Philosophy of mind

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.

In this book, the author develops a new form of structural realism and deals with the problem of representation.

It is hard to interpret quantum mechanics.

This book takes a novel approach to the study of male eating disorders - an area that is often dominated by clinical discourses.

This book elaborates Jean Amery's critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind's Limits and his other writings.

This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy.

This book provides an overview and discussion of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (CPSD) as a general developmental science.

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively.

This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music.

This book features 20 essays that explore how Latin medieval philosophers and theologians from Anselm to Buridan conceived of habitus, as well as detailed studies of the use of the concept by Augustine and of the reception of the medieval doctrines of habitus in Suarez and Descartes.

La philosophie n'est pas une matiere abstraite et rebarbative !

Chaque jour, des millions de femmes partout dans le monde sont confrontées propos de Felicity Huffman aux mêmes problèmes physiques et émotionnels: baisse de libido, gain de poids, insatisfaction sexuelle, stress chronique, anxiété, déséquilibres hormonaux, infertilité, troubles du sommeil, manque de concentration, SPM, complications liées à la périménopause et à la ménopause et, surtout, une fatigue inexplicable qui domine tout.

This edited work draws on a range of contributed expertise to trace the fortune of an Aristotelian thesis over different periods in the history of philosophy.

"Dante''s Paradox" follows an individual''s quest for truth and enlightenment, leading to unexpected encounters with science fiction-like events.

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.

Was macht es mit dir, wenn du dich daran erinnerst, woher du kommst und wer du wirklich bist?

Extrait : "Qu'est-ce que le bien ?

Manifestation is a state of a more powerful flow, a state only achieved by raising your awareness and discovering your inner self.

What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment?

This book provides an overview and discussion of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (CPSD) as a general developmental science.

Once we came out of the jungle and found time to think of something besides food, sex, and shelter, we confronted the fundamental questions: what are we?

"e;When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher's photographs, you might think you're looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines.

Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished poet and fiction writer Martha Ronk.

An indispensable guide to the deeply philosophical concerns at the heart of every addict's struggle.

Do you wonder if your life really matters?