Philosophy of mind

Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science.

Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency.

Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society.

This volume seeks to add a unique perspective on the complex relationship between psychology and politics, focusing on three analytical points of view: 1) psychology, politics, and complex thought,  2) bio/psycho/social factors of masculinity and power, and 3) underlying factors in political behavior.

This book takes an innovative view of language and politics, charting the terrain of political identities and discourses in New Zealand through detailed linguistic analysis of interactions with its voters.

This book takes a novel approach to the study of male eating disorders - an area that is often dominated by clinical discourses.

This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for aesthetic understanding.

This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective.

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R.

This book explains, in simple but accurate terms, how orthodox quantum mechanics works.

This book brings together a team of international scholars to attempt to understand David Hume's conception of the self.

Drawing connections between madness, philosophy and autobiography, this book addresses the question of how Nietzsche's madness might have affected his later works.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the "e;International Association for Computing and Philosophy"e; (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years.

After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make.

This book is an attempt to make sense of the tension in Nietzsche's work between the unashamedly egocentric and the apparently mystical.

This book explores a central question in the study of depth perception - 'does the visual system rely upon objective knowledge and subjective meaning to specify visual depth?

This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction.

This book is a collection of studies on topics related to subjectivity and selfhood in medieval and early modern philosophy.

This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape.

This book explores a new way of applying clinical ethics.

This book represents an outstanding contribution to the field of somatic psychology.

This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy.

This book analyzes Western and Chinese philosophical texts to determine why laughter and the comic have not been a major part of philosophical discourse.

This book takes a critical look at the role of language in an increasingly diversified and globalised world, using the new framework of 'sociolinguistics of globalisation' to draw together research from human geography, sociolinguistics, and intercultural communication.

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity.

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

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship.

This book explores the perception, construction and performance of professional identities in initial teacher education (ITE).

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.

This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness.

This book explores curiosity from a normative epistemological viewpoint.

This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia.

This book explores the idea that there is a certain performativity of thought connecting Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults.

The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski's philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates.

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one's action causing further consequences.

This volume features essays that explore the insights of the 14th-century Parisian nominalist philosopher, John Buridan.

This volume answers the question: Why do we believe what we believe?

This book explores the pedagogical possibilities of testimony and witnessing.

This book explores the psychosocial significance of loss and exclusion in the lives of many Iranian immigrants living in London since the Iranian revolution of 1979.

Building on the thriving discussion on the role of attention within the phenomenological tradition, from Aron Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty to Bernhard Waldenfels, this book investigates the enigmatic role of attention as a faculty that enables change within subjective and intersubjective experience.

Restoring the Human Context to Literary and Performance Studies argues that much of contemporary literary theory is still predicated, at least implicitly, on outdated linguistic and psychological models such as post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism, which significantly contradict current dominant scientific views.

This book offers a new perspective on the motherhood experience.

This edited volume highlights relevant issues and solutions for diversity groups within the workplace.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real.

This book examines how young people in Europe construct their political identities.