Philosophy of mind

The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs.

This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence.

The present book is the product of conferences held in Bielefeld at the Center for interdisciplinary Sturlies (ZiF) in connection with a year-long ZiF Research Group with the theme "e;Prerational intelligence"e;.

Notions of the sublime are most often associated with the extraordinary, and include the intra-psychic, high-cultural and exceptional occurrences of elation and exaltation as part of the experience.

Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection.

There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs.

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research.

The idea that plants have minds can sound improbable, but some widely respected contemporary scientists and philosophers find it plausible.

Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents?

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics.

Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for the view that the mind is physical.

This book provides a phenomenological analysis of envy.

First published in 2004.

Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems in philosophy.

Looking at a variety of countries, this book explores the influence of cultural dimensions on the interrelations between personal and social identity, and the impact of identity salience on attitudes, stereotypes, and the structures of consciousness.

This book is Jon Elster''s influential study of irrationality, challenging orthodox theories of rational choice.

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There is abundant evidence that most people, often in spite of their conscious beliefs, values and attitudes, have implicit biases.

The emotions we experience are crucial to who we are, to what we think, and to what we do.

This book is the first monograph in English exclusively dedicated to the exegesis of Martin Heidegger's radical conception of freedom which was developed in response to the human experience of existential guilt and mortality explained through the phenomena of transcendence and truth.

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This book expounds values which the author styles 'patrician'.

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought.

This book is a guide to critical reflective practice that highlights cultural differences and their impact on the therapeutic relationship.

This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts.

This book examines the origins, presence, and implications of scientistic thinking in psychology.

What holds together the various fields that are supposed to consititute the general intellectual discipline that people now call cognitive science?

How to live well and the search for meaning have long been of intense concern to humans, perhaps because Homo sapiens is the only species aware of its own mortality.

This volume examines two main questions: What is linguistics about?

Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.

From the author of Think, an enlightening and entertaining exploration of narcissism and self-esteemEveryone deplores narcissism, especially in others.

Dale Goldhaber reframes the nature-nurture debates, providing fresh insight into old and persistent questions of human behavior and development.

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality - bridging physiological experience and consciousness.

Cognitive Evolution provides an in-depth exploration of the natural history of cognition, from the beginning of life on Earth to present-day humans.

From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial or temporal parts of organisms, bundles of perceptions, or what have you.

The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques.

How is it possible to think new thoughts?

Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference.

The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy.

In this book, renowned philosopher John Kekes develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude--one that can guide how we face adversities and evaluate the often conflicting possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we live.

This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L.

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

Search Without Idols is a study of human transcendence in the context of human striving, projecting, surpassing, overcoming.

This book addresses the paradox that, despite quantifiable advances, people often struggle to experience positive wellbeing.

Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy is an authoritative text addressing both academicians and students, and it proposes an integrated and holistic view of scientific study and presents a new paradigm by which to study philosophy.

A tightly argued and expansive examination of the pitfalls of transhumanism that reacquaints us with what it means to live well.