Philosophy of mind

This book provides a significant contribution to scholarship on the psychology of science and the psychology of technology by showcasing a range of theory and research distinguished as psychological studies of science and technology.

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition.

This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the "e;second person"e; in human interaction, the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding.

Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent.

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.

This book examines the phenomenon of silence in relation to human behaviour from multiple perspectives, drawing on psychological and cultural-philosophical ideas to create new, surprising connections between silence, quiet and rest.

Alfonsina Scarinzi untersucht die Funktion von Themen als Grundbausteine fiktionaler Literatur.

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in neuroscientific research, and an expansion beyond basic research to incorporate elements of the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture.

Reasoning Practically deals with a classical philosophical topic, the link between thought and action--how we think about what we do or ought to do, and how we move from thinking to doing.

This book was written with the purpose of proclaiming the duty of each individual to search for truth and the meaning of existence.

This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions.

The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice.

This book explores a range of psychosocial resources, and discusses them in relation to lived experiences and outcomes in educational and socioeconomic domains.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

When graduate students start their studies, they usually have sound knowledge of some areas of philosophy, but the overall map of their knowledge is often patchy and disjointed.

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

Commonsense Consequentialism is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two.

This book explores the long-term outcomes of severe and ongoing trauma-particularly complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)-from phenomenological and cognitive perspectives.

The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology on the issue of nosology.

Fresh translations of key texts, exhaustive coverage from Plato to Kant, and detailed commentary by expert scholars of philosophy add up to make this sourcebook the first and most comprehensive account of the history of the philosophy of mind.

The book grapples with one of the most difficult questions confronting the contemporary world: the problem of the other, which includes ethical, political, and metaphysical aspects.

Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks.

Morris N.

This book, first published in 1989, presents sixteen articles on Kant and Berkeley, examining their attitude to the physical world.

This book draws connections between recent advances in analytic philosophy of mind and insights from the rich phenomenological tradition concerning the nature of thinking.

How does the idea that perception must provide reasons for our empirical judgements constrain our conception of our perceptual experiences?

The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers.

Is sex identity a feature of one's mind or body, and is it a relational or intrinsic property?

This insightful book offers contemporary psychologists and other social theorists an understanding of the comprehensive system of thought developed by the German scholar William Stern (1871-1938) known as critical personalism.

Herbert Simon's renowned theory of bounded rationality is principally interested in cognitive constraints and environmental factors and influences which prevent people from thinking or behaving according to formal rationality.

Bill Brewer presents, motivates, and defends a bold new solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of perception.

This second edition discusses advances in Chomsky''s science of language, his view of the human mind and its study, and his socioeconomic-political contributions.

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

In Hegel's Idea of the Good Life, Joshua D.

It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties.

This book investigates how bodily information contributes to categorization processes for at least some conceptual classes and thus to the individual mastery of meanings for at least some word classes.

This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective.

Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which such items are being used), and assesses recent answers to the fundamental questions of how and where to draw the divide between the two.

This volume illustrates the relevance of phenomenology to a range of contemporary concerns.

This is the second volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness.

This Brief brings together empirical accounts that contribute to the investigation of the cultural phenomena of deep personal experiences.

This book critiques conventional parapsychological viewpoints about extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK), collectively referred to as 'psi'.

This book provides an overview and discussion of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (CPSD) as a general developmental science.

"e;Azoth - Or The Star in the East"e; is a 1893 work by A.

This book, first published in 1935, is an examination of Hume's theories of causal inference and belief in substance and his analysis of the understanding.

No words in English are shorter than "e;I"e; and few, if any, play a more fundamental role in language and thought.