Philosophy of mind

The past decades have seen a growing "e;philosophical"e; interest in a number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago's oeuvre has been left somewhat aside.

This unique reference surveys current theoretical and empirical advances in understanding individual differences in narcissistic personality, as well as the latest perspectives on controversies in the field.

This book approaches consumer psychology from a unique perspective - it covers the entire lifespan, from birth to old age.

This book examines how young people in Europe construct their political identities.

This book explores the quality of life among Badagas, an ethnic minority group in South India, as they navigate a society in flux, with specific reference to rural-to-urban migration and new media.

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one's action causing further consequences.

This book discusses outcomes of a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic, examining moral integrity in the post-communist Czech-speaking environment.

This book explores the psychosocial significance of loss and exclusion in the lives of many Iranian immigrants living in London since the Iranian revolution of 1979.

This book assesses the construction of masculinities in relation to appearance, embodiment and emotions by drawing on perspectives in psychology, sociology, gender studies and public health.

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle.

This book scrutinizes the practice of sailing and its relation to philosophy of mind.

This book offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind in Ancient Greece.

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy.

Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher.

This Brief introduces two empirically grounded models of situated mental phenomena: contextual social cognition (the collection of psychological processes underlying context-dependent social behavior) and action-language coupling (the integration of ongoing actions with movement-related verbal information).

This book is concerned with the human individual and her relationship with the communities of which she is a member.

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

When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values?

This book explores the perception, construction and performance of professional identities in initial teacher education (ITE).

It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world.

This book approaches work by Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou through their shared commitment to multiplicity, a novel approach to addressing one of the oldest philosophical questions: is being one or many?

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama.

What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs?

This book is about Italian American women, food, identity, and our stories at the table.

In an era when many young people feel marginalized and excluded, this is the first comprehensive, critical account to shed new light on the trouble of 'belonging' and how young people in schools understand, enact and experience 'belonging' (and non-belonging).

This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.

This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture.

This book explores the relationship between schizophrenia and common sense.

This edited volume highlights relevant issues and solutions for diversity groups within the workplace.

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity.

It is often thought that consciousness has a qualitative dimension that cannot be tracked by science.

This book is a succinct guide to Soren Kierkegaard's contribution to educational thought.

This second edition book provides an update to multicultural psychology and counseling research findings, and the DSM-5 in sociopolitical and cultural contexts.

These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton's work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time.

This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of individuality.

This book provides a new argument for the tensed theory of time and emergentism about the self.

Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987).

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.

This book is an anthology of Mark Edward's creative practice-led projects.

This engaging book examines the origins and first effects of the concept 'legal semiotics', focusing on the inventor of the term, Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998).

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.

This Brief brings together empirical accounts that contribute to the investigation of the cultural phenomena of deep personal experiences.

This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation.

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

Drawing on shared research experiences and collaborative projects, this book offers a broad and timely perspective on research on the hand and its current challenges.

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich's philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2) his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and (3) his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Humanity and his judgments on terrorism.

This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham.

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 explores a central question in the study of depth perception - 'does the visual system rely upon objective knowledge and subjective meaning to specify visual depth?

This book explores a range of psychosocial resources, and discusses them in relation to lived experiences and outcomes in educational and socioeconomic domains.