Philosophy of mind

In Certainty in Action, Dani le Moyal-Sharrock describes how her encounter with Wittgenstein overturned her previous assumptions that the mind is a product of brain activity and that thought, consciousness, the will, feelings, memories, knowledge and language are stored and processed in the brain, by the brain.

Dazzlingly original but deeply engaged with the philosophical currents of her time, Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was one of the most ingenious and exciting philosophers of the seventeenth century.

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This book examines Felix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cuts across conceptual, political, and institutional spheres.

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

Pierre Janet (1859 - 1947) is considered to be one of the founders of psychology, and pioneered research in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy and psychotherapy.

Levinas for Psychologists provides a rigorous, yet accessible, examination of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy and its implications for psychology and the human and social sciences.

A lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of mind, suitable for readers with a basic grounding in philosophy.

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

Philosophy of Mind: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the fundamental philosophical questions and theories about the mind.

In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth.

This unique Handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death.

Traditionally, the notion of defeat has been central to epistemology, practical reasoning, and ethics.

A proposal that human social cognition would not have evolved without mechanisms and practices that shape minds in ways that make them easier to interpret.

This Key Concepts pivot considers the fundamental Chinese cultural ideal of harmony (he/?

In this third part of the trilogy "e;Dimensions of Reality"e; the author gives insight into the worldview underlying Nagual Shamanism and explains a multi-dimensional model of human beings and their subtle-energetic anatomy.

Stream of Consciousness is about the phenomenology of conscious experience.

This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the "e;second person"e; in human interaction, the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding.

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

Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics organizes part of psychophysics -- a science of quantitative relationships between human sensations and the stimuli that evoke them.

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

Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construct sound theories.

This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape.

This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of "e;Enlightenment rationalism.

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of Heidegger's account of affective phenomena.

This book offers a new perspective on the motherhood experience.

Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems: A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework (LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating the work of the health and human service professions.

Debates current in the philosophy of mind regarding the gathering and processing of information, and the nature of perception and representation, also animated some of the most important figures in early modern philosophy, among them Descartes, Hume, and Berkeley.

Evidence is mounting that we are not as in control of our judgments and behavior as we think we are.

This book provides a significant contribution to scholarship on the psychology of science and the psychology of technology by showcasing a range of theory and research distinguished as psychological studies of science and technology.

This book is an anthology of Mark Edward's creative practice-led projects.

Despite the recognized importance of cultural diversity in understanding the modern world, the emerging science of cognitive psychology has relied far more on experimental psychology, neurobiology, and computer science than on cultural anthropology for its models of how we think.

This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life.

Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2 contains fourteen articles -- thirteen previously published and one new -- that reflect the fast-moving changes in the field over the last five years.

This book is a unique collaboration of philosophers from across the world bringing together contemporary concepts of consciousness, the Maori conception of self, as well as Indian and Buddhist concepts of self and mental states.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment.

Combining perspectives from both continental and analytic philosophy, this timely volume explores how imagination today both shapes and is shaped by technology, art and ethics.

In early China and ancient Greece, self-cultivation was considered crucial for leading a flourishing, fulfilled life.

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

On the whim of an idea, a sophomore student, unlike any other sophomore, takes on the might of the academic world with one of the most thought provoking books written on psychology and philosophy.

This book analyses Muslim-origin immigrant communities in Europe, and the problematic nature of their labelling by both their home and host countries.

This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors.

Originally published in 1968 The Founders of Psychical Research is centred upon the lives and work of Henry Sidgwick, Edmund Gurney and Frederic Myers - prominent in the Society for Psychical Research (S.

Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy promotes a critical understanding of the ideas, traditions, values, and principles that inform and shape - for better or for worse - what therapists do.

Experimental philosophy is a new movement that seeks to return the discipline of philosophy to a focus on questions about how people actually think and feel.