Philosophy of mind

Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individually.

This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior.

Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture.

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How do minds cause events in the world?

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides an authoritative guide to it.

El autor, en continuidad con su Antropología para inconformes, describe ahora la intimidad humana y su apertura a Dios: la libertad personal y la esperanza, el conocer personal y la fe, el amor personal y la caridad, así como la belleza íntima como reunión de estas realidades.

What is free will?

In Naturalness, Dieter Birnbacher delves into an argument common in everyday thinking and ethics-the argument of naturalness.

This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to debates in contemporary philosophy.

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.

Both through his own work and that of his students, Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917) had an often underappreciated influence on the course of twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy.

Whereas for the wider public Jan Patocka is known mainly as a defender of human rights and one of the first spokespersons of Charter 77, who died in Prague several days after long interrogations by secret police of the Communist regime, the international philosophical community sees in him an important and inspiring thinker, who in an original way elaborated the great impulses of European thought - mainly Husserl's phenomenology and Heidegger's philosophy of existence.

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 volume focuses on philosophical problems concerning sense perception in the history of philosophy.

Beatrice Longuenesse presents an original exploration of our understanding of ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves.

In this book Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of Kant's theories of mind, action, and ethics.

Seit Jahrzehnten drängt die Bewegung der Philosophischen Praxis auf die praktische Anwendung der meist lebensfernen akademischen Philosophie.

Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany showcases the vibrant and diverse contributions on the part of women in eighteenth-century Germany and explores their under-appreciated influence upon philosophical debate in Germany in this period.

In this incisive analysis of academic psychology, Gregg Henriques examines the fragmented nature of the discipline and explains why the field has had enormous difficulty specifying its subject matter and how this has limited its ability to advance our knowledge of the human condition.

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought.

Why believe?

First published in 1972, The Hope of Progress presents collection of essays and lectures dealing with the history of scientific ideas and the impact of science on society.

This book presents a radical and intuitive argument against the notion that intentional action, agency and autonomy are features belonging only to humans.

Emotions mediate between the past, the present and the future, allowing ghosts to transcend the boundaries believed to divide times.

Hilary Putnam is one of the world's leading philosophers.

Minds and Bodies is a clear introduction to the mind-body problem.

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This book explores the quality of life among Badagas, an ethnic minority group in South India, as they navigate a society in flux, with specific reference to rural-to-urban migration and new media.

First published in 1972, Problems of Mind begins with a consideration of the view that the human mind is an immaterial thing that does not require corporeal embodiment for its operations.

Cognitive science has reached a peak in the past few decades.

The subtitle of this book should be read as a qualification as much as an elaboration of the title.

In Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory a group of distinguished contributors examine how perceptual imagination and memory resemble and differ from each other and from other kinds of sensory experience.

This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users.

According to the cognitive penetrability hypothesis, our beliefs, desires, and possibly our emotions literally affect how we see the world.

Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science.

Developments in the philosophy of mind over the last 20 years have dramatically changed the nature of the subject.

This book concerns the nature and character of conscious thinking from a philosophical perspective.

The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation.

This pragmatist interpretation of habits provides a unifying concept for 4E cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and social theory.

Michael Slote argues that emotion is involved in all human thought and action on conceptual grounds, rather than merely being causally connected with other aspects of the mind.

Realism in Action is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science.

This book examines the ways in which a writer's presentation of self can achieve or impede access to power.

Allgemein Naturphilosophie; Schwerpunkt menschliche Kognition und Willensfreiheit; Existentialismus,Determinismus, Phänomenologie und Soziologie; spezielle Vergleiche und Deutungen zwischen ontologischen Konzepten, kausalen Begriffen und Shunyata (Leere).

The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the issue of nosology.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks.

Addressing objective and subjective views of the self and the world in philosophy and poetry, this collection brings together a chronology of John Koethe's thoughts on the connections between the two forms and makes a significant contribution to unsettling the oppositions that separate them.