Philosophy of mind

In diesem Buch führt Andreas Schönau neurowissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Modelle mit philosophischen Theorien und Konzeptionen der Handlungstheorie aus einer neuartigen Bottom-up-Perspektive zusammen.

A fresh interpretation of this important and widely misunderstood concept as an acquired ability to make principles and essences intelligible.

Representing the first comprehensive analysis of Gaga and Ohad Naharin's aesthetic approach, this book follows the sensual and mental emphases of the movement research practiced by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company.

Volume XVIPhenomenology of Emotions, Systematical and Historical PerspectivesAim and Scope: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.

This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter?

This book explores the pedagogical possibilities of testimony and witnessing.

This book critically examines and theorizes the process of how return migrants reintegrate into their countries of origin.

The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The "e;suspects"e; of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the "e;senses"e; of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, Midgely, and other critical voices.

While the philosophical study of mind has always required philosophers to attend to the scientific developments of their day, from the twentieth century onwards it has been especially influenced and informed by psychology, neuroscience, and computer science.

Originally published in 1967.

How did the human mind evolve and how does it emerge, again and again, in individual lives?

This is a special thematic edition of the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Volume 9, Number 9 from 1999.

Originally published between 1928 and 1987, the volumes in this set provide an interesting look back at how psychology has developed as a discipline and some of the problems it has encountered along the way.

Where there is data there are questions of ownership, leaks, and worries about misuse.

The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty''s philosophy.

Can normative words like "e;good,"e; "e;ought,"e; and "e;reason"e; be defined in entirely non-normative terms?

The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry.

This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.

Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary.

This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.

This book presents an interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism.

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

In the 20th century theorists of mind were almost exclusively concerned with various versions of the materialist thesis, but prior to current debates accounts of soul and mind reveal an extraordinary richness and complexity which bear careful and impartial investigation.

This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness.

The aim of this book is to foster a more explicit and direct discussion of the concept of sacrifice and its importance in moral philosophy.

This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith''s thought.

Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought.

Behavior and Culture in One Dimension adopts a broad interdisciplinary approach, presenting a unified theory of sequences and their functions and an overview of how they underpin the evolution of complexity.

Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology.

A cutting-edge and groundbreaking set of new essays by top philosophers on key topics related to the ever-influential knowledge argument.

Salience is both central to human life and relatively underexplored as a philosophical topic.

This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett.

This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham.

This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind.

This book puts forward a harmonious analysis of similarities and differences between two concepts-human minds and cultures-and strives for a multicultural spectrum of philosophical explorations that could assist them in pondering the striking pursuit of envisaging human minds and cultures as an essential appraisal of philosophy and the social sciences.

Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology demonstrates the potential of using cognitive archaeology framing to explore key issues in contemporary psychology and other behavioral sciences.

Peter Sloterdijk is an internationally renowned philosopher and thinker whose work is now seen as increasingly relevant to our contemporary world situation and the multiple crises that punctuate it, including those within ethical, political, economic, technological, and ecological realms.

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 presents a much-needed discussion on ethnic identification and morphosyntactic variation in San Francisco Chinatown-a community that has received very little attention in linguistic research.

Like Pygmalion with his Galatea, we create the characters of people in our lives.

Psychologist, philosopher, teacher, writer-William James stood closer than any other thinker to the center of the confluence of intellectual and artistic forces that defined the culture of modernism.

Contributors to this volume consider the implications of 'the Age of Breath': a spiritual shift in human awareness to the needs of the other figured through breathing.

This volume answers questions that lead to a clearer picture of third-person self- knowledge, the self-interpretation it embeds, and its narrative structure.