Philosophy of mind

This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the core issues related to the philosophy of mind.

Provides a philosophical and historical critique of contemporary conceptions of physicalism, especially non-reductive, levels-based approaches to physicalist metaphysics.

What is the role of fate in our lives?

This book presents a collection of essays honoring Professor Harry Heft, a leading figure in the field of ecological psychology, engaging critically with his work, thought and influence.

Kant's discussion of the relations between cognition and self-consciousness lie at the heart of the Critique of Pure Reason, in the celebrated transcendental deduction.

Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.

This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification.

In an era when many young people feel marginalized and excluded, this is the first comprehensive, critical account to shed new light on the trouble of 'belonging' and how young people in schools understand, enact and experience 'belonging' (and non-belonging).

How do you know your own thoughts and feelings?

This book illustrates the link that unites memory, thought, and narration, and explores how the act of telling helps people to understand themselves and others.

The Limits of Free Will presents influential articles by Paul Russell concerning free will and moral responsibility.

Across his relatively short and eccentric authorial career, Soren Kierkegaard develops a unique, and provocative, account of what it is to become, to be, and to lose a self, backed up by a rich phenomenology of self-experience.

A reconstruction of aspects of the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger.

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

An interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.

In this fascinating book on an exciting and timely topic, James Trefil explores just exactly what it is that is so special about the human mind that sets us so far from all the other animals and that also makes it impossible to design a computer that coul

This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human.

Pattern Theory is a groundbreaking exploration of the concept of pattern across a range of disciplines, including science, neuroscience, psychology, and social sciences.

Examines how neuroscience can inform the concept of free will and associated practices of moral and criminal responsibility.

This book probes the sources and nature of the 'discontents of modernity'.

This book explores the perception, construction and performance of professional identities in initial teacher education (ITE).

This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of 'human being'.

Psychiatry has long struggled with the nature of its diagnoses.

This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation.

This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition.

Draws on insights from several disciplines to answer questions of widespread interest about how to understand and treat psychopaths.

The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes conceptions of human well-being.

Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility in ethics.

Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue.

This book presents a novel interpretation of major problems of Indian ethics from an applied ethical perspective.

Referring to major spiritual traditions, transpersonal psychology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and modern physics, this book identifies and systematically integrates core ideas concerning psychospiritual development.

Michael Inwood, an eminent scholar of German philosophy, presents a full and detailed new commentary on a classic work of the nineteenth century.

Transition to sustainability is stuck and academic research has not resulted in significant change so far.

Proposes an interdisciplinary framework for understanding human desires and fears, derived from sexual selection during evolution, as motivators of behaviour.

What is consciousness?

Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of rationality.

Re-examines our relationship to the modern world by providing new perspectives on the influence of medieval, Jewish, and Christian theologies.

Creativity is one of the least understood aspects of intelligence and is often seen as `intuitive' and not susceptible to rational enquiry.

According to Russellian monism, an alternative to the familiar theories in the philosophy of mind that combines attractive components of physicalism and dualism, matter has intrinsic properties that both constitute consciousness and serve as categorical bases for the dispositional properties described in physics.

This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective.

This book presents a set of texts that reflect different approaches to the relationship between mind and technology.

To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N.

Consciousness as Complex Event: Towards a New Physicalism provides a new approach to the study of consciousness.

Volume Two of The History of Psychology through Symbols continues a groundbreaking approach of using symbols to deepen the understanding of psychological history as well as the importance of how one lives, an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises, called emancipatory opportunities, to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life.

Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical papers by D.