Philosophy of mind

How to be a Researcher provides a strategic guide to the conduct of a successful research career within a university environment.

Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers.

Descartes's concern with the proper method of belief formation is evident in the titles of his works-e.

A capacity to act for reasons is a key indicator of intelligence.

In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory.

Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences are frequently interpreted as offering evidence for immortality and an afterlife.

One of the most basic and important distinctions we draw is between those entities with the capacity of agency and those without.

Why care about intellectual humility?

The Cartesian Split examines the phenomenon of Cartesian influence as a psychological complex in the Jungian tradition.

Self-deception poses longstanding and fascinating paradoxes.

This book presents new insights into the nature of the human mind as a product of the brain.

Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character.

This introductory text offers a clear, concise look at the philosophy of love.

Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology.

*; Explores how we naturally project consciousness onto machines and how this is reflected in human culture, science, artificial intelligence, and literature *; Demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history *; Looks at the contributions and influence of Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, Philip K.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

According to Heidegger, naturalistic thinking is naive and unable to deal with its own essence and limitations.

This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory.

Reissuing works originally published between 1937 and 1992, this collection of original texts addresses the philosophical realm of metaphysics, not only ontology but the philosophy of science, religion and morals.

Neuroscience has made considerable progress in figuring out how the brain works.

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich's philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2) his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and (3) his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Humanity and his judgments on terrorism.

This collection examines the instrumental role of intersubjectivity in Husserl's philosophy and explores the potential for developing novel ways of addressing and resolving contemporary philosophical issues on that basis.

This book offers new direction in disability studies, by integrating the medical and social model of disability.

This vintage book was published in 1912 by the Yogi Publication Society.

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

Leisure activities account for much of our time - and money.

In this book, educator-actor-playwright-director Elizabeth Hess offers systematic and original explorations in performance technique.

What is the relationship between consciousness and our brain?

This is a unique volume in which a critical introduction and multiple chapters offer a wide-ranging discussion of medieval conceptions of the nature of humankind, its relationship with the universe, and the processes of thinking by which both are conceptualized.

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 unites research in philosophy and cognitive science with cultural history to re-examine memory in early modern religious practices.

Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers.

Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond.

In this new addition to the College de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes.

The book highlights a neglected aspect of our moral practices: we can morally protest objectionable conduct without blaming agents for it.

This volume breaks new grounds by bringing together a great variety of innovative contributions on triangulation, epistemology, and mind.

Die großen Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaften während der letzten Jahrzehnte haben zu einem neuen, wissensbasierten Weltbild geführt.

This volume introduces the methodological value of hermeneutic dialogue in the field of theoretical and philosophical psychology.

This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author's journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented college students.

This book is an empirically informed investigation of the philosophical problem of mental causation, and a philosophical investigation of the status of cognitive scientific generalisations.

This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation.

The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms-the norms governing our thought and talk-are profoundly social.

As witnessed by recent films such as Fight Club and Identity, our culture is obsessed with multiple personality-a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways.

A popular model of human action treats it as universally explicable by appeal to what we want.

Vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass innovatives Handeln in der Gegenwart eine große Wertschätzung erfährt, unternimmt das Buch eine Untersuchung des Begriffs, des Ursprungs, des Werts und der Spielarten der Kreativität.

This text illuminates the relevance and importance of Heidegger's thought today.

Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations.