Philosophy of mind

There has been a philosophical upheaval recently in our understanding of the metaphysics of the mind.

This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein's broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection.

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues.

This edited volume offers a new approach to the study of emotion in the past, focusing on the experience of emotional attachment.

To understand a cat: methodology and philosophy rests on the realization that the everyday behavior of a cat (but other animals too) should be understood through a new approach, namely methodological dualism.

In recent years the psychology of reasoning has undergone radical change, which can only be seen as a Kuhn-style scientific revolution.

Sanford C.

Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance (life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous morphogenesis and vice versa.

It is widely recognized that a person's values will profoundly affect what that person attends to, thinks about, and remembers.

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy.

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity, based on studies of classical Indian texts that deal with bodily subjectivity.

Giorgio Prodi (1928-1987) was an important Italian scientist who developed an original philosophy based on two basic assumptions: 1.

The author offers a new assessment of the influence of the Vienna Circle on language study, and considers its relevance to the debate in present-day linguistics about the relative merits of 'intuitive' and 'real life' sources of data.

Robert Brandom's rationalist philosophy of language, expounded in his highly influential Making It Explicit, has been the subject of intense scrutiny and debate, establishing him as one of the leading philosophers of his generation.

Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity.

David Hume's theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action.

From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial or temporal parts of organisms, bundles of perceptions, or what have you.

Cruelty is such a ubiquitous and at the same time disturbing phenomenon that we take for granted that we understand what it is, and how it impacts the ways in which we think about our humanity as a moral condition-how we understand our moral significance.

Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety is a vivid second-person inquiry into how anxiety plays a formative part in the constitution of subjectivity.

A radically new view of the nature and purpose of consciousnessHow is consciousness possible?

Many aspects of research activity in science are opaque to outsiders and this opacity infects how connections are made between science and other disciplines.

Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth

Much of what we say is never said aloud.

Some psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the processes that constitute them.

Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide is the first interdisciplinary reference resource which authoritatively takes stock of the progress made both in the philosophy of emotions and in affective science from Ancient Greece to today.

The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively.

This book examines the benefits of applying the Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) to teacher professional development.

In this, his final book, noted philosopher Ilham Dilman offers sharp critiques of his major contemporaries.

This book details a model of consciousness supported by scientific experimental data from the human brain.

Reliabilist accounts of knowledge are widely seen as having the resources for blocking sceptical arguments, since these arguments appear to rely on assumptions about the nature of knowledge that are rendered illegitimate by reliabilist accounts.

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

This book reviews the research on Einstein's brain from a sociological perspective and in the context of the social brain paradigm.

This book is a guide to a movement in cognitive science showing how environmental and bodily structure shapes cognition.

This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics.

Mitchell S.

What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being?

Using the concept of "e;plasticity,"e; or the brain's ability to change through growth and reorganization, as a theoretical framework, this book argues that encouraging an exploration of the self better establishes emotional value in the composition classroom.

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination.

This book offers a unique developmental perspective on identity construction in the context of mobility and transition to adulthood.

Exploring issues ranging from the metaphysical to the moral and legal, a team of esteemed contributors bring together some of the most important and cutting-edge findings in experimental philosophy of the self to address longstanding philosophical questions about personal identity, such as: What makes us today the same person as our childhood and future selves?

This book, now in its fifth edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to Buddhist psychology and counselling, exploring key concepts in psychology and practical applications in mindfulness-based counselling techniques using Buddhist philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics and contemplative methods.

This book seeks to explicate six basic concepts of consciousness from a variety of psychological, philosophical, historical, and lexicographic perspectives.

In the last few years, there has been an enormous amount of activity in the study of analogy and metaphor.