Philosophy of mind

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle.

Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume and Kant.

This book offers a first glimpse into contemporary African Philosophical thought, which covers issues related to the mind-body relationships, the problem of consciousness, the ethics of artificial intelligence, the meaning of life and other topics.

Both through his own work and that of his students, Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917) had an often underappreciated influence on the course of twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy.

In this new kind of entree to contemporary discussions of free will and human agency, Garrett Pendergraft collects and illuminates 50 of the most relevant puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments.

A compelling, radical, ';richly explored' (The New York Times Book Review) and ';insightful' (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prizewinning novelist Siri Hustvedt, acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.

Wir wissen, wie es ist, Schmerzen zu haben, jemanden zu lieben oder Angst zu haben.

The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristotelian philosopher, Christian and former Marxist, Alasdair MacIntyre is ideally placed to bring about a transformation of psychiatry from its current captivity to the modern scientific technical paradigm.

Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition.

First published in 1989, this book tackles a relatively little-explored area of Wittgenstein's work, his philosophy of psychology, which played an important part in his late philosophy.

Barry Stroud presents nineteen of his philosophical essays written since 2001, on topics to do with knowing, seeing, and understanding.

Shows how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity, demonstrating that such apprehension can be fascinating and of fundamental importance.

Thoughts often cause deeds.

An examination of surgical breast reconstruction which establishes a strong link between, on the one hand, the personal feelings and actions of women with breast cancer, and on the other, powerful discourses and practices of the breast cancer movement.

A philosophical exploration of the relationships between spirituality, well-being, religion, and philosophy, examining specific spiritual practices and spiritually informed virtues.

This book, first published in 1965, is a critical exposition of the philosophical doctrines of Jean-Paul Sartre.

This book investigates dispositions in grammatical-normative terms through a contrast between a naturalized paradigm and a Wittgenstein-inspired perspective.

Anxiety looms large in historical works of philosophy and psychology.

A defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness.

Argues that ''flourishing'' means balancing one''s responsiveness to three normative claims: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability.

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens.

In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.

This study sees 'mediation' as a way of understanding the relationship between internal and external conversation, which underpins how individuals are connected to society.

How to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century-an introduction to the modern art of emotional intelligence.

Emotions mediate between the past, the present and the future, allowing ghosts to transcend the boundaries believed to divide times.

How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?

Donald Olding Hebb, referred to by American Psychologist as one of "e;the 20th century's most eminent and influential theorists in the realm of brain function and behavior,"e; contributes greatly to the understanding of mind and thought in Essays on Mind.

Experience and Possibility concerns the modal ontology of experience.

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 offers arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology, a view which Ratcliffe suggests is a theoretically motivated abstraction.

This volume critiques the increasingly reductive, objectifying, and technologized orientation in mainstream biomedicine.

Most of Colingwood's critics agree that his thought is plagued by radical discontinuities.

The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental disorders.

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

2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right.

This collection of new essays is a groundbreaking examination of divine hiddenness from the perspectives of different faiths.

This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience.

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 presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life.

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.

Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist, Manuel DeLanda, has created an entirely new theory of visual perception.

This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations.

Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis redresses faults in Freud's original conception to develop a coherent theoretical basis for psychodynamic theory.

Based on the revelation and analysis of the social self-consciousness contained in the individual self-consciousness of the meaning of life, the book discusses the human life-world, spiritual world, cultural world and meaning-world.

During the past decade, there has been considerable interest among philosophers in providing a philosophically satisfactory and helpful ana- lysis of a particular type of human behavior called action.