Philosophy of mind

Michael S.

This collection brings together a set of new papers that advance the debate concerning the nature of explanation in mind and brain science, and help to clarify the prospects for bonafide integration across these fields.

Mark Textor presents a critical study of the work of Franz Brentano, one of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth century.

Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger's philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian metapsychology.

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content.

Richard Cross provides the first complete and detailed account of Duns Scotus's theory of cognition, tracing the processes involved in cognition from sensation, through intuition and abstraction, to conceptual thought.

Judgments of personal identity stand at the heart of our daily transactions.

John M.

2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right.

2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right.

We know about our immediate environment--about the people, animals, and things around us--by having sensory perceptions.

John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis.

The Objects of Thought addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist.

A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience.

Impassioned Belief presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments.

How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states?

How can an abstract sequence of sounds so intensely express emotional states?

Philosophy (especially philosophy of language and philosophy of mind), science (especially linguistics and cognitive science), and common sense all sometimes make reference to propositions--understood as the things we believe and say, and the things which are (primarily) true or false.

Certain representations are bound in a special way to our sensory capacities.

It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects that we think or talk about.

One of the hardest problems in the history of Western philosophy has been to explain whether and how experience can provide knowledge (or even justification for belief) about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind.

Stefano Predelli presents an original account of the relationships between the central semantic notions of meaning and truth.

What mediates between sensory input and motor output?

Many of the current debates about validity in psychiatry and psychology are predicated on the unexpected failure to validate commonly used diagnostic categories.

Many of the current debates about validity in psychiatry and psychology are predicated on the unexpected failure to validate commonly used diagnostic categories.

Christopher Peacocke presents a philosophical theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation of such a subject of consciousness.

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

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

The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race.

The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race.

This book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from different language families, including Amharic, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Newari (Sino-Tibetan), Polish, Tariana (Arawak), and Thai.

The emotions we experience are crucial to who we are, to what we think, and to what we do.

The emotions we experience are crucial to who we are, to what we think, and to what we do.

Self-knowledge - a person's knowledge of their own thoughts, character, and psychological states - has long been a central focus of philosophical enquiry.

Evaluation is ubiquitous.

Evaluation is ubiquitous.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

It is natural to distinguish, for any thinking creature, those events and states that are internal to the creature -- its brain states, for example -- from those that are not.

Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them.

Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways.

What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)?

What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)?

This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language and mind, and a scholar of the history of analytical philosophy.

This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language and mind, and a scholar of the history of analytical philosophy.

Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language--verbs such as 'believes', 'fears', 'seeks', 'imagines'.