Philosophy of mind

In recent decades, memory has become one of the major concepts and a dominant topic in philosophy, sociology, politics, history, science, cultural studies, literary theory, and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust.

First published in 1985, Principles of Language and Mind presents a systematic and original account of the principles which enable us to understand the origin, primary functions, and later development of human language.

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society.

A cognitive psychologist and an industrial design engineer draw on their own experiences of cognition in the context of everyday life and work to explore how people attempt to find practical solutions for complex situations.

Originally published in 1940.

This book explores the role of modesty in the thought of Albert Camus.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

New philosophical essays on love by a diverse group of international scholars.

This book offers new insights into the nature of human rational capacities by engaging inferentialism with empirical research in the cognitive sciences.

This book highlights the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings on psychology and psychological phenomena for the historical development of contemporary psychology.

The book highlights a neglected aspect of our moral practices: we can morally protest objectionable conduct without blaming agents for it.

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 unique reference surveys current theoretical and empirical advances in understanding individual differences in narcissistic personality, as well as the latest perspectives on controversies in the field.

A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility and just desert is libertarian free will.

Mental Wellbeing and Psychology unpacks the philosophical and psychological need to understand ourselves through an exploration of historical archives and artistic creativity.

An analysis and assessment of Nietzsche's metapsychology.

'Is life worth living?

Emerging research on the subject of happiness-in psychology, economics, and public policy-reawakens and breathes new life into long-standing philosophical questions about happiness (e.

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

This book presents a systematic exploration of the subjective experience, keeping the investigation for the most part within a subjective first person perspective through the use of "e;vignettes"e; as sources of data.

'Has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett'The heir to Oliver Sacks' David BaddielA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTHGluttony.

The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria.

Ist eine wissenschaftliche Erklärung unseres Geistes möglich?

Philosophical questions surrounding skill and expertise can be traced back as far as Ancient Greece, China, and India.

This book works to unpack and explicate women's personas.

When ordinary people--mathematicians among them--take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason.

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant's philosophy.

How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us?

This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law.

This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology.

The fifteen essays in this second edition of this highly popular Companion address all aspects of Hume''s wide-ranging thought.

A provocative account of the primacy of intellectual trust and authority.

Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences.

This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture.

This is the first book-length philosophical study of positive psychology, with a particular focus on positive education theory.

This is the first book-length presentation and defense of a new theory of human and machine cognition, according to which human persons are superminds.

This book illustrates the method of multiple hypotheses with detailed examples and describes the limitations facing all methods (including the method of multiple hypotheses) as the means for constructing knowledge about nature.

How do we understand memory in the early novel?

Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in shaping our moral thought.

At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character.

Is the everyday understanding of belief susceptible to scientific investigation?

An empirically informed philosophical account of human touch as a single, unified sensory modality that plays a central role in perception.

Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness.

Accounts of human and animal action have been central to modern philosophy from Suarez and Hobbes in the sixteenth century to Wittgenstein and Anscombe in the mid-twentieth century via Locke, Hume, Kant, and Hegel, among many others.

Wie steht es mit den humanistischen Grundlagen unseres Lebens und Zusammenlebens?

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.

This volume collects four published articles by the late Tamara Horowitz and two unpublished papers on decision theory: "e;Making Rational Decisions When Preferences Cycle"e; and the monograph-length "e;The Backtracking Fallacy.