Philosophy of mind

In recent decades there has been a shift in focus from psychological and social problems-what might be called the "e;dark side"e; of humanity-to human well-being and flourishing.

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

A Map of Selves defines a concept of selfhood, radically different from the Cartesian, neo-Humean, materialist and animalist concepts which now dominate analytical philosophy of mind.

This fascinating book explores the concept of slow living, offering a philosophical and psychological exploration of the need for a slower pace of life.

Over recent decades, pain has received increasing attention as philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists try to answer deep and difficult questions about it.

According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas.

Harry Smit examines the elements of current evolutionary theory and how they bear on the evolution of the human mind.

What lies at the foundation of our moral beliefs?

What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives?

George Berkeley's doctrine of notions is often disparaged or dismissed.

Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it.

The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty''s philosophy.

This innovative new volume analyses the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition.

Why care about intellectual humility?

Die Untersuchung der physikalischen Eigenschaften Organischer Festkörper, insbesondere solcher, deren Bausteine konjugierte p-Elektronen-Systeme enthalten, ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem aktiven und attraktiven Teilgebiet der Festkörperphysik geworden.

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance - and survive the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp.

The study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science, based on speculative topographic models and psychodynamics formulations.

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive volume on A.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics.

The Porosity of the Self provides an original interpretation and comprehensive examination of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl 1859-1938), the founder of phenomenology and one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 19th-20th century.

In recent times, the philosophy of science has been reinvigorated by insights from the biological and cognitive sciences.

Hilary Putnam is one of the world's leading philosophers.

Cognitive Science is a major new guide to the central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain.

How do minds make societies, and how do societies change?

This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett.

I: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REID Thomas Reid (1710-96) was born at Strachan in Kincardineshire, Scotland, not far from Aberdeen.

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This book bridges the regions of East Asia and the West by offering a detailed and critical inquiry of educational concepts of the East Asian tradition.

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 offers an uncompromising and unapologetic phenomenological study of altered states of consciousness in an attempt to understand the structure of human consciousness.

'Soul', 'self', 'substance' and 'person' are just four of the terms often used to refer to the human individual.

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

This book shows that the conflicts that arise from everyday ways of thinking are not dilemmas as they appear to be.

The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality.

The philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (c.

This book provides a detailed account of Julian Marias's metaphysical anthropology with the ultimate aim of offering a coherent and systematic analysis of Marias's argumentation for claiming that the conscious hope for Christian salvation through resurrection - and with it the hope that Jesus Christ did actually resurrect, and more generally the hope that Christian revelation is true - is justified not because the certainty or the likelihood that this salvation will, as a matter of fact, actually occur, but because this hope amounts to a self-affirming exercise, a conscious endorsement of human reality, and as such a sign of authenticity.

In the last three decades, the level of interaction between philosophy and psychology has increased dramatically.

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.

An accessible analysis of the relationship between folk psychology and contemporary scientific psychology.

Memories, sensory experiences, expectations, and intentions, as well as thoughts, fears, and hopes: all share a fundamental trait, the fact that our conscious psychological states take place in time, and often are about time in some way or other.

This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind.

An interdisciplinary text that investigates mental capacity and considers how relationships can affect an individual''s ability to make decisions.

Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of philosophical, social, ethical, and legal challenges arising as a consequences of current advances in neurosciences and neurotechnology.

This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions.

What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart?

This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes' Jr.

Readers of this book receive an overview of the main perspectives and research of recent decades in the fruitful collaboration between Classics and Cognitive studies.