Philosophy of mind

This book examines the phenomenon of silence in relation to human behaviour from multiple perspectives, drawing on psychological and cultural-philosophical ideas to create new, surprising connections between silence, quiet and rest.

This wide-ranging and ground-breaking book, especially relevant given Brexit and renewed Scottish independence campaigning, provides in-depth analysis of ways Scottishness has been performed and modified over the centuries.

The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology.

This book offers a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes.

One of the most important research programmes in contemporary cognitive science is that of extended cognition, whereby features of a subject's cognitive environment can in certain conditions become constituent parts of the cognitive process itself.

The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental disorders.

This book will examine at individuals who control, intimate, and manipulate in work, home, family, and social environments, using robust Psychological theory to comprehend and successfully tackle those who exhibit these behaviours.

Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy critically rethinks and extends Hegel's project for systematic philosophy without foundations, engaging the most important contemporary debates concerning logic, epistemology, metaphysics, nature, mind, economic justice, political freedom, globalization, and literary theory.

Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them.

This book mathematically analyzes the basic problems of biology, decision making and psychology within the framework of the theory of open quantum systems.

Krzysztof Poslajko offers a novel version of an anti-realist view about beliefs, rejecting the extreme proposal of eliminativism that beliefs do not exist.

Creativity matters.

This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts.

Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions provides an account of how we might effectively address wrongdoing given challenges to the legitimacy of anger and retribution that arise from ethical considerations and from concerns about free will.

This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives.

As introduced by Shakti Gawain to more than seven million readers worldwide, creative visualization is the art of using mental imagery and affirmation to produce positive changes in your life.

Annie Reiner's introduction to Wilfred Bion's theories of mind presents Bion's intricate ideas in an accessible, original way without compromising their complexity.

This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation.

This book contributes to the developing dialogue between cognitive science and social sciences.

History of Cognitive Neuroscience documents the major neuroscientific experiments and theories over the last century and a half in the domain of cognitive neuroscience, and evaluates the cogency of the conclusions that have been drawn from them.

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

Rationality requires that we intend the means that we believe are necessary for achieving our ends.

John McDowell's philosophical ideas are both influential and comprehensive, encompassing philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics and the history of philosophy.

The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is the first collective critical study of this important period in intellectual history.

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.

These essays on food and philosophy were written over several decades.

A rigorous analysis of current empirical and theoretical work supporting the argument that consciousness and attention are largely dissociated.

Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences.

Re-examines our relationship to the modern world by providing new perspectives on the influence of medieval, Jewish, and Christian theologies.

The connection of the brain to the mind remains one of the most persistent mysteries in philosophy and neuroscience.

This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics.

Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental.

Methodological Issues in Psychology is a comprehensive text that challenges current practice in the discipline and provides solutions that are more useful in contemporary research, both basic and applied.

What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment?

Gehirne unter Spannung 

Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung verändert unsere Kommunikation, unsere Bildung, unser Sozialleben, nicht zuletzt unsere Wahrnehmung von uns selbst.

The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical criticism.

How do you know your own thoughts and feelings?

We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess.

The past 20 years have seen unparalleled advances in neurobiology, with findings from neuroscience being used to shed light on a range of human activities - many historically the province of those in the humanities and social sciences - aesthetics, emotion, consciousness, music.

This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions.

"e;A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words.

Experience and Possibility concerns the modal ontology of experience.

This book explores the relationship between schizophrenia and common sense.

This book, first published in 1965, is a critical exposition of the philosophical doctrines of Jean-Paul Sartre.

The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristotelian philosopher, Christian and former Marxist, Alasdair MacIntyre is ideally placed to bring about a transformation of psychiatry from its current captivity to the modern scientific technical paradigm.

Self and identity have been important yet volatile notions in psychology since its formative years as a scientific discipline.

This timely and thought-provoking collection explores the ways in which psychological science interacts with and addresses gender across varied subdisciplines in the field, from a feminist viewpoint.