Philosophy of mind

This book takes an in-depth look at the integration of fashion and philosophy.

This book presents a novel interpretation of major problems of Indian ethics from an applied ethical perspective.

The present book intends to approach the problem of mind, meaning and consciousness from a non-naturalist or transcendental point of view.

This Key Concepts pivot considers the fundamental Chinese cultural ideal of harmony (he/?

This book makes the unorthodox claim that there is no such thing as mental health.

This volume brings together the primary challenges for 21st century cognitive sciences and cultural neuroscience in responding to the nature of human identity, self, and evolution of life itself.

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

This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation.

This book tells about the "e;History of Zen"e; in China and Japan.

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

The emergence of mind in a physical world presents an ontologically and methodologically well founded physicalist proposal that does not lose sight of the special particularity and alleged irreducibility of some of the most obvious phenomena of our existence, such as the human mind.

Discover the roots of our modern thinking!

Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving.

Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence in their own right all are flourishing research disciplines producing surprising and captivating results that continuously influence and change our view on where the limits of intelligent machines lie, each day pushing the boundaries a bit further.

This book is focused on the examination of the particular relationship between developments in neuroscience and commonsense concepts, such as free will, personal identity, privacy, etc.

This book addresses a tightly knit cluster of questions in the philosophy of mind.

This book examines the nexus between the corporeal, emotional, spiritual and intellectual aspects of human life as represented in the writing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition brings together contributions discussing issues arising from theoretical and empirical research on social ontology and social cognition.

This book aims to answer two simple questions: what is it to want and what is it to intend?

Regardless of the subject matter, our studies are always searching for a sense of the universal in the specific.

Analytic philosophy has been a dominant intellectual movement in the 20th century and a reflection of the cultural pre-eminence of scientism.

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FOUNDATIONALISM IN PHILOSOPHY n his autobiographical work, The Education of Henry Adams, this I brooding and disillusioned offspring of American presidents confronted, at age sixty, his own perplexity concerning the new scientific world-view that was emerging at the end of the century.

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2 first-person point of view, I acknowledge these possible handicaps and try to overcome them.

The 11 essays collected here have been composed by members of the North American Spinoza Society.

Self-individualization has been interpreted as the process in which the all-embracing Self unfolds into an infinite variety of different individ- uals, plants, animals and men.

Among the multiple, subliminal passions that inspire our life in innumerable ways, literature shows us one that seems to play a particularly penetrating role in human concerns.

Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words?

Ton van den Beld This book is one of the results of the international conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, which was held at Utrecht University in 1 June 1998.

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself.

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities.

conditions of the possibility of Experience .

Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers.

This book is not written for posterity.

As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field.

The Scope of the Project The concept of holism is at the centre of far-reaching changes in various areas of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century.

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

Dutch Reformed pastor Balthasar Bekker (1634-1698) has long been recognized as a key figure in the end of the witchcraft persecutions in early modern Europe.

Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness.

This series includes monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable.

Creativity is one of the least understood aspects of intelligence and is often seen as `intuitive' and not susceptible to rational enquiry.

Aristotle's Idea of the Soul considers the nature of the soul within Aristotle's psychology and natural philosophy.

In this book we develop various mathematical models of information dynamics, I -dynamics (including the process of thinking), based on methods of classical and quantum physics.

Contemporary Action Theory, Volume I (Individual Action) is concerned with topics in philosophical action theory such as reasons and causes of action, intentions, freedom of will and of action, omissions and norms in legal and ethical contexts, as well as activity, passivity and competence from medical points of view.

This book is a historical investigation of the leading philosophical movement in England in the twentieth century.

The text before you is a study ofthe problematic issue ofmental causation: causation by minds.