Philosophy of mind

This book reviews the research on Einstein's brain from a sociological perspective and in the context of the social brain paradigm.

This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of "e;Enlightenment rationalism.

This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood.

This volume translates Brentano's intentionality into medieval psychological and ontological discussions through Sadrian theories of sense perception and mental existence.

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the representation of traumatic experience.

This edited book examines modern foreign language teachers who research their own and others' experiences of identity construction in the context of living and teaching in UK institutions, primarily in the Higher Education sector.

This book proposes that Spanish author Luis Martin-Santos' work focuses on the effects of patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity on men, to actively contribute to freeing both men and women from the yoke of patriarchy.

Humour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of World Englishes and their place in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom.

This book illustrates the foundations of status research from the perspective of recruiting.

This book explores how dementia acts as an existential threat, both to people diagnosed with the condition, and to their carers.

This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music.

This book engages with what are widely recognized as the two core dimensions of emotion.

This monograph offers a novel, neurocognitive theory concerning words and language.

This book explores Technological Human Enhancement Advocacy through ethnographically inspired participant observation across a range of sites.

Plurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words "e;I"e; and "e;self"e; as suggestive of eight territories of meaning.

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing.

This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding.

This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence.

This book elaborates Jean Amery's critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind's Limits and his other writings.

This book explores how the trans phenomenon can challenge the existing concept of the Self and its nature.

This volume is a collection of essays on a special theme in Aristotelian philosophy of mind: the internal senses.

The modern West has made the focus on individuality, individual freedom, and self-identity central to its self-definition, and these concepts have been crucially shaped by Christianity.

This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human.

Working with Transgender Young People and their Families advocates a critical developmental approach aimed at countering the cisgenderism that can be perceived in previous developmental literature on gender.

This brief presents the case study of a hill in Czech Republic (Rip) and its region, and contributes to theorization in sociocultural psychology on three points, along three current debates.

This edited collection re-examines the global impact of Sartre's philosophy from 1944-68.

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.