Philosophy of mind

Was bedeutet die Idee von fühlenden Maschinen für uns Menschen?

This book probes the sources and nature of the 'discontents of modernity'.

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is a towering figure in modern thought, but one who has hitherto been severely underappreciated.

Understanding the relationship between human cultural psychology and the evolutionary ecology of living systems is currently limited by abstract perceptions of space and boundaries as sources of definitive discontinuity.

Building upon the contributions to the movement of Speculative Realism by Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux, After Speculative Realism broadens and intensifies a number of key arguments in the field, engaging with both major philosophers of the past such as Hegel and Kant, and contemporary thinkers like Badiou and i ek.

This book develops a new approach to naturalizing phenomenology.

Originally published in 1978.

The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.

Human beings are in contact with the world through their minds.

Explanatory Optimism about the Hard Problem of Consciousness argues that despite the worries of explanatory pessimists, consciousness can be fully explained in "e;easy"e; scientific terms.

Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us?

Wodurch zeichnet sich menschliches intelligentes Handeln aus und in welcher Beziehung steht dieses Handeln zum Wissen der handelnden Personen?

The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time.

The concept of language is an elusive one, and the concept of mind even more so.

What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart?

This is the first volume dedicated solely to the topic of epistemological disjunctivism.

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics.

Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary.

This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L.

This book adopts an approach based on relational psychoanalysis, developed in the USA in and since the 1990s and guided by the self-psychology championed by Kohut and the Post-Kohutians.

Hermann Lotze, der zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Philosophen des 19.

What is a self?

This book is an anthology of commentary and criticism written within the transitional period between Alan Watts' 1973 death and the twenty-first century intellectual horizon.

One of the most important research programmes in contemporary cognitive science is that of extended cognition, whereby features of a subject's cognitive environment can in certain conditions become constituent parts of the cognitive process itself.

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint products of brain, body, and environment.

The great majority of books on artificial intelligence are written by AI experts who understandably focus on its achievements and potential transformative effects on society.

Do people have free will, or this universal belief an illusion?

In this book, Sven Bernecker investigates the defining characteristics of memory and the issues essential to understanding it.

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same cognitive processes as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations.

When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit.

Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.

Manfred Kets de Vries wears many "e;hats"e;-psychoanalyst, executive coach, consultant, management educator, researcher, writer-but he has noticed that whichever hat he is wearing, every question he is asked boils down to one thing: "e;How can I live a well-lived life?

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves?

Featuring original essays from leading scholars in philosophy and psychology, this volume investigates and rethinks the role of practical wisdom in light of the most recent developments in virtue theory and moral, social and developmental psychology.

What constitutes personhood?

The recent centennial of the original publication of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams has generated a new wave of critical reappraisals of this monumental work.

This book explores adult experiences of autism diagnosis.

Epistemic cognition, the philosophical core of metacognition, concerns people's knowledge about the justification and truth of beliefs.

In diesem Büchlein geht es darum, Mitmenschen, die in große seelische oder auch körperliche Not geraten sind, eine Perspektive aufzuzeigen, mittels derer sie diese Not in eine große Hoffnung auf ein von unbeschreiblicher Freude erfülltes Leben verwandeln können.

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Despite the many attempts to disentangle the relationship between morality and emotion, as is clear from the myriad of approaches that try to understand the nature and importance of their connection, the extent of this synergy remains rather controversial.

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study.

This book, first published in 1962, is based on a series of lectures first given at Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960, dealing with 'psychical research' - i.

The philosophical study of well-being concerns what makes lives good for their subjects.

Professor Findlay in this book, originally published in 1961, set out to justify, and to some extent carry out, a 'material value-ethic', ie.