Philosophy of mind

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This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan's controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important.

This volume considers the numerous philosophical ideas and arguments found in and inspired by the critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of 'perversion', which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years.

When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values?

This book explores the quality of life among Badagas, an ethnic minority group in South India, as they navigate a society in flux, with specific reference to rural-to-urban migration and new media.

Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher.

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively.

This book provides new perspectives on endurance sport and how it contributes to a  good and sustainable life in times of climate change, ecological disruption and inconvenient truths.

This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and discussion by scientists and philosophers.

In this book, Peter Gardner contends that the production of narratives of ethnic peoplehood is an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity among the previously dominant.

This book aims to lay bare the logical foundations of tractable reasoning.

This book is concerned with the human individual and her relationship with the communities of which she is a member.

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle.

This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora.

This book applies Heidegger's writings to experimental fictions and film genres in order to study a being-there that performs itself beyond liveness and a future that is already here.

Auch mit Worten, Phrasen, Präpositionen, Fragen sowie anderen semantischen Einheiten der natürlichen Sprache ist es möglich, zu rechnen.

This book approaches consumer psychology from a unique perspective - it covers the entire lifespan, from birth to old age.

This wide-ranging and ground-breaking book, especially relevant given Brexit and renewed Scottish independence campaigning, provides in-depth analysis of ways Scottishness has been performed and modified over the centuries.

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of film in the context of the Anthropocene: the new geological era in which human beings have collectively become a force of nature.

This book explores the philosophy of love through the thought and life of Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph.

This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field.

What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs?

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama.

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Kantian principle that 'objects conform to our cognition' from the perspective of a Copernican world-view which stands diametrically opposed to Kant's because founded on the principle that our cognition conforms to objects.

This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small.

This book originated at a workshop by the same name held in May 2018 at the University of Pavia.

This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory.

This book critically examines and theorizes the process of how return migrants reintegrate into their countries of origin.

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.