Philosophy of mind

Jerry Fodor is one of the most important philosophers of mind in recent decades.

In this book, Hackett introduces the traditional usage of the mapping sentence within quantitative research, reviews its philosophical underpinnings, and proposes the "e;declarative mapping sentence"e; as an instrument and approach to qualitative scholarship.

How do we understand numbers?

Much of the modern period was dominated by a `reductionist' theory of science.

Analyses the accounts of moral obligation offered by Kant, Hegel and Kierkegaard, thereby challenging current histories of modern ethics.

In Hegel's Idea of the Good Life, Joshua D.

This unique reference surveys current theoretical and empirical advances in understanding individual differences in narcissistic personality, as well as the latest perspectives on controversies in the field.

This carefully designed, multi-authored textbook covers a broad range of theoretical issues in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience.

This book focuses on the role of intuition in querying Socratic problems, the very nature of intuition itself, and whether it can be legitimately used to support or reject philosophical theses.

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature.

The idea of a disjunctive theory of visual experiences first found expression in J.

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

Among the various approaches to the question of the nature of the mind (or soul), Augustine's philosophical arguments for the existence of an incorporeal and spiritual substance in man and against materialism are here thoroughly examined on their merits as a source of insight for contemporary discussion.

This book, first published in 1953, was one of the first written in English that attempted to provide a sympathetic analysis of the new movement of Existentialism.

This edited volume examines aspects of the mind/consciousness that are relevant to the interpretations of quantum mechanics.

In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

This is a comprehensive examination of the ideas of the early modern philosophers on the nature of mind.

This book argues that post-PhD career planning should ideally begin at the same time as the PhD itself.

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Studien sowie grundlegende Beiträge unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, um den Spuren von Körper und Raum-Relationen nachzugehen.

This Routledge Revival reissues Oliver Letwin's philosophical treatise: Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, first published in 1987, which concerns the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine.

This edited volume seeks to integrate research and scholarship on the topic of embodiment, with the idea being that thinking and feeling are often grounded in more concrete representations related to perception and action.

According to an ancient and still popular view -- sometimes known as 'eudaimonism' -- a person's well-being, or quality of life, is ultimately determined by his or her level of happiness.

Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain.

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist.

Rated as one of the top 15 breakthroughs in medicine over the last 150 years, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become highly influential in medicine.

This book is devoted to one of the central problems of contemporary thinking, for which c.

Handeln, Personsein, Menschenwürde und zahlreiche Fragen der Angewandten Ethik – das ist das weite Spektrum dieser Festschrift und auch des Denkens von Ralf Stoecker, dem sie gewidmet ist.

In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.

Speakers can get to know the meaning of any of indefinitely many sentences that they have never heard before.

This book continues the exploration of themes either neglected or devalued by others working in the field of philosophy and culture.

Cruelty is such a ubiquitous and at the same time disturbing phenomenon that we take for granted that we understand what it is, and how it impacts the ways in which we think about our humanity as a moral condition-how we understand our moral significance.

The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution.

Emotional Development is a topic that embraces a range of disciplines, including, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, primatology, philosophy, history, cognitive science, computer science, and education.

This book investigates the emergence and development of a distinct concept of self-awareness in pre-modern Islamic philosophy.

This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today's most central tracks of cognitive science discourse.

This book investigates the emergence and development of a distinct concept of self-awareness in pre-modern Islamic philosophy.

In this fascinating book on an exciting and timely topic, James Trefil explores just exactly what it is that is so special about the human mind that sets us so far from all the other animals and that also makes it impossible to design a computer that coul

Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neuroaesthetics, and neurotheology are just a few of the novel disciplines that have been inspired by a combination of ancient knowledge together with recent discoveries about how the human brain works.

There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness.

Dale Goldhaber reframes the nature-nurture debates, providing fresh insight into old and persistent questions of human behavior and development.

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

The book explores concepts throughout the history of philosophy that suggest the possibility of unconscious thought and lay the foundation for ideas of unconscious thought in modern philosophy and psychoanalysis.

This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions.

The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term.

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.

This book engages the practice of community-based psychology through a critical lens in order in order to demonstrate that clinical practice and psychological assessment in particular, require more affirmative psychopolitical agency in the face of racial injustice within the urban environment.