First published in 1994, in The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information Raymond Barglow shows how contemporary technological environment furnish the unconscious with internal objects that hark back to a time in our lives prior to personal boundary formation and identity.
This introduction to these and many of the other problems posed by consciousness discusses the most important work of cognitive science, neurophysiology and philosophy of the past thirty years and presents an up-to-date assessment of the issues and debates.
First published in 1994, in The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information Raymond Barglow shows how contemporary technological environment furnish the unconscious with internal objects that hark back to a time in our lives prior to personal boundary formation and identity.
Stuart Brock and Edwin Mares offer a clear introduction to different realist and anti-realist positions and arguments in five key domains - science, ethics, mathematics, modality, and fictional objects.
Religious Literacies in Educational Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides an overview of current scholarship on religious literacy and its practical applications in public life.
Badiou's Deleuze presents the first thorough analysis of one of the most significant encounters in contemporary thought: Alain Badiou's interpretation and rejection of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.
An ideal introduction for students, Film, Theory and Philosophy brings together leading scholars to provide a clear, detailed overview of the key thinkers who have shaped the field of film philosophy.
En esta obra se intentan abordar algunos temas del psicoanalisis desde la filosofia, concretamente desde la hermeneutica analogica: su relacion tormentosa, pero necesaria; el estudio del hombre desde el psicoanalisis, dentro del cual se incluye el problema del mal; la relacion entre psicoanalisis y filosofia posmoderna; las instancias de la psique y la cuestion de la libertad; los pilares del psicoanalisis y su cuestionamiento; el concepto de interpretacion de Lacan y su relacion con la hermeneutica analogica; la logoterapia o psicoterapia existencial de Frankl, y la propuesta de Foucault del psicoanalisis como epimeleia o cuidado de si.
The literature of the English Renaissance demands some attention to the intellectual and educational background which produced it, in order to be seen in proper perspective.
In this book, we follow the footsteps of one of the greatest minds witnessed in Islamic and world history, the great scholar Ibn Sina, where he discusses his life and biography, and how this genius wove his life, who enriched the global library with his immortal contributions to various branches of science and knowledge, and how he was able to leave an indelible mark in both medicine and philosophy.
The pragmatism that emerges from this exploration of its "e;classic"e; and "e;new wave"e; forms is then assessed in terms of both its philosophical potential and its wider cultural contribution.
In Ethics for a Broken World Tim Mulgan imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might reshape the politics and ethics of the future.
In The Return of Feminist Liberalism, Ruth Abbey examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin, and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on liberalism.
All the principles that Gandhi applied in political and social life had strong spiritual and religious foundations, and it was these foundations that maximized the impact of these principles, and this book may serve as a shedding light on these solid foundations of Gandhi, to which he completely devoted his life.
Geneva and the Drift to War (1938) is based on the work of the 1937 session of the Geneva Institute of International Relations, which brought together men and women from all parts of the world to pool the results of their studies in international affairs, their experience of international administration, or their personal knowledge of international politics.
Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training and makes the philosophy of space and time accessible to anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject.
