Philosophy of mind

The Nature of the Mind is a comprehensive and lucid introduction to major themes in the philosophy of mind.

When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: 'Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?

Francois Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought.

Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'.

This book sheds new light on the interconnections between identity, gender and geographical displacement.

Epistemological theories of knowledge and justification draw a crucial distinction between one's simply having good reasons for some belief and one's actually basing one's belief on good reasons.

Artificial Psychology (AP) is a highly multidisciplinary field of study in psychology.

Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy explores how and why Freud's late work on fetishism led to the beginnings of a re-formulation of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love, intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society.

Some critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation.

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.

Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries.

How can one think about a thing, think something false about it, and still be thinking about that thing at all?

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.

Does free will exist?

This Routledge Revival reissues Oliver Letwin's philosophical treatise: Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, first published in 1987, which concerns the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine.

A scholar of both spirituality and science proposes a radical approach to studying the mind with the goal of restoring human nature—and transcending it.

For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has addressed an astonishing range of issues in the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, cognitive science, and the philosophical study of mind.

Borders are essentially imaginary structures, but their effects are very real.

Philosophy of mind has been one of the most active fields in philosophy for the past three decades.

Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and thinking.

Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the necessary effects of causal processes, and the question of whether our actions are free, and such that we can be held responsible for them, even if they are the necessary effects of casual processes.

This book seeks to generate a theoretical and a reflective framework to re-connect people with culture and spirituality.

Volume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE-200 BCE), defined as the Axial Age by German-Swiss psychiatrist Karl Jaspers.

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

People in Germany have an indifferent to poor relationship with our society.

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist.

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What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human?

The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy.

This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions.

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason.

Fundamentals of Cognitive Science draws on research from psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, linguistics, evolution, and neuroscience to provide an engaging and student-friendly introduction to this interdisciplinary field.

Most of us experience the world through competing perspectives.

Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them.

Suffering is a central component of our lives.

Psychische Erkrankungen stellen den Bereich der Medizin dar, dem man sich nicht nur aus naturwissenschaftlicher, sondern gleichermaßen auch aus geisteswissenschaftlicher, insbesondere phänomenologischer und philosophisch-anthropologischer Sicht annähern kann - so auch den "klassischen", d.

This book introduces concepts in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy.

Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal studies, ecocriticism, digital media, and life narrative.

John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis.

Rationality has long been a central topic in philosophy, crossing standard divisions and categories.

The problem of free will is one of the great perennial issues of philosophy and has been discussed and debated over many centuries.

This book emphasizes the rising need for people to have a basic understanding of science and technology and the emphatic role they can play in shaping the AI-driven future, especially in terms of creating sustainable societies with growing job opportunities.

This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions-one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems.

Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individually.

It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society.

Providing a novel interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophical method, Nietzsche, Truth and Transformation addresses the philosophical problem of on what basis, if knowledge is always from a perspective, one can criticise modern humanity and culture, and how such critique can be actively responded to.