Philosophy of mind

This book elaborates Jean Amery's critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind's Limits and his other writings.

In recent years numerous attempts have been made by analytic philosophers to naturalize various different domains of philosophical inquiry.

This brief presents the case study of a hill in Czech Republic (Rip) and its region, and contributes to theorization in sociocultural psychology on three points, along three current debates.

This book explores the mysteries of the human brain and the potential of the mind.

Psychoanalysis is often equated with Sigmund Freud, but this comparison ignores the wide range of clinical practices, observational methods, general theories, and cross-pollinations with other disciplines that characterise contemporary psychoanalytic work.

Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and neurotheology are just a few of the novel disciplines that have been inspired by a combination of ancient knowledge together with recent discoveries about how the human brain works.

Logical empiricism is a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 30s in Central Europe and in the 1940s and 50s in the United States.

What sort of mental state is a delusion?

This book aims to explain the self as understood decades ago and its evolution in the time of postmodernism.

This volume offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy.

Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it.

While paternalism has been a long-standing philosophical issue, it has recently received renewed attention among scholars and the general public.

This book argues that a special value of art is the way in which it uses conscious experience -- the exemplars of aesthetic experience -- to autonomously reconfigure how we conceive of our world and ourselves, ourselves in our world and our world in ourselves.

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

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

Mind, Brain, and Free Will presents a powerful new case for substance dualism (the theory that humans consist of two parts body and soul) and for libertarian free will (that humans have some freedom to choose between alternatives, independently of the causes which influence them).

Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'.

A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend.

Until recently, experimental philosophy has been associated with the questionnaire-based study of intuitions.

How does thinking affect doing?

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.

'Microphysicalism', the view that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts, is an influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and scientific heritage.

Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research.

This Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams of philosophy since the nineteenth century.

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

Mindfulness for the High Performance World provides a unique approach to mindfulness training, built upon the principles of Buddhist philosophy written in line with the Dalai Lama's description of meditation and mindfulness as "e;Science of the Mind"e;.

In a major challenge to African philosophy, this book demonstrates the importance of the universalisation question for every committed African philosopher.

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.

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

The nature of representation is a central topic in philosophy.

An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation maintains that current models of moral deliberation do not effectively deal with contemporary moral complexity because they are based on an inadequate theory of moral cognition.

Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time.

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Charles Travis presents a series of connected essays on current topics in philosophy of perception.

The emotions pose many philosophical questions.

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The Life of the Mind presents an original and striking conception of the mind and its place in nature.

The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H.

What is happiness?

This book presents a new structural approach to the psychology of the person, inspired by Kenneth Colby's computer-generated simulation, PARRY.

The question of innateness, or nativism, is one of the most heated problems in philosophy, reaching as far back as Plato but generating fierce debates in contemporary philosophy and cognitive science.

Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems: A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework (LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating the work of the health and human service professions.

This book aims to answer two simple questions: what is it to want and what is it to intend?

What is it to have a concept?

An unusual study of human perceiving from the perspective of an ecological psychology that explicitly incorporates a phenomenology of consciousness.

This book presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry that is based on a justified epistemological position, which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding.

This book, the second of two-volumes, builds on the Unification of Artificial Intelligence and Psychology: Volume One - Foundations to explore its consequences.