Philosophy of mind

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.

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 offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy.

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.