Philosophy of mind

A short account of the philosophy of knowledge for students reading philosophy for the first time.

This accessible textbook hinges on the central assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Grammar, introducing students to the analytical tools they need to approach Stylistics, an essential area in language analysis.

Phenomenology is about subjective aspects of the mind, such as the conscious states associated with vision and touch, and the conscious states associated with emotions and moods, such as feelings of elation or sadness.

This book provides a significant contribution to scholarship on the psychology of science and the psychology of technology by showcasing a range of theory and research distinguished as psychological studies of science and technology.

Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words?

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

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance.

Memory occupies a fundamental place in philosophy, playing a central role not only in the history of philosophy but also in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics.

"e;When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher's photographs, you might think you're looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines.

This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for psychologists, offering it as a helpful middle ground between positivism and postmodernism.

Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists.

As children, we learn life is unfair: bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people.

The book is the first detailed and full exegesis of the role of death in Heidegger's philosophy and provides a decisive answer to the question of being.

This book explores the textures of women's narratives of patriarchal oppression of female sexuality.

Philosophers have long debated whether morality is objective.

Der Unternehmer, Coach und Autor Wolfram Berghüser nimmt Dich mit auf eine faszinierende Reise zu einigen seiner bewegendsten Lebensstationen und taucht mit Dir ein in die Erkenntnisse über die tiefgreifendsten Fragen + Antworten des Lebens, die er in 41 Jahren seines Unternehmertums sammeln und als Coach bereits vielen Menschen vermitteln durfte:Warum sind wir eigentlich aus dem Paradies gefallen - und wie gelingt uns die "Rolle-Rückwärts" dahin zurück?

The COVID-19 pandemic, whose consequences will be felt in the long term, can be interpreted as a signal that we have been living in a pandemic age.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Enlightening, thought-provoking and illuminating.

Empathy has for a long time, at least since the eighteenth century, been seen as centrally important in relation to our capacity to gain a grasp of the content of other people's minds, and predict and explain what they will think, feel, and do; and in relation to our capacity to respond to others ethically.

Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning investigates the metaphysical position of dual-aspect monism, with particular emphasis on the concept of meaning as a fundamental feature of the fabric of reality.

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations.

Emmanuel Kant has the distinction of having introduced a great revolution into philosophy and yet stood the test of time.

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues.

This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a wide spectrum of contributors committed to testing the validity of this dichotomy, exploring alternatives, and assessing their implications.

In its attempt to come to grips with the nature of the human mind idealism employs such terms as "e;pure self,"e; "e;transcendental apperception,"e; "e;pure con- sciousness"e; and so on.

Transition to sustainability is stuck and academic research has not resulted in significant change so far.

This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of "e;Enlightenment rationalism.

This book is an investigation into cultural variations in experiences of depression.

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

This book is a philosophical examination of the stages in our journey from hominid to human.

This book explores humanising practice within higher education (HE).

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content.

This book turns our search for intimacy on its head, suggesting that our way to creativity in love may be through idiocy.

Cognitive Evolution provides an in-depth exploration of the natural history of cognition, from the beginning of life on Earth to present-day humans.

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

Experimental philosophy is one of the most active and exciting areas in philosophy today.

Traversing philosophy and the human sciences, literature, cinema, and the visual arts, this book maps out a history where all is chaos, maelstrom, and fog.

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E.

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.

Part of the successful county folklore series - this book is packed full of superstitions, customs and old wives tales.

People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions.

This anthology translates eighteen papers by Italian philosopher and experimental psychologist Paolo Bozzi (1930-2003), bringing his distinctive and influential ideas to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

What is a self?

This scholarly book explores the intersection of social cognition with a democratic philosophy of human resource management to advance a theory of workplace function that maximizes creativity.

This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology, in both systematic and historical dimensions.

The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative,multidisciplinary investigation.

This transformative account of early modern intellectual life culminates with new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton.