Philosophy of mind

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility is a collection of 33 articles by leading international scholars on the topic of moral responsibility and its main forms, praiseworthiness and blameworthiness.

There are myriad questions that emerge when one considers emotions and decision-making: What produces emotions?

A translation of Schopenhauer''s major and influential work which contains his entire philosophical system.

What are scientific theories?

Experiences of Depression is a philosophical exploration of what it is like to be depressed.

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

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection.

This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language.

The traditional focus of debate in philosophy of action has been the causal theory of action and metaphysical questions about the nature of actions as events.

This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female.

From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of 'story' our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole.

Gehirne unter Spannung 

Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung verändert unsere Kommunikation, unsere Bildung, unser Sozialleben, nicht zuletzt unsere Wahrnehmung von uns selbst.

This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language.

An alarming number of philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that mind extends beyond the brain and body.

This volume focuses on philosophical problems concerning sense perception in the history of philosophy.

This highly accessible discussion takes up imagination and creativity and explores in some detail the relationship between them.

Thoughts is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo which together constitute a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind.

For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has addressed an astonishing range of issues in the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, cognitive science, and the philosophical study of mind.

Is it only through vision that we can perceive a landscape?

Richard Cross provides the first complete and detailed account of Duns Scotus's theory of cognition, tracing the processes involved in cognition from sensation, through intuition and abstraction, to conceptual thought.

This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field.

In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C.

Although we usually identify our abilities to reason, to adapt to situations, and to solve problems with the mind, recent research has shown that we should not, in fact, detach these abilities from the body.

Science and Psychology provides a comprehensive introduction to the structure and characteristics of scientific explanation, using examples from a variety of sciences to illuminate the scientific approach taken in psychology.

The book examines how coevolved intraspecific aggression and appeasement gestures can give rise to complex social, cultural, and psychopathological phenomena.

For the last 100 years historians have denigrated the psychology of the Critique of Pure Reason.

Rationality of science was the topic of two conferences (held in 1988 and 1989) organized by the Department of Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University.

In this third edition of The Triadic Structure of the Mind, Francesco Belfiore begins from the basic ontological conception of the structure and functioning of the "e;mind"e; or "e;spirit"e; as an evolving, conscious triad composed of intellect, sensitiveness, and power, each exerting a selfish and a moral activity.

This book investigates the ubuntu theory-based conception of virtue and moral character formation in the northern, western, and eastern regions of Africa, suggesting a critical reconstruction of ubuntu by conceptualising the four different forms of practices in moral character formation.

Since the millennium, the neurophysiological and psychological bases of moral judgements and actions have been the topic of much empirical research.

First Published in 1969, System, Structure and Experience offers a basic information-flow design capable of accounting for the complex operations of a culturally cognizant and purposive mind consistently with the general relationship of the human organism and its environment.

This book develops a new approach to naturalizing phenomenology.

This book discusses the profound philosophy and practical psychology behind yoga, beyond its popular body-culture aspect.

conditions of the possibility of Experience .

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking').

In recent years there have been a number of books-both anthologies and monographs-that have focused on the Liar Paradox and, more generally, on the semantic paradoxes, either offering proposed treatments to those paradoxes or critically evaluating ones that occupy logical space.

Written by eminent psychologist Bernard J.

"e;Understanding Psychoanalysis"e; presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought.

This book, first published in 1974, studies the similarities between Rousseau's thought and that of the Stoics, examining Rousseau's ideas on man, society, the state and government.

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Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades.

This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion.

First published in 1952, Thinking in Opposites insists on the need for a carefully thought-out, rather than a merely authoritarian, basis for faith; but also insists that an indispensable preliminary is to know the laws which govern and limit the scope of human thinking in relation to three areas: the external world as it is; the internal world of feeling; and the interrelation of each of these with the other.

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E.

Embodied Selves and Divided Minds examines how research in embodied cognition and enactivism can contribute to our understanding of the nature of self-consciousness, the metaphysics of personal identity, and the disruptions to self-awareness that occur in case of psychopathology.

Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom.

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.