Philosophy of mind

This volume stresses the importance of a multidisciplinary perspective in deepening knowledge of the interface between semantics and pragmatics.

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

This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand.

Paul Churchland explores the unfolding impact of the several empirical sciences of the mind.

Averroes: Vermittler zwischen WeltenGlaube und Vernunft in der Begegnung von islamischer und westlicher PhilosophieIn diesem fesselnden Werk entführt uns Dr.

This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution.

Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "e;fusion"e; or "e;confluence philosophy"e;, a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.

Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought.

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.

The notion of reduction continues to play a key role in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science.

This book aims to focus the discussion of metaphysics by introducing it via Aristotle's view that it is the science of being as being, and delineating key types of being through the various chapters.

Mitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation by using a comparative method that engages different psychoanalytic traditions: Lacanian, Bionian, Kleinian, Contemporary Freudian.

This book brings Soren Kierkegaard's nineteenth-century existentialist project into our contemporary age, applying his understanding of "e;freedom"e; and "e;despair"e; to science and science studies, queer, decolonial and critical race theory, and disability studies.

Psychologists, philosophers, theologians and educationalists have all lately explored various conceptual, moral, psychological and pedagogical dimensions of gratitude in a rapidly expanding academic and popular literature.

Semantic externalism is the view that the meanings of referring terms, and the contents of beliefs that are expressed by those terms, are not fully determined by factors internal to the speaker but are instead bound up with the environment.

In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying horse, Pegasus.

Eine der Grundannahmen des westlichen Denkens ist die Trennung von Verstand und Gefühl.

Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism.

Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy.

Integrating science and art, this accessible, but nuanced work explains how we experience beauty and why we enjoy it.

This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind.

This book adopts an approach based on relational psychoanalysis, developed in the USA in and since the 1990s and guided by the self-psychology championed by Kohut and the Post-Kohutians.

Quantum physics, in contrast to classical physics, allows non-locality and indeterminism in nature.

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind.

Cognitive science is the study of minds and mental processes.

Perception is our main source of epistemic access to the outside world.

Cognitive Evolution provides an in-depth exploration of the natural history of cognition, from the beginning of life on Earth to present-day humans.

This book discusses outcomes of a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic, examining moral integrity in the post-communist Czech-speaking environment.

This book explores the concept of epistemic justification and our understanding of the problem of skepticism.

This book examines the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

Introduction to Transpersonal Psychology: Bridging Spirit and Science provides an accessible and engaging introduction to this complex and evolving field.

This monograph presents a clear account of when and how attentional processes can shape perceptual experience.

This book explores the central questions and themes lying at the heart of a vibrant area of philosophical inquiry.

Philosophy (especially philosophy of language and philosophy of mind), science (especially linguistics and cognitive science), and common sense all sometimes make reference to propositions--understood as the things we believe and say, and the things which are (primarily) true or false.

This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a wide spectrum of contributors committed to testing the validity of this dichotomy, exploring alternatives, and assessing their implications.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship.

This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches directed toward the articulation of a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in terms of attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world.

Die Frage nach dem Menschen ist heute – im Zeitalter der zunehmenden Verschmelzung von Mensch und Technik (Cyborgisierung), der Genom-Editierung und der fortgeschrittenen Naturalisierung des Menschenbildes – aktueller denn je.

This book explores the responsibility of psychological and neuropsychological perspectives in relation to the digitalisation of inter-subjectivity.

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary theories of perceptual justification that each highlight different factors related to perception, i.

This book is the first in-depth study of the representation of animals on television.

This book aims to illuminate theoretical and methodological advances in computational cultural neuroscience and the implications of these advances for philosophy.

This book explores how the trans phenomenon can challenge the existing concept of the Self and its nature.

This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry.

Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it.

This book examines phenomenal conservatism, one of the most influential and promising internalist conceptions of non-inferential justification debated in current epistemology and philosophy of mind.