Philosophy of mind

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.

This book engages with what are widely recognized as the two core dimensions of emotion.

This edited volume focuses on the hypothesis that performativity is not a property confined to certain specific human skills, or to certain specific acts of language, nor an accidental enrichment due to creative intelligence.

This edited collection presents the latest cutting-edge research in the philosophy and cognitive science of temporal illusions.

This edited volume examines aspects of the mind/consciousness that are relevant to the interpretations of quantum mechanics.

This book provides an in-depth historical exploration of the risk and protective factors that generate disproportionality in the psychological wellness, somatic health, and general safety of Black men in four industrialized Euronormative nations.

Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science.

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain.

In the human quest for orientation vis-a-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role.

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

This book offers an analysis of experimental psychology that is embedded in a general understanding of human behavior.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law's engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights.

This book presents the innovative pedagogy of Writing Fantasy: a method for exploring and shifting one's identity as a writer.

Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency.

This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research.

This edited collection charts the rise and the fall of the self, from its emergence as an autonomous agent during the Enlightenment, to the modern-day selfie self, whose existence is realised only through continuous external validation.

This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics.

Plurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words "e;I"e; and "e;self"e; as suggestive of eight territories of meaning.

Mindfulness for the High Performance World provides a unique approach to mindfulness training, built upon the principles of Buddhist philosophy written in line with the Dalai Lama's description of meditation and mindfulness as "e;Science of the Mind"e;.

This book takes an innovative view of language and politics, charting the terrain of political identities and discourses in New Zealand through detailed linguistic analysis of interactions with its voters.

This volume brings together a collection of essays that explore in a new way how unacknowledged moral concerns are integral to debates in the philosophy of mind.

This book explores how philosophical realisms relate to psychoanalytical conceptions of the Real, and in turn how the Lacanian framework challenges basic philosophical notions of object and reality.

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy.

This innovative book proposes a unique and original perspective on the nature of the mind and how phenomenal consciousness may arise in a physical world.

Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society.

This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman-one sometimes modeled on their own mother-forms the romantic core of their greatest narratives.

This book is a novel and original collection of essays on Italians and food.

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

This book addresses the paradox that, despite quantifiable advances, people often struggle to experience positive wellbeing.

This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to 'those who come after' - the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumatic events.

Humour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is.

This book introduces concepts in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy.

Working with Transgender Young People and their Families advocates a critical developmental approach aimed at countering the cisgenderism that can be perceived in previous developmental literature on gender.

This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness.

This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger's philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian metapsychology.

This book addresses the need to radically transform societies plagued by racism.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of World Englishes and their place in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom.

This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today's most central tracks of cognitive science discourse.

This book explores how dementia acts as an existential threat, both to people diagnosed with the condition, and to their carers.

This book outlines the relationship between social identity theory and military to civilian transition, examining the mass movement of soldiers back into the civilian occupational world by considering literature specifically on role exit and in relation to the process of full-time military exit.

This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language.

This book is about the interweaving between cognitive penetrability and the epistemic role of the two stages of perception, namely early and late vision, in justifying perceptual beliefs.

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the representation of traumatic experience.

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing.

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

This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical  perspective.

This book provides new perspectives on endurance sport and how it contributes to a  good and sustainable life in times of climate change, ecological disruption and inconvenient truths.