Philosophy of mind

It is one thing to understand theoretically how we build our reality (Part 1 of the trilogy), but something very different to step out of "e;consensus reality,"e; stop the world and enter a completely different one.

Interoception is the body-to-brain axis of sensations that originates from the internal body and visceral organs.

The topic of this book is the relationship between mind and the physical world.

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger's philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian metapsychology.

During the last three decades, there have been enormous advances in our understanding of the neural mechanisms of selective attention at the network as well as the cellular level.

This book provides the Latin text and its annotated English translation of the question-commentary of John Buridan (ca.

Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems.

New Directions in Consciousness Studies describes a range of fresh ideas which promise to significantly advance scientific understanding of human nature.

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge.

Die Handlungen dieses Buches, sind die Gefühle und Worte, meines pubertierenden Bewusstseins.

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively.

From the invention of the alphabet to the explosion of the internet, Dominic Wyse takes us on a unique journey into the process of writing.

What is it about art that can be so captivating?

This book explores psychological theories around the ways in which people present themselves online.

A radically revised and updated account of Noam Chomsky''s thought and its revolutionary impact on linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics.

What is the meaning of time?

The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness.

Karl Jaspers, who died in 1969, had a profound impact on 20th-century theology and philosophy.

This volume provides the first comprehensive evaluation of ''sentimentalism'' - one of the most dominant moral theories in philosophy today.

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China.

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kant's philosophy.

This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence.

By offering a critical assessment of the evolution of standard game theory, this book argues for a shift in the ontology and methodology of game theory for appraising games, one based on understanding the players' strategic reasoning process.

This highly readable translation of the major works of the 18th- century philosopher Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac, a disciple of Locke and a contemporary of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, shows his influence on psychiatric diagnosis as well as on the education of the deaf, the retarded, and the preschool child.

This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.

In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and arguments on the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundbreaking 1996 book, The Conscious Mind.

El indispensable exceso de la estética aborda, por primera vez en esta disciplina, la evolución de la sensibilidad desde sus manifestaciones primigenias.

This book analyses Muslim-origin immigrant communities in Europe, and the problematic nature of their labelling by both their home and host countries.

Is torturing the innocent OK?

This book presents a novel interpretation of Hume as a proponent of sentimental virtue ethics.

Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion.

Persons and Minds is an inquiry into the possibilities of materialism.

An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don''t so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations.

The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions.

As the eleventh volume in the New Directions in Cognitive Science series (formerly the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series), this work promises superb scholarship and interdisciplinary appeal.

This book focuses on ageing as a topic of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology.

The problem of skepticism about knowledge of the external world has been the centrepiece of epistemology since Descartes.

This scholarly book explores the intersection of social cognition with a democratic philosophy of human resource management to advance a theory of workplace function that maximizes creativity.

This volume is a critical edition of the 1587 treatise by Oliva Sabuco, New Philosophy of Human Nature, written during the Spanish Inquisition.

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

Originally published in 1985.

Sense perception is one of the classical themes in philosophy.

This innovative new reading of Aristotle''s De Anima sheds new light on a most important and difficult ancient philosophical text.

This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions.

This book grew out of a graduate student paper [261] in which I set down some criticisms of J.

This book offers an analysis of experimental psychology that is embedded in a general understanding of human behavior.

Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956.