Philosophy of mind

This book takes a close look at how girls of color think, talk, and learn about sex and sexual ethics, how they navigate their developing sexuality through cultural stereotypes about sex and body image, and how they negotiate their sexual learning within a co-ed sex education classroom.

This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users.

This book looks into the role played by mediated communication, particularly new and social media, in shaping various forms of struggles around power, identity and religion at a time when the Arab world is going through an unprecedented period of turmoil and upheaval.

This book depicts how Freud's cocaine and Benjamin's hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse.

This book summarizes and integrates the social scientific research on racial colorblindness, focusing primarily on work within the field of psychology.

This book is about people that are uniquely situated between the realms of activism, within the Psychiatric Survivor Movement, and their careers as mental health professionals.

This book presents a radical and intuitive argument against the notion that intentional action, agency and autonomy are features belonging only to humans.

Digital technologies are deeply embedded in everyday life with opportunities for information access and perpetual social contact now mediating most of our activities and relationships.

This book compares two competing theories of human nature: the more traditional theory espoused in different forms by centuries of western philosophy and the newer, Darwinian model.

This book argues that post-PhD career planning should ideally begin at the same time as the PhD itself.

In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.

This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life.

This book focuses on the role of intuition in querying Socratic problems, the very nature of intuition itself, and whether it can be legitimately used to support or reject philosophical theses.

This volume examines the role and representation of 'race' and ethnicity in the media with particular emphasis on the United States.

At the heart of this book is one of the most ancient and profound question philosophers, spiritual seekers, and curious individuals have pondered since the beginning of history: "e;Who am I?

Offeringnew critical approaches to Dada as quintessential part of theAvant-Garde, Dada and Existentialism: the Authenticity of Ambiguity reassessesthe movement as a form of (proto-) Existentialist philosophy.

This book explores how culture and citizenship are theorised, promoted and learned throughout schools in Wales.

This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law.

This volume illustrates the relevance of phenomenology to a range of contemporary concerns.

This book is Wiebe's defense of the claim that a significant form of spiritual experience is found in 'knowing something we have no right to know'.

Addiction argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that must be understood on many levels at once.

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering.

The Intelligent Mind conceives the psychological reality of thought and language, explaining how intelligence develops from intuition to representation and then to linguistic interaction and thinking.

The aim of this book is to acquire a better understanding of the question 'who am I?

The book explores concepts throughout the history of philosophy that suggest the possibility of unconscious thought and lay the foundation for ideas of unconscious thought in modern philosophy and psychoanalysis.

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty's unwritten ethics.

This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism.

We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent.

Albert Camus was a formative artist, writer and public figure whose work defies conventional labels, and whose legacy is controversial but substantial.

This book argues that educators and the general public have become complacent about girls' education as a consequence of the more recent fuss about problems for boys.

This innovative edited collection brings together leading international academics to explore the use of various non-prescription and prescription substances for the purpose of perceived body image enhancement.

Taking care of oneself is increasingly interpreted as taking care of one's brain.

Who are we in simulated worlds?

This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers.

We all play games at work - but have you ever wondered how your identity becomes bound up with game playing?

This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts.

Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind-body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape his new and influential theory of perception.

This book brings Jacques Lacan's work on the problem of anxiety into a jarring and fruitful confrontation with phenomenology, existentialism, and the 'jargon' of authenticity.

This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female.

This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges.

Marx, the Body, and Human Nature shows that the body and the broader material world played a far more significant role in Marx's theory than previously recognised.

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

What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain?

How Creativity Happens In The Brain is about the brain mechanisms of creativity, how a grapefruit-sized heap of meat crackling with electricity manages to be so outrageously creative.

This book provides the first comparative analysis of the three major streams of contemporary narrative psychology as they have been developed in North America, Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.

An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation maintains that current models of moral deliberation do not effectively deal with contemporary moral complexity because they are based on an inadequate theory of moral cognition.

Williamson explains, defends, and applies Kant's theory of emotion.

This book presents a study of the various feelings of awe and wonder experienced by astronauts during space flight.

Science and the End of Ethics examines some of the most important positive and negative implications that science has for ethics.

Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting.