Philosophy of mind

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping or sharing knowledge.

It is hard to interpret quantum mechanics.

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 seeks to examine the mutual interplay between existentialism and Christian belief as seen through the work of three existentialist thinkers who were also committed Christians - a Spaniard (Miguel de Unamuno), a Russian (Nikolai Berdyaev), and a Frenchman (Gabriel Marcel).

Part of a two-volume series, this book offers a multicentric perspective on the history of psychology, situating its development in relation to developments made in other social sciences and philosophical disciplines.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important contributions to philosophy of the twentieth century.

Do newborns think?

This book presents a novel metaphysics of concrete entities.

How does a visual artist manage to narrate a story, which has a sequential and therefore temporal progression, using a static medium consisting solely of spatial sign elements and, what is more, in a single image?

This book describes the role of eye contact in human communication by investigating the relationship between the eye gaze and the development of language and pragmatic skills.

Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)?

Can we learn without knowing we are learning?

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind's engagement with the world.

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 volume introduces the methodological value of hermeneutic dialogue in the field of theoretical and philosophical psychology.

This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes' Jr.

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

This set collects together a vital selection of works on Existentialism, including the key Introduction to the New Existentialism by Colin Wilson.

This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.

New Directions in Consciousness Studies describes a range of fresh ideas which promise to significantly advance scientific understanding of human nature.

Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with questions about knowledge and ontology.

'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.

Building on the thriving discussion on the role of attention within the phenomenological tradition, from Aron Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty to Bernhard Waldenfels, this book investigates the enigmatic role of attention as a faculty that enables change within subjective and intersubjective experience.

The present volume contains many of the papers presented at a four-day conference held by the Husserl-Archives in Leuven in April 2009 to c- memorate the one hundred and ?

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

This book addresses the need to radically transform societies plagued by racism.

Is sex identity a feature of one's mind or body, and is it a relational or intrinsic property?

The proper study of mankind is not merely Man, but Intelligence.

Though many of the ethical issues important in adult mental health are of relevance in the child, there are a considerable number of issues special to children.

According to epiphenomenalism, our behavior is caused by events in our brains that also cause our mentality.

This collection of essays engages with several topics in Aristotle's philosophy of mind, some well-known and hotly debated, some new and yet to be explored.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception.

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the construction of "e;digital ghosts"e;: algorithmic reconstructions of deceased individuals based on patterns of interaction in their text messages, social media posts, and other personal data.

In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition.

Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems in philosophy.

Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of rationality.

A new account of the formation of sexual identity, coined 'emerged fusion', which avoids the traps of the essentialism versus constructivism debate, and offers a viable third alternative.

The titling of this book - "e;Facing Reality"e; - came to me unbidden, presumably from my subconscious!

The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot's writings has rarely been in doubt.

What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives?

Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.

Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality.

This book aims to illuminate theoretical and methodological advances in computational cultural neuroscience and the implications of these advances for philosophy.

New Essays on Singular Thought presents ten new, specially written essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and perception: the nature of our thought about the external world.

The past decade has witnessed an exciting (and controversial) new approach to philosophy: Experimental philosophers aim to supplement, and perhaps to supplant, traditional philosophical approaches by employing empirical methods from the social sciences.

This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology.