Philosophy of mind

Knowledge how to do things is a pervasive and central element of everyday life.

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G.

David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down.

Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers.

How does thinking affect doing?

This book examines the philosophical and scientific achievements of Sir Kenelm Digby, a successful English diplomat, privateer and natural philosopher of the mid-1600s.

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

This volume identifies and develops how philosophy of mind and phenomenology interact in both conceptual and empirically-informed ways.

The philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein continues to have a profound influence that transcends barriers between philosophical disciplines and reaches beyond philosophy itself.

This book scrutinizes the practice of sailing and its relation to philosophy of mind.

A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.

The goal of this volume is to highlight theoretical and methodological advances in cultural neuroscience and the implications of theoretical and empirical advances in cultural neuroscience for philosophy.

Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide is the first interdisciplinary reference resource which authoritatively takes stock of the progress made both in the philosophy of emotions and in affective science from Ancient Greece to today.

This edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and practical rationality, and offers a comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire.

Complementary to Theism and Cosmology, this book begins with a discussion of philosophical and theological idea-ism, and our common beliefs concerning nature, man, and God.

First published in 1962, Bodily Sensations argues that bodily sensations are nothing but impressions that physical happenings are taking place in the body, impressions that may correspond or fail to correspond to physical reality.

This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small.

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography.

Is knowledge relative?

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich's philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2) his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and (3) his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Humanity and his judgments on terrorism.

A philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational.

Families perform rituals each day without knowing it.

The question of what characterizes feelings of being alive is a puzzling and controversial one.

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.

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.

It is hard to interpret quantum mechanics.

Could robots be genuinely intelligent?

Self-deception raises complex questions about the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind.

Giorgio Prodi (1928-1987) was an important Italian scientist who developed an original philosophy based on two basic assumptions: 1.

This volume gathers together leading philosophers of science and cognitive scientists from around the world to provide one of the first book-length studies of this important and emerging field.

This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant.

This book provides the first full length treatment of the nature and function of freedom within the work of Henri Bergson.

This is the first book-length philosophical study of positive psychology, with a particular focus on positive education theory.

This book provides an accessible, comprehensive and critical overview of theories of linguistic reference and meaning in the 20th century.

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.

Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue.

We say "e;the grass is green"e; or "e;lemons are yellow"e; to state what everyone knows.

In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth.

This text explores how self-consciousness and self-understanding differ phenomenologically from the experience and comprehension of others, and the extent to which such relations are constitutively interdependent.

Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Wittgenstein's aphoristic style holds great charm, but also a great danger: the reader is apt to glean too much from a single fragment and too little from the fragments as a whole.

Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon-and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noe explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.

This book, first published in 1991, has two related goals.

The Philosophical Inquiry concerning Human Liberty of Anthony Collins' was considered by Joseph Priestley and Voltaire to be the best book written on freewill up to their own time.

This is the first collection of essays exclusively devoted to knowledge from non-knowledge and related issues.

First published in 1990, Happiness is based fairly and squarely on scientific evidence and provides realistic insights into the following questions: What is happiness?