Philosophy of mind

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts?

Near-death experiences offer a glimpse not only into the nature of death but also into the meaning of life.

Hatred is often considered the opposite of love, but in many ways is much more complicated.

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it.

Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift?

Hatred is often considered the opposite of love, but in many ways is much more complicated.

The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood.

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it.

In this fascinating and often hilarious work - winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 - pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how - and why - the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy.

Un vicio lógico informal y recurrente es la petitio principii y se da cuando la proposición que hay que probar como verdadera ya está incluida en las premisas de lo que se está intentando argumentar.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways.

En las últimas décadas se han multiplicado los testimonios acerca de las ECM (experiencias cercanas a la muerte), algunos de los cuales se recogen aquí.

Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week?

Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week?

Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century.

Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic.

Hay un refrán ruso que dice que es todavía más difícil predecir el pasado que el futuro.

There is perhaps no modern psychic more fascinating than Edgar Cayce, and no better authors to explore the intricate details and eye-opening stories of the people who received his readings than Sidney and Nancy Kirkpatrick.

Two Edgar Cayce experts with decades of experience studying and teaching the philosophies of his psychic readings bring his timeless wisdom into the 21st century.

When we act in cooperation with "e;the Force"e;-using our whole being to integrate and cooperate with "e;what is trying to happen"e; already-then every aspect of our lives is transformed.

Die Grundlage und der Ausgangspunkt für diese Untersuchung ist eine kurze Textpassage in Immanuel Kants moralphilosophischer Schrift "Die Metaphysik der Sitten".

Mindfulness es la puerta de entrada para celebrar la vida, para andar por el mundo con una sonrisa pintada en la cara y agradecer sin tener por qué.

Wie verhält sich der Geist zur Natur und zum Gehirn?