Philosophy of mind

Unlike most other discussions of responsibility, which focus on the idea that to be responsible, agents must in some sense act voluntarily, this book focuses on the relatively neglected idea that they must in some sense know what they are doing.

Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue.

This book concentrates on argumentation as it emerges in ordinary discourse, whether the discourse is institutionalized or strictly informal.

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In Minds and Bodies, Colin McGinn offers proof that contemporary philosophy, in the hands of a consummate reviewer, can be the occasion not only sharp critical assessment, but also writing so clear and engaging that readers with no special background in the subject but simply a taste for challenging idea can feel welcome.

A capacity to act for reasons is a key indicator of intelligence.

This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.

Handeln, Personsein, Menschenwürde und zahlreiche Fragen der Angewandten Ethik – das ist das weite Spektrum dieser Festschrift und auch des Denkens von Ralf Stoecker, dem sie gewidmet ist.

Non-cognitive expressions of the life of the subject - feeling, motion, tactility, instinct, automatism, and sentience - have transformed how scholars understand subjectivity, agency and identity.

In 1688 the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke.

Why is debate over the free will problem so intractable?

In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy.

This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective.

Like Pygmalion with his Galatea, we create the characters of people in our lives.

This edition of George Berkeley's Philosophical Commentaries, first published in 1989, provides an accurate transcription of Berkeley's manuscript, and introduction to set it in perspective, extensive notes to aid in interpreting it, and a full index to facilitate the use of it.

In this book, Matej Kohar demonstrates how the new mechanistic account of explanation can be used to support a non-representationalist view of explanations in cognitive neuroscience, and therefore can bring new conceptual tools to the non-representationalist arsenal.

How did the human mind evolve and how does it emerge, again and again, in individual lives?

Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and controversial philosophers of the Twentieth century.

In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and arguments on the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundbreaking 1996 book, The Conscious Mind.

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them.

The title is meant to indicate that consciousness is being examined largely within the history of philosophy, and within the period of time from Descartes to Ayer.

This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures.

Featuring thirteen specially commissioned chapters on core subjects, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Mind is an essential tool for all those studying and working in the field, purpose-built for use on courses in this area of philosophy.

This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing, CollabTech 2022, held in Santiago, Chile during November 8-11, 2022.

This edited collection charts the rise and the fall of the self, from its emergence as an autonomous agent during the Enlightenment, to the modern-day selfie self, whose existence is realised only through continuous external validation.

First published in 1934, and revised and expanded in 1964, this book is the standard work on the political thought of Rousseau.

Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical papers by D.

Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society.

Epistemic cognition, the philosophical core of metacognition, concerns people's knowledge about the justification and truth of beliefs.

This book offers a penetrating analysis of issues raised by the perennial question, 'Are We Special?

THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO SUBSTANCE DUALISM This is a terrific volume by a long way, the best currently available anthology on dualism, and a worthy addition to Blackwell s distinguished series of Companions.

The films of Lars von Trier offer unique opportunities for thinking deeply about how Philosophy and Cinema speak to one another.

This book highlights the lived experiences of gay Muslims in Malaysia, where Islam is the majority and official religion, and in Britain, where Muslims form a religious minority.

This innovative volume investigates the meaning of 'something' in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy.

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

This book is a fascinating collection of various neuroscience terms coined over the last centuries.

Naturalism and the Human Condition is a compelling account of why naturalism, or the 'scientific world-view' cannot provide a full account of who and what we are as human beings.

The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty''s philosophy.

Have you ever called yourself a "e;pragmatist"e;?

This book carries out an epistemological analysis of the decision, including a critical analysis through the continuous reference to an interdisciplinary approach including a synthesis of philosophical approaches, biology and neuroscience.

According to epiphenomenalism, our behavior is caused by events in our brains that also cause our mentality.

Our engagement with time is a ubiquitous feature of our lives.

This Brief introduces two empirically grounded models of situated mental phenomena: contextual social cognition (the collection of psychological processes underlying context-dependent social behavior) and action-language coupling (the integration of ongoing actions with movement-related verbal information).

Be warnedin your journey through this volume you will encounter many true stories.

This book discusses key figures in history in the context of their time, takes students on a carefully-formulated, chronological journey through the build-up of psychology from ancient times to the present, and seeks to draw students into the way science is done, rather than merely presenting them with historical fact.