Mind & Body

Iris Murdoch was a notable philosopher before she was a notable novelist and her work was brave, brilliant, and independent. She made her name first for her challenges to Gilbert Ryle and behaviourism, and later for her book on Sartre (1953), but she had...

Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaphysical ideas are stated systematically and completely, and his metaphysics are the heart of his philosophical system as a whole. Sherburne has rearranged...

Drawing on philosophy, political and social theory, decision-theory, economics, psychology, history and literature, Jon Elster's classic book Sour Grapes continues and complements the arguments of his acclaimed earlier book, Ulysses and the Sirens...

A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400880Author Pille BunnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

'Everything you wanted to know about physics but were afraid to ask' Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens__________________________When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786585168168Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Camelot EditoraPublisher Camelot EditoraWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is...

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. However, we become less and less confident when we are called to answer fundamental questions about the...

Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book Corpus he discusses in...

Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn diagram is both elegantly simple-three overlapping circles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878424365Author Don Miguel RuizFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Publisher Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese...

Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably...

From his vantage point in the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman offers much needed clarity to the twenty-first century, an age characterized by significant tension between science and religion and by a marginalization of the humanities. As a...

In this masterclass of mindfulness and spiritual awareness, Fiann O Nuallain brings old Irish proverbs to life for the present generation. Proverbs stand the test of time because, as we explore their meaning, we find they contain timeless wisdom that...

In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory, Lau uses various neuroscience techniques to address challenging philosophical...

Philosophical theories of emotions, and to an extent some theories of scientific psychology, represent attempts to capture the essence of emotions basically as they are conceived in common sense psychology. Although there are problems, the success of...

Ingmar Persson offers an original view of the processes of human action: deliberating on the basis of reasons for and against actions, making a decision about what to do, and from there implementing the decision in action in a way that makes the action...

The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again--that we would stand...

The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: "negative energy," "dumping," "you could cut the tension with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290384Author Henepola GunaratanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, 'Of Immediate Apperception' was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the winning entry to a competition organised by the Berlin Academie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172282Author Peter RalstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the...

Looking at pictures, we see in them the scenes they depict, and any value they have springs from these experiences of seeing-in. Sight and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541822Author Timothy LearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556435720Author Clare Goodrick-ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526830Author Li-Young LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 89Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907269213Author Robert GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Grey Candle PublishingPublisher Grey Candle PublishingWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)...

In this ground-breaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark turns a common view of the human mind upside down. In stark opposition to familiar models of human cognition, Surfing Uncertainty explores exciting new theories in neuroscience,...

A bold synthesis of ancient sacred science, modern physics, and neuroscience designed to open access to higher consciousness* Explores how esoteric teachings from India and Tibet offer specific methods for tuning and directing consciousness to reach...

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and...

David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume's True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume's Treatise, his deepest engagement with sceptical...

'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.' - Nick Smith, Engineering and Technology Magazine November 2011 Artificial Intelligence: The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529365Author Francisco J. VarelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Consciousness and quantum mechanics are two great mysteries of our time--and recently scholars have postulated a deeper connection between them. Exploring this possible connection can be fruitful: an analysis of the conscious mind and psychophysical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361194Author Adrian KuzminskiFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 13mm