Philosophy of mind

This book explores humanising practice within higher education (HE).

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

This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author's journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented college students.

This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic - the nonhuman.

This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan.

This book highlights the lived experiences of gay Muslims in Malaysia, where Islam is the majority and official religion, and in Britain, where Muslims form a religious minority.

This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape.

This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism.

This edited volume offers cross-country and cross-cultural applications of Dialogical Self Theory within the field of education.

This book offers a penetrating analysis of issues raised by the perennial question, 'Are We Special?

This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia.

This Brief aims to provide a theoretically innovative introduction to the methodology of the human sciences.

The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively.

This volume offers an unprecedented account of recent and future developments in the sociology of intellectuals.

This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field.

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

This book argues against the mainstream view that we should treat propositional attitudes as internal states, suggesting that to treat beliefs as things of certain sort (i.

This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction.

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

This book examines the notion of identity through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches.

This book explains, in simple but accurate terms, how orthodox quantum mechanics works.

This book explores the philosophy of love through the thought and life of Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph.

This book brings Soren Kierkegaard's nineteenth-century existentialist project into our contemporary age, applying his understanding of "e;freedom"e; and "e;despair"e; to science and science studies, queer, decolonial and critical race theory, and disability studies.

This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die?

This book addresses the need for maturational growth in undergraduate and entry-level graduate students as a foundation for professional and civic development.

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.