Philosophy of mind

In Reading the Dream the poet and scholar Peter Dale Scott has composed a poem in prose for our time.

The conscious mind defines human existence.

In recent decades, issues that reside at the center of philosophical and psychological inquiry have been absorbed into a scientific framework variously identified as "e;brain science,"e; "e;cognitive science,"e; and "e;cognitive neuroscience.

In seventeenth-century philosophy the mind-body problem and the nature of personal immortality were two of the most controversial and sensitive issues.

This book investigates dispositions in grammatical-normative terms through a contrast between a naturalized paradigm and a Wittgenstein-inspired perspective.

Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them.

In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons.

Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world.

This book explores the engagement between the philosophical concept of 'plasticity' and the radically changing space of educational thinking.

Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality.

An argument that moral psychology can benefit from closer integration with the social sciences, offering a novel ethical theory bridging the two.

Søren Kierkegaard gilt als der Begründer des Existentialismus und als Vordenker einer Philosophie, die den Menschen in seiner tiefsten persönlichen Auseinandersetzung mit Freiheit, Glaube und Verzweiflung betrachtet.

This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith''s thought.

Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural, and mixed approaches.

This book is an inquiry into particular matters concerning the nature, normativity, and aftermath of evil action.

Bringing together neuroscientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars in cross-disciplinary exploration of the topic of cultural memory, this collection moves from seminal discussions of the latest findings in neuroscience to variegated, specific case studies of social practices and artistic expressions.

Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience.

In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B.

This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric.

O''Shaughnessy investigates bodily action in a new edition of this classic work of analytical philosophy.

This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre.

Games are a unique art form.

Thomas Szasz wrote over thirty books and several hundred articles, replete with mordant criticism of psychiatry, in both scientific and popular periodicals.

There have been many voices in disciplines as various as philosophy, history, psychology, hermeneutics, literary theory, and theology that have claimed that narrative is fundamental to all that is human.

In this book, Hackett introduces the traditional usage of the mapping sentence within quantitative research, reviews its philosophical underpinnings, and proposes the "e;declarative mapping sentence"e; as an instrument and approach to qualitative scholarship.

The diverse essays in this volume speak to the relevance of phenomenological and psychological questioning regarding perceptions of the human.

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This monograph presents the results of over 10 years of paleontological and geological survey in the Baynunah Formation of the United Arab Emirates.

The modern West has made the focus on individuality, individual freedom, and self-identity central to its self-definition, and these concepts have been crucially shaped by Christianity.

Since the millennium, the neurophysiological and psychological bases of moral judgements and actions have been the topic of much empirical research.

This book is a novel and original collection of essays on Italians and food.

Since the 1980s, MRI scanners have told us much about brain function and played an important role in the clinical diagnosis of a number of conditions - both in the brain and the rest of the body.

What is given to us in conscious experience?

Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in different areas of science (principally physics, neuroscience and social psychology).

Empathy-our capacity to cognitively or affectively connect with other people's thoughts and feelings-is a concept whose definition and meaning varies widely within philosophy and other disciplines.

Gray Matters is a thorough examination of the main topics in recent philosophy of mind.

This volume explores the phenomenology of broken habits and their affective, social, and involuntary dimensions.

This book has been a long time in the making.

This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.

Social interaction is an important aspect of everyday life and its success (or lack of) impacts heavily on our wellbeing.

Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year.

Simple seeing.

This book examines the benefits of applying the Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) to teacher professional development.

Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society.

This book investigates how bodily information contributes to categorization processes for at least some conceptual classes and thus to the individual mastery of meanings for at least some word classes.

This book explores a range of psychosocial resources, and discusses them in relation to lived experiences and outcomes in educational and socioeconomic domains.

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