Philosophy of mind

Drawing upon data from an Australian study, this book gives voice to beginning teachers navigating their way through their first year of teaching and discovering what it means to be professional learners.

This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology.

This book approaches work by Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou through their shared commitment to multiplicity, a novel approach to addressing one of the oldest philosophical questions: is being one or many?

This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein's broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection.

This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse.

Why has so much of our recent attention been focused on AI while RI (Real Intelligence) is all but forgotten?

This book is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory, who dedicated their lives to bearing witness and writing about the concentration camps, seeking, in particular, to give voice to those who did not return.

 The book is the first formulation of a meta-philosophical scheme rooted in the embodied cognition paradigm.

This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism.

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "e;the mind-body problem"e;.

This volume expands the concept and role of the schema, with three goals in mind:  1) to outline the continuing issues in the schema concept as the legacy of Kant's concept and analysis, 2) to show that Kant's challenges resulted in successful but truncated views of the schema and its functions, 3) to reconstruct Otto Selz's schema concept by proposing an alternative.

This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die?

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

This edited book offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary studies within cognitive science.

This book talks about the levels of consciousness and their roles in controlling our life and behaviour.

This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts.

This book explores the concept of certainty, a term which is widely used in everyday language to designate a psychological experience or feeling but is rarely considered controversial or politically charged.

This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence.

This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture.

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved.

This book closely interrogates the construct of identity and the role it plays in career development.

This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of individuality.

This book assesses the construction of masculinities in relation to appearance, embodiment and emotions by drawing on perspectives in psychology, sociology, gender studies and public health.

This book argues against the mainstream view that we should treat propositional attitudes as internal states, suggesting that to treat beliefs as things of certain sort (i.

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions.

This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.

This book examines how a working-class habitus interacts with the elite culture of academia in higher education.

This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language.

This book demonstrates for the first time how the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein can transform 4E Cognitive Science.

This book provides a new argument for the tensed theory of time and emergentism about the self.

This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book.

This textbook takes a Complex Systems Theory approach to examine individual differences between learners and the potential impact of these variables on the process of acquiring a second language.

This book provides an introduction to nineteen popular multiple intelligences.

This book contains a series of essays that explore the concept of unconsciousness as it is situated between phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that 'Man was created in the image of God', transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that 'Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures', further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment's notion of human perfectibility.

This book explores how to help teachers become better advocates for sexual orientation equality in secondary schools.

How does consciousness emerge from a brain that consists only of physical matter and electrical / chemical reactions?

This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand.

This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

This book examines the concepts of subjectivity and selfhood developed in the oeuvre of Jean-Paul Sartre.

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy.

This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric.

This book offers a penetrating analysis of issues raised by the perennial question, 'Are We Special?

The letters transcribed in this book were written by physicist David Bohm to three close female acquaintances in the period 1950 to 1956.

This volume examines Otto Friedrich Bollnow's philosophical approach to education, which brought Heidegger's existentialism together with other theories of what it is to be "e;human.

This book will help the reader to understand the suicidal mind from a phenomenological point of view, shedding light on the feelings of suicidal individuals and also those of clinicians.

In an era when many young people feel marginalized and excluded, this is the first comprehensive, critical account to shed new light on the trouble of 'belonging' and how young people in schools understand, enact and experience 'belonging' (and non-belonging).

This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks.

This book explores the methodological strategies for linking philosophy and neuroscience concerning the study of the conscious brain.