This volume explores the essential issues involved in bringing phenomenology together with the cognitive sciences, and provides some examples of research located at the intersection of these disciplines.
Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology.
Individual Differences in Conscious Experience is intended for readers with philosophical, psychological, or clinical interests in subjective experience.
This interdisciplinary work addresses the question, What role should psychological conceptualization play for thinkers who believe that the brain is the organ of the mind?
Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida.
To understand a cat: methodology and philosophy rests on the realization that the everyday behavior of a cat (but other animals too) should be understood through a new approach, namely methodological dualism.
Combining phenomenological insights from Brentano and Sartre, but also drawing on recent work on consciousness by analytic philosophers, this book defends the view that conscious states are reflexive, and necessarily so, i.
The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness.
This book provides a thoroughly worked out and systematic presentation of an interpretivist position in the philosophy of mind, of the view that having mental properties is a matter of interpretation.
Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy.
Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based.
This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts.
Il transumanismo è un movimento filosofico e culturale internazionale che vuole che l'uomo prenda in mano la propria evoluzione biologica tramite l'uso della tecnologia.
Fino a che punto l’uomo, grazie alla scienza e alla tecnologia, può migliorare se stesso, allungandosi la vita e potenziando le proprie funzioni fisiche e mentali?
The new edition of this bestselling book, The Psychology of Meaning in Life, has been thoroughly updated to offer an inspiring exploration of cutting-edge findings from the psychology of meaning in life.
En los textos que presentamos, Matthew Lipman propone el cultivo de la razonabilidad como camino para educar la capacidad de pensar de manera crítica, creativa y cuidadosa.
El mensaje que Jiddu Krishnamurti transmitió a lo largo de su vida, a través de las numerosas charlas que ofreció en todo el mundo, es tan simple como revelador: cada cual debe encontrar por sí mismo la raíz de su propia libertad.
"Trapisondas de un filósofo insolente" (segunda edición) es la autobiografía ficticia de un filósofo ocurrente y socarrón que se nos muestra como un niño apocado y vergonzoso, primero; como un muchacho que huye de su casa y vive aventuras singulares, después; como universitario que alterna con compañeros juerguistas y mujeriegos, a continuación y, por último, dando forma al filósofo mundano y advertido que ya es y así poder salpimentar todo el relato de un conjunto de peculiares ideas propias que, con mordacidad, dotan a la novela de un gran poder de concitación y la hacen apta también para lectores exigentes que buscan nuevos caminos para el pensamiento.
"Zen - l'art de vivre consciemment - instructions pour une attitude de vie moderne et épanouie"Bienvenue dans un monde de pleine conscience et d'harmonie intérieure.
Las cuestiones acerca del libre albedrío, la conciencia y la libertad de acción humana han sido tema de debate entre teólogos, filósofos y científicos durante mucho tiempo.
¿Sería usted capaz de resumir sus experiencias espirituales, sus lecturas al respecto, sus conclusiones sobre la muerte y sobre nuestro lugar en el mundo?
