Philosophy of mind

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason.

This is the first book to offer a philosophical engagement with microaggressions.

The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness brings together two schools of thought and practice that - despite rarely being examined jointly - provide an incredibly fruitful way for exploring thinking, the mind, and the nature and practice of mindfulness.

Bringing together recent case studies and insights into current developments, this collection introduces philosophers to a range of experimental methods from neuroscience.

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory.

Unlike most other discussions of responsibility, which focus on the idea that to be responsible, agents must in some sense act voluntarily, this book focuses on the relatively neglected idea that they must in some sense know what they are doing.

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This book contains essential contributions to enrich and broaden the application field of pragmatics.

This is naturalistic theory of when, how and why our utterances are interpreted as speech acts: assertions, orders or promises.

Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience.

Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious is the only comprehensive, systematic study of Sigmund Freud's philosophy of mind.

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson's L'evolution creatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of 'perversion', which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years.

Analyses the ongoing scientific debates surrounding reduction and emergence, arguing that these debates are empirically resolvable.

This book explores the cognitive plausibility of computational language models and why it's an important factor in their development and evaluation.

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This book argues against the mainstream view that we should treat propositional attitudes as internal states, suggesting that to treat beliefs as things of certain sort (i.

The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively.

The volume focusses on the ethical dimensions of the technological scaffold embedding human thought and action, which has been brought to attention of the cognitive sciences by situated cognition theories.

The aim of this book is to acquire a better understanding of the question 'who am I?

A Critical Approach to Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology: Soul, Self, and Science examines the evolving concept of human consciousness throughout the ages to show how humanity progressed from 'studies of the soul' - a major concern of ancient philosophy - to a science of the mind including the self - a primary concern of contemporary psychology.

Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his theory that meaning is a function of language games and that social configurations are determinants of knowledge; and Popper's evolutionary epistemology - conscious knowledge is a special case of the relationship which exists between all living beings and their environments.

This book presents Freud''s theory of the mind as an organic whole, built from first principles and developing in sophistication over time.

Relationalism is the view in philosophy of mind that particulars in our environment are constituents of conscious perception.

Comedy, Seriously provides a philosophical interpretation of comedy and argues that comedy displays a particular kind of rationality that reflects philosophical thinking.

This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology.

Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases.

Slips of the tongue, unwitting favoritism, and stereotyped assumptions are just some examples of microaggression.

This edited volume seeks to integrate research and scholarship on the topic of embodiment, with the idea being that thinking and feeling are often grounded in more concrete representations related to perception and action.

In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of physics.

The idea that our memories, in some sense, make us who we are, is a common one-and not at all implausible.

This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action and a non-intentionalist account of function in material culture.

This book is divided into three main parts: an introduction to theories of culture, a section on Chinese culture, and one on cultural construction.

Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works.

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.

Seit der Antike haben sich Philosophen sehr aufmerksam und eindringlich mit 'memoria' und 'reminiscentia', mit Gedächtnis und Erinnerung beschäftigt.

Inference has long been a central concern in epistemology, as an essential means by which we extend our knowledge and test our beliefs.

The development of cognitive models is a key step in the challenging research program to advance our understanding of human cognition and behavior.

The Great Convergence explores the existential foundations of human consciousness and the deep existential dimensions of reality, as well as their connection to the concept of The Creator.

Thomas Szasz wrote over thirty books and several hundred articles, replete with mordant criticism of psychiatry, in both scientific and popular periodicals.

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.

Teacher, thinker, writer, and speaker, J.

In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevant information.

Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real.

David Hume, einer der einflussreichsten Denker der Aufklärung, revolutionierte das Verständnis von menschlicher Erkenntnis, Moral und der Natur des Selbst.