Philosophy of mind

This book is an introduction to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and its core concepts about the self, suffering and consciousness.

This book presents Freud''s theory of the mind as an organic whole, built from first principles and developing in sophistication over time.

Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges.

In his work on metaphysics, Spinoza associates reasons with causes or explanations.

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle.

In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation.

In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action.

Within the contemporary philosophical debates over the nature of perception, the question of whether perception has content in the first place recently has become a focus of discussion.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

Wittgenstein's Intentions, first published in 1993, presents a series of essays dedicated to the great Wittgenstein exegete John Hunter.

This book is an analysis and discussion of the soul as a psychophysical process and its role in mental representation, meaning, understanding and agency.

This book, first published in 1987, is an extended examination of Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy.

Many of the current debates about validity in psychiatry and psychology are predicated on the unexpected failure to validate commonly used diagnostic categories.

Although best known for experimental methods, social psychology also has a strong tradition of measurement.

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This book closely interrogates the construct of identity and the role it plays in career development.

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

This volume assembles supporters and critics of situated cognition research to evaluate the intricacies, prerequisites, possibilities, and scope of a 4E methodology.

This volume brings together philosophical perspectives on emotions, imagination and moral reasoning with contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, personality theory, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology.

The issue of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated, and it continues to be controversial today.

Combining Minds is about the idea of minds built up out of other minds, whether this is possible, and what it would mean if it were.

Presenting some modern views on the problem of the nature of mind and its relationship to the brain, this book, published in 1965, brings together contributors from various disciplines which are affected by this issue.

Martin Heidegger is one of the most important as well as one of the most difficult thinkers of the last century.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics.

In Ignes Fatui, Charles Thomas Taylor examines various misapprehensions and misconceptions that interfere with clear rational thought.

A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.

This idealist solution to the mind-body problem, which is compellingly integrated with quantum physics, affirms human free will and agency.

The first in a two-part set, this book takes a deep dive into the history and theory of existential psychology.

Colin Wilson revitalised existentialism with a completely new approach to the philosophy.

Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit.

One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind.

The nature of representation is a central topic in philosophy.

Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a complete revision of the theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

The monograph aims to present the recent scientific knowledge on body sensations, i.

This volume examines two main questions: What is linguistics about?

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

This book, first published in 1969, examines the 'philosophies of existence' or Existentialism and the field's leading philosophers.

This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language and mind, and a scholar of the history of analytical philosophy.

Levinas for Psychologists provides a rigorous, yet accessible, examination of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy and its implications for psychology and the human and social sciences.

Explaining consciousness is one of the last great unanswered scientific and philosophical problems.

Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character.

Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics organizes part of psychophysics -- a science of quantitative relationships between human sensations and the stimuli that evoke them.

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

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity.

What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)?

Certain representations are bound in a special way to our sensory capacities.