Philosophy of mind

Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science.

This book provides a framework that encompasses both physics and cognitive science - integrating them into a 'theory of everything' to establish a basis for both our scientific and humanistic endeavours.

'Is life worth living?

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.

Epistemic Reasoning and the Mental integrates the epistemology of reasoning and philosophy of mind.

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.

The notion of what someone says is, perhaps surprisingly, some- what less clear than we might be entitled to expect.

This book is an enquiry into the meaning and nature of collective responsibility.

Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others.

Few areas have witnessed the type of growth we have seen in the affective sciences in the past decades.

This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness.

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece.

This unique and insightful book brings together a collection of impactful essays written by former psychology doctoral students, which feature hermeneutics as a method of qualitative inquiry.

'Seeing' happens effortlessly and yet is endlessly complex.

This book presents fresh perspectives on the context and significance of Austin''s philosophies of language, truth, perception, and knowledge.

Originally published in 1951, Homo Faber is an examination of the scientific outlook on human mental evolution through the lens of parapsychology.

This is a Classic Edition of David Cohen's unique collection of interviews with eminent psychologists, first published in 1977.

This edited volume of new essays explores the principles that govern moral responsibility and legal liability for omissive conduct--behavior that did not occur.

Although Sir Karl Popper's contributions to a number of diverse areas of philosophy are widely appreciated, serious criticism of his work has tended to focus on his philosophy of the natural sciences.

The emotions pose many philosophical questions.

Our ability to think, argue and reason is determined by our ability to question.

From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial or temporal parts of organisms, bundles of perceptions, or what have you.

This book engages with the later arguments of this major philosopher to examine his significant impact on our understanding of language.

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Causal powers are ubiquitous.

This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence.

This book is not written for posterity.

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens.

Harry Smit examines the elements of current evolutionary theory and how they bear on the evolution of the human mind.

This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.

Mental Health and Hindu Psychology (1952) presents an analysis of the inseparable duality of psychology and religion in Hinduism.

In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption.

In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse.

This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that 'Man was created in the image of God', transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that 'Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures', further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment's notion of human perfectibility.

This volumes collects new essays by top philosophers, all on the theme of perception while also making connections between perception and other philosophical areas like epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of action.

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

People in Germany have an indifferent to poor relationship with our society.

The first book of its kind to provide a detailed analysis of the history of the unconscious from the underworlds of Greek and Egyptian mythology to psychoanalysis and metaphysics, Jon Mills presents here a unique study of differing philosophies of the unconscious.

This text illuminates the relevance and importance of Heidegger's thought today.

This book argues that narrative practice does not have a coherent formulation of personhood in the way one finds in other fields, such as psychoanalysis and cognitive-behavioural therapy.

This volume critiques the increasingly reductive, objectifying, and technologized orientation in mainstream biomedicine.

Evaluation is ubiquitous.

Engendering Emotions examines the production and promotion of the idea of sex/gender difference in emotional experience and expression in the contemporary West.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

This book explores the complex ways in which belonging, identity and time are entangled in shaping young people engagement with the middle years of school.

'Insight' is not a very popular word in psychology or biology.

Originally published in 1916.