Philosophy of mind

The subject of personal and moral identity is at the centre of interest, not only of academic research within disciplines such as philosophy and psychology, but also of everyday thinking.

This series will include 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.

For some years we have been conducting at the University of Haifa an interdisciplinary seminar on explanation in philosophy and psychology.

Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language.

In Cooperation, A Philosophical Study, Tuomela offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of cooperation.

This volume is composed chiefly of papers first presented and discussed at the Research Symposium on Feminist Phenomenology held November 18-19, 1994 in Delray Beach, Florida.

How can one think about a thing, think something false about it, and still be thinking about that thing at all?

Temporality has been a central issue in phenomenology since its inception.

This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness.

Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson's philosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson put forward in the `sixties and `seventies.

We act for reasons.

Philosophy of mind has been one of the most active fields in philosophy for the past three decades.

Anapolitanos critically examines and evaluates three basic characteristics of the Leibnizian metaphysical system: Leibniz's version of representation; the principle of continuity; and space, time, and the phenomenally spatio-temporal.

Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years.

Focusing on the topics of self-awareness, temporality, and alterity, this anthology contains contributions by prominent phenomenologists from Germany, Belgium, France, Japan, USA, Canada and Denmark, all addressing questions very much in the center of current phenomenological debate.

Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind.

I: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REID Thomas Reid (1710-96) was born at Strachan in Kincardineshire, Scotland, not far from Aberdeen.

Intentionality is one of the most frequently discussed topics in contemporary phenomenology and analytic philosophy.

The subject of this book is the first person in thought and language.

This book starts with a representation of Husserl's idea of phenomenology as a foundational theory of science.

PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND REASONING The individual man, since his separate existence is manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything apart from his fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is only a negation.

This volume is chiefly composed of revised versions of essays presented and discussed at the research symposium of the same title held in Delray Beach, Florida, on May 7-9, 1993.

This book has been a long time in the making.

Embodiment, Morality and Medicine deals with the relevance of `embodiment' to bioethics, considering both the historical development and contemporary perspectives on the mind--body relation.

This book is a collection of essays in honor of Paul Ziff written by his col- leagues, students, and friends.

The argument of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the Critique of Pure Reason is the deepest and most far-reaching in philosophy.

In the last few years, there has been an enormous amount of activity in the study of analogy and metaphor.

This book grew out of a graduate student paper [261] in which I set down some criticisms of J.

This publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chroni- cles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Con- temporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Kli- bansky.

At opposite ends of over two millenia Hegel and Aristotle, virtually alone of the great European thinkers, consciously attempted to criticize and develop the thought of their predecessors into systems of their own.

This essay attempts to demonstrate the significance of the principle of activity in the philosophy of Karl Marx.

Limborch's edition and Popple's translation, as on whether it is true that Popple translated the Epistola into English 'a l'insu de Mr Locke', and consequently whether Locke was right or wrong in saying that the translation was made 'without my privity'.

The idea of the present study is basically a simple one.

As its title indicates, this book is concerned with two different fields of philosophy, ethics and epistemology.

Franz Brentano 1 was an important philosopher, but for a long time his importance was under-estimated.

T is said that there is no progress in philosophy.

This work is the product of several years of intense study of the various aspects of Kant's work, and the attempt to provide insights for students both with respect to the details of the Kantian system, and into the development and implications of the system as a whole.

The societal web of life is underpinned by one concept - that of Self and Other - which emerged earlier in this century.

Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems.

In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life?

Mental Symbols is an essay on mind and meaning, on the biological implementation of mental symbols, on the architecture of mind, and on the correct construal of logical properties and relations of symbols, including implication and inference.

The splendid achievements of Japanese mathematics and natural sciences during the second half of our 20th century have been a revival, a Renaissance, of the practical sciences developed along with the turn toward Western thinking in the late 19th century.

Mind Out of Matter aims to transform the way we think about consciousness and the physical world.

There is an interesting and far-reaching disagreement between Smith and Frederick Stoutland.