Philosophy of mind

Originally published in 1969.

This book redevelops an important movement in philosophy for the first time, exploring the ways in which three of the greatest thinkers are connected.

The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs.

This concise volume presents for the first time a coherent and detailed account of why we experience feelings of being present in the physical world and in computer-mediated environments, why we often don't, and why it matters - for design, psychotherapy, tool use and social creativity amongst other practical applications.

This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabriel's version of New Realism, which spans the fields of metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and meta-philosophy.

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings.

The thread running through this collection of essays is the inviolate marriage between philosophy and psychology.

This book puts forward a harmonious analysis of similarities and differences between two concepts-human minds and cultures-and strives for a multicultural spectrum of philosophical explorations that could assist them in pondering the striking pursuit of envisaging human minds and cultures as an essential appraisal of philosophy and the social sciences.

An accessible analysis of the relationship between folk psychology and contemporary scientific psychology.

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social world.

This book formulates a new theory of subjectivity in the context of the claimed "e;death of the subject"e; in the post-modern and post-human age.

This volume provides innovative perspectives on the scholarly connection between the humanities and happiness, and considers the narrative expressions of happiness and recent investigations about happiness, its metrics, and objective insights about human wellbeing.

A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "e;kind"e; has a certain property.

Astract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex.

Emotions mediate between the past, the present and the future, allowing ghosts to transcend the boundaries believed to divide times.

Infancy research and philosophy explore "e;first things,"e; yet few books bring the two fields into contact.

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.

Ethics for Robots describes and defends a method for designing and evaluating ethics algorithms for autonomous machines, such as self-driving cars and search and rescue drones.

This book is an empirically informed investigation of the philosophical problem of mental causation, and a philosophical investigation of the status of cognitive scientific generalisations.

This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language.

We say "e;the grass is green"e; or "e;lemons are yellow"e; to state what everyone knows.

Although philosophers have explored memory since antiquity, recent years have seen the birth of philosophy of memory as a distinct field.

The new edition of this bestselling book, The Psychology of Meaning in Life, has been thoroughly updated to offer an inspiring exploration of cutting-edge findings from the psychology of meaning in life.

Tyler Burge presents a substantial, original study of what it is for individuals to represent the physical world with the most primitive sort of objectivity.

How do we understand memory in the early novel?

This collection features 26 new essays on character from first-rate scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law.

This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity.

Human beings are not model epistemic citizens.

Welchen Status haben mentale Zustände, wie bewusste Empfindungen, Wünsche, Überzeugungen oder Emotionen, in einer physikalischen Welt?

This book provides a thoroughly worked out and systematic presentation of an interpretivist position in the philosophy of mind, of the view that having mental properties is a matter of interpretation.

This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions-one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems.

Significance and System: Essays on Kant's Ethics brings together central lines of thought in Mark Timmons's work on Kant's moral theory.

Suffering is a central component of our lives.

In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.

This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors.

In this book, William R.

This book offers a dynamic portrayal of the preeminent Neo-Confucian Wang Yangming's philosophy of the heartmind.

The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs.

First Minds: Caterpillars, 'Karyotes, and Consciousness presents a novel theory of the origins of mind and consciousness dubbed the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC).

This book explains and justifies efficient general methods of making decisions and will guide practical efforts to streamline rational choice.

Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience.

Since ancient times, metaphysical theories have been shaped by the dialectical relations between metaphysical positions.

This book is a comprehensive study of Conventionalism, providing a fresh perspective on twentieth-century philosophy.

We spend a lot of time thinking about other people: their motivations, what they are thinking, why they want particular things.