Philosophy of mind

With a focus on phenomenological methods, this new edition of Shaun Gallagher's highly regarded textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to phenomenology considered as a philosophical and interdisciplinary practice.

Hilary Putnam is one of the world's leading philosophers.

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering.

This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett.

The personal identity literature is fragmented.

On Folk Epistemology explores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves and others.

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

This volume contains new papers addressing a number of new and traditional issues pertaining to the roles of representations in visual perception.

This volume addresses the complex interplay between the conditions of an agent's personal autonomy and the constitution of her self in light of two influential background assumptions: a libertarian thesis according to which it is essential for personal autonomy to be able to choose freely how one's self is shaped, on the one hand, and a line of thought following especially the seminal work of Harry Frankfurt according to which personal autonomy necessarily rests on an already sufficiently shaped self, on the other hand.

The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world.

This book brings together philosophical approaches to cooperation and collective agency with research into human-machine interaction and cooperation from engineering, robotics, computer science and AI.

An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be analyzed computationally.

Joseph Levine draws together a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive approach to philosophy of mind.

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist.

The goal of inquiry is to acquire knowledge of truths about the world.

Il transumanismo è un movimento filosofico e culturale internazionale che vuole che l'uomo prenda in mano la propria evoluzione biologica tramite l'uso della tecnologia.

The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections and future courses of the field.

How do we understand memory in the early novel?

Eugene Marshall presents an original, systematic account of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, in which the mind is presented as an affective mechanism, one that, when rational, behaves as a spiritual automaton.

First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental Phenomenologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe.

Powerful observations from the Book of Proverbs about life and money can inform your financial choices even today.

Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems in philosophy.

Searching for better ways to inspire people to pursue wisdom, Frederick D.

Quantum physics, in contrast to classical physics, allows non-locality and indeterminism in nature.

This cutting-edge, yet accessible book provides a complete and integrated assessment of the role of emotions in a wide variety of cognitive functions.

This book addresses the issue of cognitive semantics' aspects that cannot be represented by traditional digital and logical means.

This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman-one sometimes modeled on their own mother-forms the romantic core of their greatest narratives.

"e;Understanding Psychoanalysis"e; presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought.

Many have been attracted to the idea that for something to be good there just have to be reasons to favour it.

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

In Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology, Mattia Riccardi offers a systematic account of Nietzsche's thought on the human mind.

Phenomenology: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the important philosophical movements of the twentieth century and to a subject that continues to grow and diversify.

This book is an argument for moving beyond culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity as the necessary foundation of an authentic self.

Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative.

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.

In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying horse, Pegasus.

Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology demonstrates the potential of using cognitive archaeology framing to explore key issues in contemporary psychology and other behavioral sciences.

'A wit and wisdom that harkens back to an age of enlightenment' RON PERLMAN, ACTOR'A meditation guide from a man with a mind most unlikely to be conducive to meditation' MANCH N MAGAN, WRITER AND BROADCASTER'In this beautifully written story, Robert Sheehan shares his journey from chaos to stillness and how meditation can lead us to a place of connection and calm' DEB DANA, AUTHOR OF ANCHORED From Robert Sheehan, star of Misfits and The Umbrella Academy, and host of hit podcast The Earth Locker, comes a heartfelt journey to inner peace.

Theory of Mind (ToM) is the term used for our ability to predict and explain the behaviour of ourselves and others.

Ingmar Persson offers an original view of the processes of human action: deliberating on the basis of reasons for and against actions, making a decision about what to do, and from there implementing the decision in action in a way that makes the action intentional.

This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research.

Berkeley's critique of abstract ideas in the Introduction to Principles of Human Knowledge has provoked a great deal of commentary of various sorts.

Contemporary China, in an era of globalization and in the midst of transition, now faces both great opportunities and unprecedented challenges.

This volume is composed chiefly of papers first presented and discussed at the Research Symposium on Feminist Phenomenology held November 18-19, 1994 in Delray Beach, Florida.

Originally published in 1916.