Philosophy of mind

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This collection of new essays examines the brain-in-a-vat scenario and its implications, analyses and impact.

This innovative book proposes a unique and original perspective on the nature of the mind and how phenomenal consciousness may arise in a physical world.

What is self-control?

Can we reach the psychotic subject in their delusion?

The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy.

The thesis of the present volume is critical and dual.

Annotated translation of a key text in the history of medical and philosophical thinking about the human body.

This book develops and defends a subjectivist account of meaning in life, which holds that the only place that meaning can ever be found is in the way we experience the living of our lives.

In this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is realised by more than just the brain.

The book focuses on the debate about myth as a counter-concept to contemporary scientific thinking.

This book examines taxonomic practices in cognitive science and uncovers crosscutting relationships among categories in psychology and neuroscience.

In Certainty in Action, Dani le Moyal-Sharrock describes how her encounter with Wittgenstein overturned her previous assumptions that the mind is a product of brain activity and that thought, consciousness, the will, feelings, memories, knowledge and language are stored and processed in the brain, by the brain.

This book expounds values which the author styles 'patrician'.

Experience and Possibility concerns the modal ontology of experience.

The primary aim of this study is to dissolve the mind-body problem.

No reasonable person would deny that the sound of a falling pin is less intense than the feeling of a hot poker pressed against the skin, or that the recollection of something seen decades earlier is less vivid than beholding it in the present.

There is growing recognition of the value dimension in psychiatric practice, from the contributions of positive psychology, of documenting the role of virtues in human flourishing and in the medical practice.

This book presents a novel interpretation of major problems of Indian ethics from an applied ethical perspective.

This book gives a sincere yet honest representation of modern nursing in all its forms rather than purely focusing only on the 'good' 'the funny' 'the sad' or the 'ugly'.

This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective.

Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century.

Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought.

This book places Freud's theory of the reality principle in relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st century and illustrates how it may be practically applied.

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

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and the relationships between humans and other animals.

Belief is a fundamental concept within many branches of contemporary philosophy and an important subject in its own right.

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history.

This book explains and justifies efficient general methods of making decisions and will guide practical efforts to streamline rational choice.

Why ought we concern ourselves with understanding a concept of evil?

This book scrutinizes the practice of sailing and its relation to philosophy of mind.

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

This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the economy of attention from the perspective of the basic motive of the pursuit of attention: self-esteem.

Using historical and anthropological perspectives to examine mind-body relationships in western thought, this book interweaves topics that are usually disconnected to tell a big, important story in the histories of medicine, science, philosophy, religion, and political rhetoric.

The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation.

Jordi Fernandez here offers a philosophical investigation of memory, one which engages with memory's philosophically puzzling characteristics in order to clarify what memory is.

This edited volume focuses on the hypothesis that performativity is not a property confined to certain specific human skills, or to certain specific acts of language, nor an accidental enrichment due to creative intelligence.

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The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy.

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Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it, while psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is.

Wie steht es mit den humanistischen Grundlagen unseres Lebens und Zusammenlebens?

Existentialism was one of the most important influences on twentieth-century thought, especially in the period between the 1920s and early 1960s.

This is the first extended study comparing the philosophies of mind promoted by Sigmund Freud and William James, whose opposing views had profound influences on the development of twentieth-century philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology.

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping or sharing knowledge.

Hardly any attempt to come to grips with the classical problem of free will and determinism directly addresses the metaphysical vision driving the concerns of those who believe that a significant sort of free will cannot exist in a deterministic world.

Our species is misnamed.

This book studies the close relationship between Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the unfinished four volume Revaluation of All Values that he worked on until shortly before his collapse.