Philosophy of mind

This volume investigates crucial ways in which nature has been apprehended, understood and valued in different cultures and over time.

This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand.

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various political regimes in our species' history.

 The book is the first formulation of a meta-philosophical scheme rooted in the embodied cognition paradigm.

This book explores the idea that there is a certain performativity of thought connecting Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

This book takes a critical look at the role of language in an increasingly diversified and globalised world, using the new framework of 'sociolinguistics of globalisation' to draw together research from human geography, sociolinguistics, and intercultural communication.

Many people spend considerable time seeking a sense of purpose in life and, concomitant with that, a sense of personal identity.

This book provides an introduction to nineteen popular multiple intelligences.

This book is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory, who dedicated their lives to bearing witness and writing about the concentration camps, seeking, in particular, to give voice to those who did not return.

This monograph presents an interpretation of Descartes's dualism, which differs from the standard reading called 'classical separatist dualism' claiming that the mind can exist without the body.

This text presents and addresses the philosophical movement of antiphilosophy working thru the texts of Christian thinkers such as Pascal and Kierkegaard.

This book is an attempt to make sense of the tension in Nietzsche's work between the unashamedly egocentric and the apparently mystical.

This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse.

This edited book deepens the engagement between 21st century philosophy of mind and the emerging technologies which are transforming our environment.

New philosophical essays on love by a diverse group of international scholars.

This book examines what seems to be the basic challenge in neuroscience today: understanding how experience generated by the human brain is related to the physical world we live in.

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

This book, taking its point of departure from Stanley Cavell's claim that philosophy and autobiography are dimensions of each other, aims to explore some of the relations between these forms of reflection, first by seeking to develop an outline of a philosophy of autobiography, and then by exploring the issue from the side of five autobiographical works.

The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution.

This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suarez's comprehensive theory of sense perception.

The development of cognitive models is a key step in the challenging research program to advance our understanding of human cognition and behavior.

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small.

This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that 'Man was created in the image of God', transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that 'Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures', further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment's notion of human perfectibility.

Drawing upon data from an Australian study, this book gives voice to beginning teachers navigating their way through their first year of teaching and discovering what it means to be professional learners.

This edited book offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary studies within cognitive science.

This book explores how to help teachers become better advocates for sexual orientation equality in secondary schools.

This book explores a new way of applying clinical ethics.

This book shows how persecution is a condition that binds each in an ethical obligation to the other.

This book presents a theoretical critical appraisal of the Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition (MTHC), which is one of the most popular major theories in the contemporary field of cognitive science.

The monograph aims to present the recent scientific knowledge on body sensations, i.

Within the general framework of Cultural Psychology, this book provides different perspectives on the relationship between border and identity by experts from several disciplines (i.

This book presents a new structural approach to the psychology of the person, inspired by Kenneth Colby's computer-generated simulation, PARRY.

This book shows us how rather than abandoning psychology once he liberated phenomenology from the psychologism of the philosophy of arithmetic, Edmund Husserl remained concerned with the ways in which phenomenology held important implications for a radical reform of psychology throughout his intellectual career.

This book examines how a working-class habitus interacts with the elite culture of academia in higher education.

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

This text illuminates the relevance and importance of Heidegger's thought today.

This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea.

This book offers a new perspective on the motherhood experience.

This book explores curiosity from a normative epistemological viewpoint.

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

This book examines the concepts of subjectivity and selfhood developed in the oeuvre of Jean-Paul Sartre.

This book examines the theoretical links between Edward W.

This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions.

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

This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks.

Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme-philosophy as the art of living-and gives it a contemporary twist.

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as 'original existences': feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own.

This book explores the pedagogical possibilities of testimony and witnessing.

This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language.