Philosophy of mind

Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life.

This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.

This pivot focuses on "e;the concept of edification"e; in a bid to systematically expound its connotative structure and logical evolution.

This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt to construct identities and expand their consciousness manifestations.

This book defends a novel view of mental representation-of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being.

This book explores the transition from the mind to the Supermind within the scope of an evolutionary metaphysics.

This book brings together a wide range of innovative reflections on the pivotal role that Davidson's concept of agency plays in his later philosophy and its impact on his epistemology, his philosophy of language and mind, and his philosophy of values.

The book discusses how we can cross-fertilize relationship between roots and routes with and beyond the logic of closure, monological assertions and violence.

This book pioneers evidence-based research on healthy aging through the application of self determination theory (SDT).

This book adopts an approach based on relational psychoanalysis, developed in the USA in and since the 1990s and guided by the self-psychology championed by Kohut and the Post-Kohutians.

This book contextualises philosophy by bringing Judith Butler's critique of identity into dialogue with an analysis of the transgressive self in dramatic literature.

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?

This volume is the outcome of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Time, Action and Cognition.

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.

Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach presents a synthesis of viewpoints and data on linguistic, psychological, anatomical and behavioral studies on living species of Primates and provides a comparative framework for the evaluation of paleoanthropological studies.

This book is not written for posterity.