Philosophy of mind

Keith Donnellan is one of the major figures in 20th century philosophy of language and mind, a key member of the highly influential group that altered the course of philosophy of language and mind around 1970.

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics.

Artificial Psychology (AP) is a highly multidisciplinary field of study in psychology.

Human beings are in contact with the world through their minds.

The topic of this book is mental representation, a theoretical concept that lies at the core of cognitive science.

Leibniz's theory of knowledge, unlike his logic and metaphysics, has until now received little attention from philosophers.

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and machine consciousness.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide.

Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency.

The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes conceptions of human well-being.

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R.

Recent work at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of psychology has dealt mostly with Aristotelian virtue ethics.

While the philosophical study of mind has always required philosophers to attend to the scientific developments of their day, from the twentieth century onwards it has been especially influenced and informed by psychology, neuroscience, and computer science.

Mindmatics invites readers into a captivating exploration where the boundaries between mind and mathematics dissolve.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

In this text, first published in 1993, Barrow decisively rejects the traditional assumption that intelligence has no educational significance and contends instead that intelligence is developed by the enlargement of understanding.

A cutting-edge and groundbreaking set of new essays by top philosophers on key topics related to the ever-influential knowledge argument.

This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation.

From new questions concerning qualia, representation, embodiment and cognition to fresh thinking about the long-standing problems of physicalism, dualism, personal identity and mental causation, this book is an authoritative guide to the latest research in the Philosophy of Mind.

Wayne Wu's Attention was the first book to provide a systematic overview and assessment of different empirical and philosophical works on attention.

In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is the scope and unique power of rational thinking?

Focusing on teaching and learning in educational institutions, Transforming Professional Practice in Education explores the value of enhancing dialogue to improve both professional relationships and practices.

Originally published in 1961.

Provides a thematically integrated analysis and discussion of neuroethical questions about memory capacity, content, and interventions.

Martin Smith explores a question central to philosophy-namely, what does it take for a belief to be justified or rational?

This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks.

Wonach verlangt der Mensch?

This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior.

Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy.

THE SEEMING CONTINGENCY OF THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE BODY AND THE NECESSITY FOR AN ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BODY When we disclose and bring forth, within ontological investigations aimed at making possible the elaboration of a phenomenology of the ego, a prob- lematic concerning the body, we may well seem, with respect to the general direction of our analysis, to elaborate only a contingent and accidental specification of such an analysis and to forget its true goal.

Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing.

This volume presents the first major study of C.

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty's unwritten ethics.

In On the Genealogy of Color, Zed Adams argues for a historicized approach to conceptual analysis, by exploring the relevance of the history of color science for contemporary philosophical debates about color realism.

Philosophy of mind is one of the most dynamic fields in philosophy, and one that invites debate around several key questions.

Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions.

This book examines how young people in Europe construct their political identities.

'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.

Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws?

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.

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.

First published in 1995.

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use?

Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us-a view still dominant in philosophy now.

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought.

This reconstruction of the work of 'dialectical memory' in Hegel raises the fundamental question of the principle that presides on the articulation of history and indicates in Hegel's philosophy two alternative models of conceiving history: one that grounds history on 'ethical memory,' the other that sees justice as the moving principle of history.