Mind & Body

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226672908Author Michael PolanyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447852377Author Wilfried HoudouinFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 1474gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Tim Button explores the relationship between words and world; between semantics and scepticism. A certain kind of philosopherthe external realistworries that appearances might be radically deceptive; we might all, for example, be brains in vats,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492837472Author Pierre HadotFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Ediciones Alpha DecayPublisher Ediciones Alpha DecayWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm)...

Nearly everyone has wronged another. Who among us has not longed to be forgiven? Who has not struggled to forgive? Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical book on forgiveness in both its interpersonal and political contexts, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637120323Author Angus J MenugeFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 1048gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626418Author Herbert V. GuentherFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This new Reader gives students an ideal overview of the historical developments and current controversies within this dynamic area of feminist theory. Wide-ranging articles stress the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary feminist thought and include...

This is a straightforward, elementary textbook for beginning students of philosophy. The general aim is to provide a clear introduction to the main issues arising in the philosophy of mind. Part I discusses the Cartesian dualist view which many find...

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...

When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she encounters a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. ...

Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find...

In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of 14 major essays that draw from more than 25 years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional psychoanalysis that deepens our understanding of the human...

The world shows up for us-it is present in our thought and perception. But, as Alva Noe contends in his latest exploration of the problem of consciousness, it doesn't show up for free. The world is not simply available; it is achieved rather than given...

Shaun Gallagher offers an account of psychopathologies as disorders of the self. The Self and its Disorders develops an interdisciplinary approach to an 'integrative' perspective in psychiatry. In contrast to some integrative approaches that focus on...

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition,...

Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, David Wiggins; they are drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author...

This Element is on new developments in the psychology of reasoning that raise or address philosophical questions. In traditional studies in the psychology of reasoning, the focus was on inference from arbitrary assumptions and not at all from beliefs,...

How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about...

Saul Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is one of the most celebrated and important books in philosophy of language and mind of the past forty years. It generated an avalanche of responses from the moment it was published and has...

Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like 'heap', 'red' and 'child'? And what is the logic of arguments involving this kind of vague expression? These questions are receiving increasing...

Is consciousness a purely physical phenomenon? Most contemporary philosophers and theorists hold that it is, and take this to be supported by modern science. But a significant minority endorse non-physicalist theories such as dualism, idealism and...

Psychoanalysis is, above all, the science of the emotions but, as yet, there is no single accepted theory of affects. Instead, there are many, all of them too limited, based, as they are, on idiosyncratic introspection. R. D. Hinshelwood presents an...

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The personal meaning of our action reveals who we are: understanding how that disclosure is possible enables us to describe our self-awareness more accurately and solve a raft of intellectual puzzles about our values and relationships.Much of our action...

Current debates about gender identity are fraught with contradictions. Even as we increasingly recognize gender as an assigned category or social convention, we still see it as inherent to who we are, fundamental to our sense of self. But the quest to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826512598Author Jean Bethke ElshtainFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies-autonomous and yet automatic. This entanglement, according to David W. Bates,...

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An entertaining introduction to the clashes between philosophy and AI over the last 70 years, from claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement consciousness, to arguments about cognitive architecture and ChatGPT.Now updated to include the...

This book proposes a comprehensive theory of cognitive feelings, also referred to as 'noetic', 'epistemic', or 'metacognitive' feelings. There are pivotal moments in our mental lives when, even before we have explicitly thought or reflected on the...

Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1947) was one of the most prominent philosophers in India in the first half of the 20th century. He was King George Professor of Philosophy at Presidency College in Calcutta. KC Bhattacharyya was a noted Kant scholar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262553896Author Jakob HohwyFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring How can we remember certain events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday and then forget we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well at some times but not at others? What...

In the wake of a personal loss and the upheaval of the pandemic, Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself at a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a profound question: Who am I and how did I get here? On Drugs blends memoir, investigative reporting and...

Is there a realm of the mental that can be singled out from other domains, and in what relation does being mental stand with other basic features of the world, notably being physical or having a body?

After World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents - the active "subjects" - of that revolution in Japan? Intensely debated at the time,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922828361Author Nicola Sage GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Nicola Sage GardnerPublisher Nicola Sage GardnerWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783957431714Author Godehard BruntrupFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Brill MentisPublisher Brill MentisWeight(grams) 662g

The Rational Inquirer offers an original account of the rational response to peer disagreement in terms of a duty to double-check one's initial conclusions and a permission to retain an inquiry-directing attitude of hypothesis toward those conclusions...