Philosophy of mind

This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

This book aims to provide a unique perspective and definition of the self in psychological literature, filling the gap between psychological science and practical implementation of interventions presented to psychotherapy clients.

Die Menschen in Deutschland haben ein gleichgültiges bis schlechtes Verhältnis zu unserer Gesellschaft.

This volume offers an introduction to consciousness research within philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on the history of ideas and core concepts.

This book interrogates the role of quantification in stories on social media: how do visible numbers (e.

This book highlights the lived experiences of gay Muslims in Malaysia, where Islam is the majority and official religion, and in Britain, where Muslims form a religious minority.

This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals.

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

This book, taking its point of departure from Stanley Cavell's claim that philosophy and autobiography are dimensions of each other, aims to explore some of the relations between these forms of reflection, first by seeking to develop an outline of a philosophy of autobiography, and then by exploring the issue from the side of five autobiographical works.

This book examines what seems to be the basic challenge in neuroscience today: understanding how experience generated by the human brain is related to the physical world we live in.

This edited book deepens the engagement between 21st century philosophy of mind and the emerging technologies which are transforming our environment.

This edited volume offers cross-country and cross-cultural applications of Dialogical Self Theory within the field of education.

This book is about the interweaving between cognitive penetrability and the epistemic role of the two stages of perception, namely early and late vision, in justifying perceptual beliefs.

This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author's journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented college students.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.

This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the economy of attention from the perspective of the basic motive of the pursuit of attention: self-esteem.

The topic of this book is the relationship between mind and the physical world.

This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities.

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as 'original existences': feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own.

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy.

Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme-philosophy as the art of living-and gives it a contemporary twist.

This book consists of a focused and systematic analysis of Freud's implicit argument for unconscious mental states.

This book is an anthology of Mark Edward's creative practice-led projects.

These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton's work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time.

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich's philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2) his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and (3) his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Humanity and his judgments on terrorism.

Drawing on shared research experiences and collaborative projects, this book offers a broad and timely perspective on research on the hand and its current challenges.

This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide.

This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to 'those who come after' - the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumatic events.

This Handbook explores the complex relations between two great schools of continental philosophy: German idealism and existentialism.

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

This book addresses the need for maturational growth in undergraduate and entry-level graduate students as a foundation for professional and civic development.

This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.

From Aristotle to Cognitive Neuroscience identifies the strong philosophical tradition that runs from Aristotle, through phenomenology, to the current analytical philosophy of mind and consciousness.

Mindfulness for the High Performance World provides a unique approach to mindfulness training, built upon the principles of Buddhist philosophy written in line with the Dalai Lama's description of meditation and mindfulness as "e;Science of the Mind"e;.

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 book offers a psychosocial perspective on political violence, employing a strong current of psychoanalytic thinking.

This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics.

This text presents and addresses the philosophical movement of antiphilosophy working thru the texts of Christian thinkers such as Pascal and Kierkegaard.

This volume critiques the increasingly reductive, objectifying, and technologized orientation in mainstream biomedicine.

Many people spend considerable time seeking a sense of purpose in life and, concomitant with that, a sense of personal identity.

The films of Lars von Trier offer unique opportunities for thinking deeply about how Philosophy and Cinema speak to one another.

This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception.

How should we speak of bodies and souls?

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable-and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia.

In The Faith of a Seeker, the author draws upon his lifelong search for truth and understanding, trying to face squarely the difficult issues of faith and science and those raised by biblical criticism.

Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals?

This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition.

Several Python programming books feature tools designed for experimental psychologists.