Philosophy of mind

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

Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises, and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors, and theorists.

This book offers a radical new reading of the 1950s and 60s American literary counterculture.

The purpose of A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume II, is to encourage clinical and personal reflection on the part of reading clinicians, so as to foster more thought about the meaning and complexities of the therapeutic encounter.

This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and discussion by scientists and philosophers.

This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label.

This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness.

An encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.

Bishop and Trout here present a unique and provocative new approach to epistemology (the theory of human knowledge and reasoning).

The ability to learn concepts lies at the very core of human cognition, enabling us to efficiently classify, organize, identify, and store complex information.

This collection brings together a set of new papers that advance the debate concerning the nature of explanation in mind and brain science, and help to clarify the prospects for bonafide integration across these fields.

This book delivers philosophy's first sustained examination of handedness: being left-handed, right-handed, etc.

Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity.

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy.

This volume pulls together interdisciplinary research on cognitive representations in the mind and in the world.

The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical criticism.

Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic (including cross-modal) investigation.

In recent years historians of psychoanalysis have come to view Freud's case of Anna O.

This is the first collection of essays devoted to the thought of Anselm W.

This edited volume includes contributions from internationally renowned experts in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions.

Building on the thriving discussion on the role of attention within the phenomenological tradition, from Aron Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty to Bernhard Waldenfels, this book investigates the enigmatic role of attention as a faculty that enables change within subjective and intersubjective experience.

This book explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E.

The central question of naturalism - the relation of philosophy to science - was one of the defining strands of twentieth-century thought and remains a major source of debate and controversy.

All people spend a considerable portion of their lives either as dependents or the caretakers of dependents.

One of the most important research programmes in contemporary cognitive science is that of extended cognition, whereby features of a subject's cognitive environment can in certain conditions become constituent parts of the cognitive process itself.

A collection of new essays that develop themes from the work of the philosopher Jaegwon Kim.

This book explores humanising practice within higher education (HE).

Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of philosophical, social, ethical, and legal challenges arising as a consequences of current advances in neurosciences and neurotechnology.

The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy.

The Phenomenology of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood provides an ethical, social, and psychological investigation of the process of becoming a mother.

This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course.

A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness.

This book presents a new structural approach to the psychology of the person, inspired by Kenneth Colby's computer-generated simulation, PARRY.

This book highlights the oft neglected moral aspect of "e;the self,"e; examining the variety of neurological, psychological, and social processes that enter into the development and maintenance of moral orientations.

Could robots be genuinely intelligent?

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 presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics.

Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology.

Shows how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity, demonstrating that such apprehension can be fascinating and of fundamental importance.

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When Alice stepped through the looking-glass, she encountered a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals.

This comprehensive study offers a balanced assessment of libertarian accounts of free will.

This book is a guide to critical reflective practice that highlights cultural differences and their impact on the therapeutic relationship.

The power of data drives the digital economy of the 21st century.

The present book intends to approach the problem of mind, meaning and consciousness from a non-naturalist or transcendental point of view.

Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what vanishes when we fall into dreamless sleep and reappears when we wake up or when we dream.