Philosophy of mind

The modern West has made the focus on individuality, individual freedom, and self-identity central to its self-definition, and these concepts have been crucially shaped by Christianity.

This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood.

This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of of the logotherapy of Viktor Frankl and delves into the spiritual depths of an inherent search for meaning in life.

This book presents an original approach to the study of psychiatry that is based on a justified epistemological position, which demands that both the natural and the human/social sciences are necessary in developing our understanding.

This book focuses on ageing as a topic of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology.

This volume examines minimality in cooperation and shared agency from various angles.

This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding.

This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language.

This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people's understanding of their environment.

This book offers a unique developmental perspective on identity construction in the context of mobility and transition to adulthood.

This edited book examines modern foreign language teachers who research their own and others' experiences of identity construction in the context of living and teaching in UK institutions, primarily in the Higher Education sector.

This monograph offers a novel, neurocognitive theory concerning words and language.

This book focuses on the social psychological aspects of gay men's lives and provides a cutting-edge examination of topics including sexual orientation, sexual behavior, identity, relationships, prejudice, and health.

This book offers a unique perspective on the topic of boredom, with chapters written by diverse representatives of various mental health disciplines and philosophical approaches.

This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course.

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

This book presents the heritage of the Lvov-Warsaw School from both the historical and the philosophical perspective.

This book places Freud's theory of the reality principle in relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st century and illustrates how it may be practically applied.

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 focuses on ageing as a topic of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology.

This book presents a much-needed discussion on ethnic identification and morphosyntactic variation in San Francisco Chinatown-a community that has received very little attention in linguistic research.

The films of Lars von Trier offer unique opportunities for thinking deeply about how Philosophy and Cinema speak to one another.

This book is a guide to critical reflective practice that highlights cultural differences and their impact on the therapeutic relationship.

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.