Philosophy of mind

What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain?

If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin?

This book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science.

Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to offer students the full breadth of philosophical issues that are raised by the end of life.

This volume focuses on philosophical problems concerning sense perception in the history of philosophy.

Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and yet misunderstood philosophers of the Twentieth Century.

Professor Brown in this volume discusses one of the most difficult questions in metaphysics, “what is action?

This Element discusses Wittgenstein''s use of the term ''criteria'' and the post-Wittgensteinian debate.

This book presents consciousness models from Eastern and Western perspectives that accommodate current scientific research in the natural sciences and humanities, from neurological experiments through philosophical enquiries to spiritual approaches.

Breaking new ground in the debate about the relation of mind and body, David Armstrong's classic text - first published in 1968 - remains the most compelling and comprehensive statement of the view that the mind is material or physical.

This book highlights the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings on psychology and psychological phenomena for the historical development of contemporary psychology.

This book is a critical re-evaluation of Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology, in which a theory of egological complicity and self-deception informing his later better known theory of bad faith is developed.

According to epiphenomenalism, our behavior is caused by events in our brains that also cause our mentality.

Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined.

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking').

How do brains make minds?

This book reconceives virtue epistemology in light of the conviction that we are essentially social creatures.

Since the 1980s, MRI scanners have told us much about brain function and played an important role in the clinical diagnosis of a number of conditions - both in the brain and the rest of the body.

Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions provides an account of how we might effectively address wrongdoing given challenges to the legitimacy of anger and retribution that arise from ethical considerations and from concerns about free will.

This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabriel's version of New Realism, which spans the fields of metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and meta-philosophy.

In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem.

There are myriad questions that emerge when one considers emotions and decision-making: What produces emotions?

The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature.

Bruce McConachie explores the biocultural basis of performance, from the cognitive processes that facilitate it, to what keeps us engaged.

What is the relationship between consciousness and our brain?

Should you care less about your distant future?

The first book-length comparative study of Wittgenstein''s and Davidson''s philosophies, exploring their similarities and demonstrating their continuing relevance to modern debates.

T is said that there is no progress in philosophy.

This book seeks to set humanism on a new footing.

Jennifer Radden here provides a re-interpretation of the classic text by 17th century scholar Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy.

An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with the self and proposes a solution-the Multitudinous Self Model (MuSe).

Men's biological clocks may not be ticking loudly, but what about the social clock?

It is commonly held that the experiences involved in cases of perception, illusion and hallucination all have the same nature.

Art and Belief presents twelve new essays at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art, particularly to do with the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art.

In this work, Kathleen V.

The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy.

The clinician needs to make sense of many client experiences in the course of daily practice: do these experiences reflect the simple product of complex neurochemical activity, or do they represent another dynamic involving the subjective self?

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the methods and variety of Kelvin probe force microscopy, including technical details.

Debates current in the philosophy of mind regarding the gathering and processing of information, and the nature of perception and representation, also animated some of the most important figures in early modern philosophy, among them Descartes, Hume, and Berkeley.

This book examines cognition with a broad and comprehensive approach.

Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy.

In this third edition of The Triadic Structure of the Mind, Francesco Belfiore begins from the basic ontological conception of the structure and functioning of the "e;mind"e; or "e;spirit"e; as an evolving, conscious triad composed of intellect, sensitiveness, and power, each exerting a selfish and a moral activity.

Experiences of Depression is a philosophical exploration of what it is like to be depressed.

This collection features 26 new essays on character from first-rate scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law.