Philosophy of mind

This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence.

This volume examines Otto Friedrich Bollnow's philosophical approach to education, which brought Heidegger's existentialism together with other theories of what it is to be "e;human.

This volume expands the concept and role of the schema, with three goals in mind:  1) to outline the continuing issues in the schema concept as the legacy of Kant's concept and analysis, 2) to show that Kant's challenges resulted in successful but truncated views of the schema and its functions, 3) to reconstruct Otto Selz's schema concept by proposing an alternative.

This book will help the reader to understand the suicidal mind from a phenomenological point of view, shedding light on the feelings of suicidal individuals and also those of clinicians.

This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term 'femminicidio', or 'femicide', entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election.

This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora.

This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan's controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important.

This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of 'perversion', which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years.

This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.

In this book, Dennis Schulting presents a staunch defence of Kant's radical subjectivism about the possibility of knowledge.

This book gives the reader an understanding of what consciousness is about, and of how to make conscious experiences more pleasant.

This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for aesthetic understanding.

This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming.

This volume considers the numerous philosophical ideas and arguments found in and inspired by the critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad.

The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski's philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates.

In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and analyzes the relationship between philosophy and film.

This book examines the dependence of transhumanist arguments on the credibility of the narratives of meaning in which they are embedded.

"e;According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone.

This book investigates the emerging phenomenon of the self as it exists in the online world.

This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies.

Understanding emotions is becoming ever more valuable in design, both in terms of what people prefer as well as in relation to how they behave in relation to it.

This Brief provides an in-depth discussion of five major points of intersection between philosophy and cultural psychology.

This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship.

This book presents an engaging account of a provocative new theory which explores how our brain generates conscious experience and where this occurs.

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion.

This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur: Between Text and Phenomenon calls attention to the dynamic interaction that takes place between hermeneutics and phenomenology in Ricoeur's thought.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

This timely and thought-provoking collection explores the ways in which psychological science interacts with and addresses gender across varied subdisciplines in the field, from a feminist viewpoint.

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary theories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factors related to perception, i.

This book examines the concept of "e; Neurosemantics"e;, a term currently used in two different senses: the informational meaning of the physical processes in the neural circuits, and semantics in its classical sense, as the meaning of language, explained in terms of neural processes.

This book is a collection of studies on topics related to subjectivity and selfhood in medieval and early modern philosophy.

This book reassesses the seminal work of Wilhelm Wundt by discussing the history and philosophy of psychology.

This volume offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy.

This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective.

This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the "e;International Association for Computing and Philosophy"e; (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years.

This book challenges common debates in philosophy of mind by questioning the framework of placement problems in contemporary metaphysics.

This book is an edited collection of papers from international experts in philosophy and psychology concerned with time.

This book brings together a group of scholars from around the world who view psychology as the science of human ways of being.

This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable.

The author defends nonconceptualism, the claim that perceptual experience is nonconceptual and has nonconceptual content.

This book reassesses Gadamer's hermeneutics by bringing it into a dialogue with John McDowell's minimal empiricism.

This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication.

This book focuses on the very nature and function of intuitive thought.

What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical?

This book deals with foundational issues in Phenomenology as they arise in the smoldering but tense dispute between Husserl and Heidegger, which culminates in the late 1920s.

This book describes and analyzes the levels of experience that long-distance running produces.