Philosophy of mind

In works of literary fiction, it is a part of the fiction that the words of the text are being recounted by some work-internal 'voice': the literary narrator.

This book places Freud's theory of the reality principle in relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st century and illustrates how it may be practically applied.

This monumental work presents Schopenhauer''s metaphysics of the will, and wide-ranging philosophical reflections on psychology, desire, sex, death, and salvation.

This book shows us how rather than abandoning psychology once he liberated phenomenology from the psychologism of the philosophy of arithmetic, Edmund Husserl remained concerned with the ways in which phenomenology held important implications for a radical reform of psychology throughout his intellectual career.

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 Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.

This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of 'human being'.

These essays on food and philosophy were written over several decades.

A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers.

Breaking new ground in the debate about the relation of mind and body, David Armstrong's classic text - first published in 1968 - remains the most compelling and comprehensive statement of the view that the mind is material or physical.

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

In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language.

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain explores a fundamental cornerstone of human consciousness; how recognizing ourselves leads to a better understanding of the brain and higher-order thinking.

This book, first published in 1962, is based on a series of lectures first given at Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960, dealing with 'psychical research' - i.

This book grew out of a graduate student paper [261] in which I set down some criticisms of J.

In 1950 Alan Turing (1912-1954) published his famous article, "e;Computing Machinery and Intelligence"e; in the journal Mind.

This book is the first in-depth study of the representation of animals on television.

Through this book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Aner Govrin demonstrates how psychoanalysis' engagement with philosophy was crucial in the evolution of new psychoanalytic theories in three areas: perception of truth, developmental theories, and study of psychoanalytic treatment.

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

Islamic Psychology or ilm an-nafs (science of the soul) is an important introductory textbook drawing on the latest evidence in the sub-disciplines of psychology to provide a balanced and comprehensive view of human nature, behaviour and experience.

First published in 1927, The Nature of Deity forms a sequel to Personality and Reality.

Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation.

The Origins of Consciousness challenges the dominant view that consciousness is an emergent property of the complex human brain.

It is natural to distinguish, for any thinking creature, those events and states that are internal to the creature - its brain states, for example - from those that are not.

Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works.

What does place mean for human beings?

The topic of this book is the relationship between mind and the physical world.

Wittgenstein's later writings generate a great deal of controversy and debate, as do the implications of his ideas for such topics as consciousness, knowledge, language and the arts.

Self-control is a fundamental part of what it is to be a human being.

This volume brings together a collection of essays that explore in a new way how unacknowledged moral concerns are integral to debates in the philosophy of mind.

In this book, Dennis Schulting presents a staunch defence of Kant's radical subjectivism about the possibility of knowledge.

Regardless of the subject matter, our studies are always searching for a sense of the universal in the specific.

Originally published in 1925.

The study of perception and the role of the senses have recently risen to prominence in philosophy and are now a major area of study and research.

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.

Games are a unique art form.

The extraordinary breadth and depth of Leibniz's intellectual vision commands ever increasing attention.

This book develops a novel theory of intentionality.

Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades.

Originally published in 1902, this book is 'A practical scientific explanation of thought or mind force - the law which governs all mental and physical action and phenomena - the cause of life and death'.

Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two administrations.

In Representational Ideas: From Plato to Patricia Churchland Watson argues that all intelligible theories of representation by ideas are based on likeness between representations and objects.

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.

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame.

An original and broad-ranging reassessment of Spinoza''s intellectual legacy.

In this incisive analysis of academic psychology, Gregg Henriques examines the fragmented nature of the discipline and explains why the field has had enormous difficulty specifying its subject matter and how this has limited its ability to advance our knowledge of the human condition.

This collection of new essays examines the brain-in-a-vat scenario and its implications, analyses and impact.

We all take it for granted that we are typically in a position to know about the thoughts and feelings of other people.

Peter Wien presents a provocative discussion on the history of Iraq and the growth of nationalism during the 1930s and early 1940s.

This volume brings together selected papers from the 2021 IAJS conference focusing on Jungian psychology's place within the broader human science field, with contributions providing an interdisciplinary examination of fields such as psychoanalysis, feminism, critical thought, and eco-psychology.