Philosophy of mind

This book explores the concept of certainty, a term which is widely used in everyday language to designate a psychological experience or feeling but is rarely considered controversial or politically charged.

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

Drawing connections between madness, philosophy and autobiography, this book addresses the question of how Nietzsche's madness might have affected his later works.

This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Kantian principle that 'objects conform to our cognition' from the perspective of a Copernican world-view which stands diametrically opposed to Kant's because founded on the principle that our cognition conforms to objects.

This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book.

This book explores how Wittgenstein's personal life provided more of a reference point for his philosophical work than has been previously thought.

This book represents an outstanding contribution to the field of somatic psychology.

This book critically examines and theorizes the process of how return migrants reintegrate into their countries of origin.

This book contains a series of essays that explore the concept of unconsciousness as it is situated between phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

The letters transcribed in this book were written by physicist David Bohm to three close female acquaintances in the period 1950 to 1956.

This book analyzes Western and Chinese philosophical texts to determine why laughter and the comic have not been a major part of philosophical discourse.

Understanding the relationship between human cultural psychology and the evolutionary ecology of living systems is currently limited by abstract perceptions of space and boundaries as sources of definitive discontinuity.

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved.

This book examines the fourth wave of feminism within the United Kingdom.

This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of 'human being'.

This volume offers an introduction to consciousness research within philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on the history of ideas and core concepts.

This book describes a novel methodology for studying algorithmic skills, intended as cognitive activities related to rule-based symbolic transformation, and argues that some human computational abilities may be interpreted and analyzed as genuine examples of extended cognition.

This volume features essays that explore the insights of the 14th-century Parisian nominalist philosopher, John Buridan.

This book tackles the challenging question which mathematical formalisms and possibly new physical notions should be developed for quantitatively describing human cognition and behavior, in addition to the ones already developed in the physical and cognitive sciences.

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

This volume answers the question: Why do we believe what we believe?

This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity.

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions.

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R.

This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence.

This volume examines Otto Friedrich Bollnow's philosophical approach to education, which brought Heidegger's existentialism together with other theories of what it is to be "e;human.

This volume expands the concept and role of the schema, with three goals in mind:  1) to outline the continuing issues in the schema concept as the legacy of Kant's concept and analysis, 2) to show that Kant's challenges resulted in successful but truncated views of the schema and its functions, 3) to reconstruct Otto Selz's schema concept by proposing an alternative.

This book will help the reader to understand the suicidal mind from a phenomenological point of view, shedding light on the feelings of suicidal individuals and also those of clinicians.

This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term 'femminicidio', or 'femicide', entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election.

This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora.

This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan's controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important.

This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of 'perversion', which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years.

This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.

In this book, Dennis Schulting presents a staunch defence of Kant's radical subjectivism about the possibility of knowledge.

This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant.

This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for aesthetic understanding.

This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming.

This volume considers the numerous philosophical ideas and arguments found in and inspired by the critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad.

The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski's philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates.

In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and analyzes the relationship between philosophy and film.

This book examines the dependence of transhumanist arguments on the credibility of the narratives of meaning in which they are embedded.

"e;According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone.

This book investigates the emerging phenomenon of the self as it exists in the online world.

This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies.

Understanding emotions is becoming ever more valuable in design, both in terms of what people prefer as well as in relation to how they behave in relation to it.

This Brief provides an in-depth discussion of five major points of intersection between philosophy and cultural psychology.

This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship.

This book presents an engaging account of a provocative new theory which explores how our brain generates conscious experience and where this occurs.