some of the most important scientific and philosophical theories concerning the nature of mind and consciousness.

According to Arthur Schopenhauer, compassion is the basis of morality.

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science?

This volume comprises three distinct investigations into the relationship between the nature and the value of knowledge.

This volume is product of the third online consciousness conference, held at http://consciousnessonline.

"e;Mental Immunity is the perfect vaccine for the mind-viruses infecting our culture: alternative facts, fake news, and conspiracy thinking, to name a few.

A new approach to Kant''s conception of virtue which grounds it in his innovative account of reflection and cognitive agency.

This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts.

This book presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry that is based on a justified epistemological position, which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding.

A new examination of the psychology of personhood, which views persons as irreducibly embodied and socially situated beings.

This volume brings together contributions that explore the philosophy of Franz Brentano.

In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than has hitherto been appreciated.