Philosophy of mind

In recent years there have been a number of books-both anthologies and monographs-that have focused on the Liar Paradox and, more generally, on the semantic paradoxes, either offering proposed treatments to those paradoxes or critically evaluating ones that occupy logical space.

Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray famously insisted on their philosophical differences, and this mutual insistence has largely guided the reception of their thought.

What are the landmarks of the cognitive revolution?

Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience.

Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience.

Andy Clark is a leading philosopher of cognitive science, whose work has had an extraordinary impact throughout philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and robotics.

Andy Clark is a leading philosopher of cognitive science, whose work has had an extraordinary impact throughout philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and robotics.

What is it about art that can be so captivating?

What is it about art that can be so captivating?

Jennifer Radden here provides a re-interpretation of the classic text by 17th century scholar Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy.

The idea that our memories, in some sense, make us who we are, is a common one-and not at all implausible.

Most of the research on the epistemology of perception has focused on visual perception.

Most of the research on the epistemology of perception has focused on visual perception.

In giving to charity, should we strive to do the greatest good or promote a lesser good that we care more about?

In giving to charity, should we strive to do the greatest good or promote a lesser good that we care more about?

Heroes are often admired for their ability to act without having "e;one thought too many,"e; as Bernard Williams put it.

Heroes are often admired for their ability to act without having "e;one thought too many,"e; as Bernard Williams put it.

The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry.

This collection features 26 new essays on character from first-rate scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law.

The Limits of Free Will presents influential articles by Paul Russell concerning free will and moral responsibility.

The Limits of Free Will presents influential articles by Paul Russell concerning free will and moral responsibility.

This volume collects four published articles by the late Tamara Horowitz and two unpublished papers on decision theory: "e;Making Rational Decisions When Preferences Cycle"e; and the monograph-length "e;The Backtracking Fallacy.

In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of norms.

This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective.

This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective.

Imagine you are sitting at Starbuck glancing at the blue coffee mug in front of you.

How do our emotions enable us to know?

What are the landmarks of the cognitive revolution?

James Van Cleve here shows why Thomas Reid (1710-96) deserves a place alongside the other canonical figures of modern philosophy.

In recent decades, memory has become one of the major concepts and a dominant topic in philosophy, sociology, politics, history, science, cultural studies, literary theory, and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust.

This volume collects the best and most influential essays that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language.

This volume is aimed at readers who wish to move beyond debates about the existence of free will and the efficacy of consciousness and closer to appreciating how free will and consciousness might operate.

The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental disorders.

Knowledge how to do things is a pervasive and central element of everyday life.

Some psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the processes that constitute them.

Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers.

We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them.

A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "e;kind"e; has a certain property.

Emotions, Values, and the Law brings together ten of John Deigh's essays written over the past fifteen years.

The senses, or sensory modalities, constitute the different ways we have of perceiving the world, such as seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling.

Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world.

Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought.

Philosophers typically suppose that the contents of our beliefs and other cognitive attitudes are propositions-things that might be true or false, and their truth values do not vary from time to time, place to place, or person to person.

Decartes' maxim Cogito, Ergo Sum (from his Meditations) is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression ever coined.

This is the third volume of a three-volume set on The Innate Mind.

Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics.

Although we no longer live in the relative simplicity of the Jurassic age, and even though we are not aware of them, primitive mammalian brain that developed in that era still live on inside our skulls and remain crucial to our daily functions.

Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world.

What do we see?