Philosophy of mind

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination.

This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism.

This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the philosophy and theory of history.

This book explores how Wittgenstein's personal life provided more of a reference point for his philosophical work than has been previously thought.

What is consciousness?

The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes believed, a "e;machine made up of flesh and bones.

Dieter Henrich (*1927) ist neben Jürgen Habermas und Ernst Tugendhat die bedeutendste Stimme der deutschen Nachkriegsphilosophie.

This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein's broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection.

A Materialist Theory of Mind (1968) by David Armstrong is one of a handful of texts that began the physicalist revolution in the philosophy of mind.

In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought.

This book is an attempt to make sense of the tension in Nietzsche's work between the unashamedly egocentric and the apparently mystical.

This account of children''s learning to ascribe understanding to themselves and others may help to explain children''s theory of mind.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.

This book proposes that Spanish author Luis Martin-Santos' work focuses on the effects of patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity on men, to actively contribute to freeing both men and women from the yoke of patriarchy.

A novel, wide-ranging, and comprehensive account of how human emotionality develops, proposing a process in which “nature” and “nurture” are integrated.

Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines.

By offering a critical assessment of the evolution of standard game theory, this book argues for a shift in the ontology and methodology of game theory for appraising games, one based on understanding the players' strategic reasoning process.

Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species examines how Western culture has understood and continues to understand what it is to be human.

"e;Mental Immunity is the perfect vaccine for the mind-viruses infecting our culture: alternative facts, fake news, and conspiracy thinking, to name a few.

Advancing our understanding of one of the most influential 20th-century philosophers, Robert Vinten brings together an international line up of scholars to consider the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas to the cognitive science of religion.

This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and philosophy of mind.

Francois Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language.

This book explores how dementia acts as an existential threat, both to people diagnosed with the condition, and to their carers.

The volume offers a lively and wide-ranging debate on the major questions of perceptual epistemology, including how perceptual experiences can bestow positive epistemic standing to empirical judgments and beliefs; the relative epistemic import of veridical and non-veridical perceptual experiences; the relation between experience and knowledge; and the nature of experience in view of its epistemic linkages to discursive contents.

Da das Gehirn naturkausal determiniert ist, ist der Mensch in seinen Handlungen nicht frei.

Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany showcases the vibrant and diverse contributions on the part of women in eighteenth-century Germany and explores their under-appreciated influence upon philosophical debate in Germany in this period.

This volume explores how the principles and values of pragmatic philosophy serve as orienting perspectives for critical thinking in contemporary psychotherapy and clinical practice.

This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages.

This second edition discusses advances in Chomsky''s science of language, his view of the human mind and its study, and his socioeconomic-political contributions.

The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term.

What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents?

Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology.

Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world.

This volume addresses key questions related to how content in thought is derived from perceptual experience.

Difference, Dialogue, and Development is an in-depth exploration of the collected works of Mikhail Bakhtin to find relevance of key concepts of dialogism for understanding various aspects of human development.

According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas.

Counterfactual thinking has become an established method to evaluate decisions in a range of disciplines, including history, psychology and literature.

Alice James: an exemplary nineteenth-century neurasthenic and diarist.

While there may be no one single characteristic that differentiates humans as a species, it is the combination of differences from other species that makes us unique.

In this 2002 book, Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind and brain.

This book examines aspects of Western psychological and educational theory in relation to educational practice around the world, and considers the extent to which current understandings are truly applicable to a range of diverse settings.

The essays in this volume discuss Putnam''s major philosophical contributions.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

Mental Wellbeing and Psychology unpacks the philosophical and psychological need to understand ourselves through an exploration of historical archives and artistic creativity.

This book depicts how Freud's cocaine and Benjamin's hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse.

Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down.