Philosophy of mind

This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

This fascinating book explores the concept of slow living, offering a philosophical and psychological exploration of the need for a slower pace of life.

Originally published in 1973.

There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe.

John Kulvicki offers an account of the many ways in which pictures can be meaningful which is inspired by the philosophy of language.

A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism.

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

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories of concepts, and the inputs of the budding neuropsychology of concepts.

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

Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind presents cutting-edge work in the philosophy of mind, combining invited articles and articles selected from submissions.

In this book William G.

A man with schizophrenia believes that God is instructing him through the public address system in a bus station.

This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course.

Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010.

Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech.

This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term 'femminicidio', or 'femicide', entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election.

Henry E.

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy.

How can we explain the structure of perceptual experience?

The Philosophy of Psychiatry is a unique area of research because the nature of the subject matter leads to quite distinct methodological issues.

This volume contains Russell's reviews of and introductions to other philosophical works including his famous introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life.

Despite recent advances in Locke scholarship, philosophers and political theorists have paid little attention to the relations among his three greatest works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de Tolerantia.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it.

It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched.

The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure.

This Element explains love with technologies in ways that go beyond traditional approaches to technologically mediated bodies and emotions.

Chaque jour, des millions de femmes partout dans le monde sont confrontées propos de Felicity Huffman aux mêmes problèmes physiques et émotionnels: baisse de libido, gain de poids, insatisfaction sexuelle, stress chronique, anxiété, déséquilibres hormonaux, infertilité, troubles du sommeil, manque de concentration, SPM, complications liées à la périménopause et à la ménopause et, surtout, une fatigue inexplicable qui domine tout.

The Concept of Holiness (1961) examines one of the most distinctively religious concepts in the sphere of Hebrew and Christian belief.

This book investigates the ubuntu theory-based conception of virtue and moral character formation in the northern, western, and eastern regions of Africa, suggesting a critical reconstruction of ubuntu by conceptualising the four different forms of practices in moral character formation.

Jonathan L.

There are few more unsettling philosophical questions than this: What happens in attempts to reduce some properties to some other more fundamental properties?

Evidence and Agency is concerned with the question of how, as agents, we should take evidence into account when thinking about our future actions.

Nach seinem dialogischen Kommentar zu Hegels »Phänomenologie des Geistes« rekonstruiert Pirmin Stekeler jetzt die »Wissenschaft der Logik« als Überbietung von Kants »Kritik der reinen Vernunft«.

This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy.

What does it mean to be human?

This volume pulls together interdisciplinary research on cognitive representations in the mind and in the world.

Focuses on potential threats to human free will from two divine attributes: God''s foreknowledge and God''s providential control of creation.

This volume is concerned with the philosophical foundations of Psychical Research.

This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language.

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about.