Philosophy of mind

In our everyday social interactions, we try to make sense of what people are thinking, why they act as they do, and what they are likely to do next.

This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior.

This book introduces a new concept of liberty, based on the idea that being free means being the humans we evolved to be in our first 200,000 years.

Engaging undergraduate students and instigating debate within philosophy seminars is one of the greatest challenges faced by instructors on a daily basis.

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

An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition.

Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing.

Artificial Psychology (AP) is a highly multidisciplinary field of study in psychology.

The chapters in this volume are all devoted to a single question: Can wisdom be taught, or at least fostered?

Stephen Daniel presents a study of the philosophy of George Berkeley in the intellectual context of his times, with a particular focus on how, for Berkeley, mind is related to its ideas.

Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles.

Plato's Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge.

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.

In this book, Thomas Svolos tests the claim that a practicing psychoanalyst is afforded a unique perspective on issues of politics, social and cultural affairs, trained, as they are, to look out for that which is not readily transparent to a patient.

This volume focuses on the emergent field of neuroethics comparing and contrasting how two democracies, Canada and the United States, have begun adapting public policy design to better fit human minds.

This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947-2019), whose original clinical theory constitutes a major contribution to the areas of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy.

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

In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know.

In many respects, Brentano conducted pioneering analyses of problems that are currently in the focus of cognitive science and artificial intelligence: from the problem of reference to that of representation, from the problem of categorial classification to ontology and the cognitive analysis of natural language.

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

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is a towering figure in modern thought, but one who has hitherto been severely underappreciated.

Hellenistic philosophy concerns the thought of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, the most influential philosophical groups in the era between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the defeat of the last Greek stronghold in the ancient world (31 BCE).

A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience.

What if judgment returned to the craft of magic?

The relationship between empathy and morality has long been debated.

Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was an eminent theorist across the fields of philosophy, physical chemistry and economics.

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying 'a person is a person through other persons'.

This book, first published in 1951, is an examination of Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature', 'An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals', and 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'.

An edition of Hume''s profoundly influential work together with some of his other writings.

This book offers a systematic look at current challenges in moral epistemology through the lens of research on higher-order evidence.

This volume investigates the neglected topic of mental action, and shows its importance for the metaphysics, epistemology, and phenomenology of mind.

Philosophers since Descartes have felt themselves compelled to make a choice between mind and body.

Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy.

This book explores the transition from the mind to the Supermind within the scope of an evolutionary metaphysics.

A neuroscientific perspective on the mind–body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation.

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.

Regardless of the subject matter, our studies are always searching for a sense of the universal in the specific.

Manfred Kets de Vries wears many "e;hats"e;-psychoanalyst, executive coach, consultant, management educator, researcher, writer-but he has noticed that whichever hat he is wearing, every question he is asked boils down to one thing: "e;How can I live a well-lived life?

This book, first published in 1987, is an extended examination of Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy.

Philosophers have long debated whether morality is objective.

The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership?

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

First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental Phenomenologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe.

The second in a two-part set, this volume offers a detailed examination of the application of existential psychology.

Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture.

First published in 1934, and revised and expanded in 1964, this book is the standard work on the political thought of Rousseau.

This book explores how Wittgenstein's personal life provided more of a reference point for his philosophical work than has been previously thought.