Philosophy of mind

This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users.

How do you know your own thoughts and feelings?

This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions.

Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body.

This book is the first in-depth study of the representation of animals on television.

This book examines the nature of age as an aspect of social identity and its relationship to experiences of formal education.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G.

This book takes the head-scratching out of human sexuality.

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 Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion draws on the expertise of leading scholars and thinkers to explore the violent origins of culture, the meaning of ritual, and the conjunction of theology and anthropology, as well as secularization, science, and terrorism.

This book offers new direction in disability studies, by integrating the medical and social model of disability.

A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral.

In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality.

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The body has always had the potential to unsettle us with its strange exigencies and suppurations, its demands and desires, and thus throughout the ages, it has continued to be a subject of interest and obsession.

The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders.

As introduced by Shakti Gawain to more than seven million readers worldwide, creative visualization is the art of using mental imagery and affirmation to produce positive changes in your life.

Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it.

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance - and survive the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp.

Dazzlingly original but deeply engaged with the philosophical currents of her time, Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was one of the most ingenious and exciting philosophers of the seventeenth century.

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Beyond the Centaur questions the accuracy and usefulness of the virtually unquestioned ancient consensus that persons are composed of unequally valued, hierarchically stacked antagonistic components, usually soul or mind and body.

This book emphasizes the rising need for people to have a basic understanding of science and technology and the emphatic role they can play in shaping the AI-driven future, especially in terms of creating sustainable societies with growing job opportunities.

In this lively and entertaining introduction to the philosophy of mind, Edward Feser explores the questions central to the discipline; such as 'do computers think', and 'what is consciousness'; and gives an account of all the most important and significant attempts that have been made to answer them.

Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished poet and fiction writer Martha Ronk.

In the human quest for orientation vis-a-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role.

This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course.

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 edited collection charts the rise and the fall of the self, from its emergence as an autonomous agent during the Enlightenment, to the modern-day selfie self, whose existence is realised only through continuous external validation.

This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture.

This book outlines the relationship between social identity theory and military to civilian transition, examining the mass movement of soldiers back into the civilian occupational world by considering literature specifically on role exit and in relation to the process of full-time military exit.

This innovative book proposes a unique and original perspective on the nature of the mind and how phenomenal consciousness may arise in a physical world.

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of Heidegger's account of affective phenomena.

This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia.

This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical  perspective.

This edited collection presents the latest cutting-edge research in the philosophy and cognitive science of temporal illusions.

This book addresses the need to radically transform societies plagued by racism.

It is hard to interpret quantum mechanics.

In this book, the author develops a new form of structural realism and deals with the problem of representation.

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of of the logotherapy of Viktor Frankl and delves into the spiritual depths of an inherent search for meaning in life.

This book provides a survey of key process-philosophical approaches that, in conversation with selected concepts across the biological and physical sciences, help us to think about living processes, or 'lived time,' at different scales of functioning.

This book is a theoretical account for general psychology of how human beings meaningfully relate with their bodies-- from the basic physiological processes upwards to the highest psychological functions of religiosity, ethical reasoning, and devotional practices.

This book argues that existentialism's concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism.

This book examines the benefits of applying the Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) to teacher professional development.

This book describes how civic dialogue can serve as an antidote to a polarized public square.

This volume brings together a collection of essays that explore in a new way how unacknowledged moral concerns are integral to debates in the philosophy of mind.