Philosophy of mind

In The Foundations of Mind, Jean Mandler presents a new theory of cognitive development in infancy, focusing on the processes through which perceptual information is transformed into concepts.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

This volume brings together new essays that consider Wittgenstein's treatment of the phenomenon of aspect perception in relation to the broader idea of conceptual novelty; that is, the acquisition or creation of new concepts, and the application of an acquired understanding in unfamiliar or novel situations.

Analyses the accounts of moral obligation offered by Kant, Hegel and Kierkegaard, thereby challenging current histories of modern ethics.

Thomas Nagel is widely recognized as one of the top American philosophers working today.

This book explores the responsibility of psychological and neuropsychological perspectives in relation to the digitalisation of inter-subjectivity.

This volume explores interesting and emerging philosophical questions related to autism.

For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind.

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models.

For a long time, commentators viewed Sartre as one of Kant's significant twentieth-century critics.

The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective.

This collection of essays on the philosophy of love, by leading contributors to the discussion, places particular emphasis on the relation between love, its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic partners, persons, ourselves, strangers, non-human animals and art.

Evidence and Agency is concerned with the question of how, as agents, we should take evidence into account when thinking about our future actions.

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame.

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.

In A Theory of Environmental Leadership, Mark Manolopoulos draws on his original model of leading outlined in his cutting-edge book Following Reason to derive and develop the first properly systematic model of eco-leadership.

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint products of brain, body, and environment.

In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B.

David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths.

This highly original book explores the idea and potential of psychology in the context of ethical theory, and the idea of ethics in the context of psychology.

In Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction, Bret Alderman puts forth a compelling thesis: Deconstruction tells a mythic story.

When ordinary people--mathematicians among them--take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason.

This long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Michael Smith''s essays.

This volume seeks to add a unique perspective on the complex relationship between psychology and politics, focusing on three analytical points of view: 1) psychology, politics, and complex thought,  2) bio/psycho/social factors of masculinity and power, and 3) underlying factors in political behavior.

What is it about art that can be so captivating?

Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts?

Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing.

This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion.

Emotions play an important role in both sport and games, from the pride and joy of victory, the misery and shame of defeat, and the anger and anxiety felt along the way.

A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein's thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote addition to the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series.

Scientific realism is a central, long-standing, and hotly debated topic in philosophy of science.

The issue of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated, and it continues to be controversial today.

An authoritative, up-to-date survey of the state of the art in cognitive science, written for non-specialists.

The past few years have witnessed an exponentially growing body of work conducted under the 'second person' heading.

Can you be a self on your own or only together with others?

This book examines the evidential status and use of linguistic intuitions, a topic that has seen increased interest in recent years.

This book, first published in 1969, examines the 'philosophies of existence' or Existentialism and the field's leading philosophers.

Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality.

This book examines phenomenal conservatism, one of the most influential and promising internalist conceptions of non-inferential justification debated in current epistemology and philosophy of mind.

This book considers Wilfrid Sellars' engagement with Kantian philosophy-both theoretical and practical-in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy.

A novel, wide-ranging, and comprehensive account of how human emotionality develops, proposing a process in which “nature” and “nurture” are integrated.

This book explores and defends the view that inequality is intrinsically bad when and because it leads to arbitrary disadvantage.

This collection of brief essays and still briefer commentaries is a personal reflection on some topics that have been thematic in the development of my theoretical work.

Based on the author's forty years of experience in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences, How to Rethink Psychology argues that to understand people we need to know more about their contexts than the dominant modes of thinking and research presently allow.

If man has no nature - if our intellect and understanding are products of our own activities - do we possess a key to self-modification?

This book argues that existentialism's concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism.

How do great athletes defy the power law of practice, according to which improvements in skill eventually plateau?

This book addresses a growing concern as to why Psychology, now more than a hundred years after becoming an independent research area, does not yet meet the basic requirements of a scientific discipline on a par with other sciences such as physics and biology.

Yo a yo reúne una serie de ensayos sobre identidad personal, autonomía y emociones morales, entre otros temas escritos por el eminente filósofo J.

Four major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy.