Philosophy of mind

This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts.

What are phenomenal qualities, the qualities of conscious experiences?

When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it from a perspective.

Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987).

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theorising.

The relationship between intelligent systems and their environment is at the forefront of research in cognitive science.

In this new kind of entree to contemporary discussions of free will and human agency, Garrett Pendergraft collects and illuminates 50 of the most relevant puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments.

A philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational.

Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice, meaning, and the arts.

An introduction to the mind–body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.

Past scholars have tried to classify psychoanalysis as an intrinsically positivist science, with varying degrees of success.

Knowledge in an Uncertain World is an exploration of the relation between knowledge, reasons, and justification.

How close is spirituality to psychosis?

This companion to Lacan's Seminar VI guides readers through an examination of desire, fantasy, dream interpretation, death, object a, and the signifier of the lack in the Other as they are elaborated by Lacan.

This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities.

Winner of the 2022 NAAP Gradiva Award for Best Edited BookIn this volume, internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts, philosophers, and scholars of humanities examine the mind-body problem and provide differing analyses on the nature of mind, unconscious structure, mental properties, qualia, and the contours of consciousness.

Socially Extended Epistemology explores the epistemological ramifications of one of the most important research programmes in contemporary cognitive science: distributed cognition.

Metaphysics of Consciousness opens with a development of the physicalist outlook that denies the need for any explanation of the mental.

Our current intellectual system provides us with a far more complete and accurate understanding of nature and ourselves than was available in any previous society.

This is a Classic Edition of David Cohen's unique collection of interviews with eminent psychologists, first published in 1977.

First published in 2005.

A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.

'A truly awe-inspiring piece of writing' David Robson, author of The Intelligence TrapIn recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence have given us the necessary tools to solve its mystery.

Originally published in 1966.

A Naive Realist Theory of Colour defends the view that colours are mind-independent properties of things in the environment, that are distinct from properties identified by the physical sciences.

Could a single human being ever have multiple conscious minds?

This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia.

Jonardon Ganeri presents an account of mind in which attention, not self, explains the experiential and normative situatedness of human beings in the world.

Es gibt heute mindestens vier philosophische Schulen, die das Thema "Bewusstsein" behandeln: die nach wie vor lebendige Bewusstseinsphilosophie, die Phänomenologie, den Naturalismus und die Sprachphilosophie.

Could a single human being ever have multiple conscious minds?

The self, self-awareness and emotions are central subjects within contemporary philosophy of mind but comparatively little attention has been paid to the relationships between them.

The book is about living consciousness: private subjective experience, which conforms to the laws of magic.

*; Explores how we naturally project consciousness onto machines and how this is reflected in human culture, science, artificial intelligence, and literature *; Demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history *; Looks at the contributions and influence of Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, Philip K.

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research.

Featuring original essays from leading scholars in philosophy and psychology, this volume investigates and rethinks the role of practical wisdom in light of the most recent developments in virtue theory and moral, social and developmental psychology.

The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives.

Do people have free will, or this universal belief an illusion?

The author's aim of providing an understanding of the development, content and presentation of two aspects of Descartes' philosophy of the human soul - immortality and body-soul union - has been achieved and executed with rigour, scholarship and philosophical acuity.

Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon-and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noe explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.

In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language.

General Argument My aim is to survey some of the most influential philosophical writers on human nature from the time that Augustine codified Christian belief to the present.

This book works through some of the theoretical issues that have been accumulating in informal logic over the past 20 years.

O''Shaughnessy investigates bodily action in a new edition of this classic work of analytical philosophy.

The work reimagines emancipatory possibilities in the face of reified capitalist modernity.

One of his six introductions to philosophy, widely used by students in Alexandria, Ammonius' lecture on Porphyry was recorded in writing by his students in the commentary translated here.