Philosophy of mind

This highly accessible discussion takes up imagination and creativity and explores in some detail the relationship between them.

Perceptual organization comprises a wide range of processes such as perceptual grouping, figure-ground organization, filling-in, completion, perceptual switching, etc.

This book turns our search for intimacy on its head, suggesting that our way to creativity in love may be through idiocy.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive and empirically informed discussion on affordances and their role in studying goal-directed behavior, covering philosophical, experimental psychological, neuroscientific, and applied perspectives.

Barry Stroud presents nineteen of his philosophical essays written since 2001, on topics to do with knowing, seeing, and understanding.

This major new study by one of the most penetrating and persistent critics of philosophical and scientific orthodoxy, returns to Aristotle in order to examine the salient categories in terms of which we think about ourselves and our nature, and the distinctive forms of explanation we invoke to render ourselves intelligible to ourselves.

This volume assembles supporters and critics of situated cognition research to evaluate the intricacies, prerequisites, possibilities, and scope of a 4E methodology.

In a crisp, original style the author approaches the crucial question of moral theory, the `is--ought' problem via communicative argumentation.

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?

First published in 1990, Happiness is based fairly and squarely on scientific evidence and provides realistic insights into the following questions: What is happiness?

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 aims to lay bare the logical foundations of tractable reasoning.

Bring Hygge into your home this year with this beautiful and essential guide to the globally celebrated Danish art of happiness 'At these times it is crucial for me to have hygge.

Goldberg explores the nature of linguistic knowledge communication presenting a novel argument for familiar anti-individualistic views.

How brain science answers the most intriguing questions about the meaning of lifeWhy is life worth living?

The idea of the present study is basically a simple one.

Interoception is the body-to-brain axis of sensations that originates from the internal body and visceral organs.

The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of their significance.

Much of what we take to be meaningful and significant in life is inextricably linked with our capacity to experience emotions.

This is naturalistic theory of when, how and why our utterances are interpreted as speech acts: assertions, orders or promises.

This series includes 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.

This book explores how psychological empowerment can influence and enhance job satisfaction.

In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the "e;more than human"e; in the context of movement, perception, and experience.

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live.

This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas.

Biological cognition is a juggling act, which employs numerous chemical and neural systems to navigate various challenges and opportunities.

Anthony J.

'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful .

This Element provides an overview of the contributions of Susan Stebbing, the UK''s first female professor of Philosophy.

'Jung's Philosophy' explores some of the controversial philosophical ideas that are both explicit and implicit within Jung's psychology, comparing the philosophical assumptions between this and other psychotherapeutic traditions.

Wir wissen, wie es ist, Schmerzen zu haben, jemanden zu lieben oder Angst zu haben.

The Early Modern Subject explores the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity-two fundamental features of human subjectivity-as it developed in early modern philosophy.

This book argues that narrative practice does not have a coherent formulation of personhood in the way one finds in other fields, such as psychoanalysis and cognitive-behavioural therapy.

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

In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition.

In this book, William R.

Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology.

John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life.

This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture.

This book provides a novel philosophical account of the unfairness of certain emotions.

This book works through some of the theoretical issues that have been accumulating in informal logic over the past 20 years.

This monograph presents an interpretation of Descartes's dualism, which differs from the standard reading called 'classical separatist dualism' claiming that the mind can exist without the body.

On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms.

The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value.

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