Mind & Body

Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All...

Kim Sterelny here builds on his original account of the evolutionary development and interaction of human culture and cooperation, which he first presented in The Evolved Apprentice (2012). Sterelny sees human evolution not as hinging on a single key...

'Caloric restriction is one of the scientifically best-established ways to enhance longevity. A fascinating deep dive into the science and history of fasting.' - Steven M. Lipkin, MD, PhD; director, Adult and Cancer Genetics Clinic, Weill Cornell...

In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life, and goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and...

Signs of Reincarnation provides a systematic, inter-disciplinary examination of beliefs in as well as evidence for reincarnation that will appeal to students of anthropology, religious studies, philosophy, and the psychology of consciousness and memory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409043Author Maxine Sheets-JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm)...

The Early Modern Subject explores the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity-two fundamental features of human subjectivity-as it developed in early modern philosophy. Udo Thiel presents a critical evaluation of these features as they...

Where there is data there are questions of ownership, leaks, and worries about misuse. When what's at stake is data on our brains, the stakes are high. This book brings together philosophical analysis and neuroscientific insights to develop an account of...

Ernst Marti devoted his life to researching the 'etheric realm' - a subtle area that exists between the physical and spiritual. Taking the numerous statements and references by Rudolf Steiner as his starting point, Marti develops our understanding of the...

Why shouldn't neighbourhoods change? Why is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing you're against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why should making the city more fun for you and your friends be a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312160623Author William Irwin ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431g

Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental states. It converts informational input, such as light...

This book brings together a collection of essays written by scholars inspired by Eugene Gendlin's work, particularly those interested in thinking with and beyond Gendlin for the sake of a global community facing significant crises. The contributors take...

Movements of the Mind is about what it is to be an agent. Focusing on mental agency, it integrates multiple approaches, from philosophical analysis of the metaphysics of agency to the activity of neurons in the brain. Philosophical and empirical work are...

The pursuit of happiness is a defining theme of the modern era. But what if people aren't very good at it? That is the question posed by this book, the first comprehensive philosophical treatment of happiness, understood here as a psychological...

On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be assessed for rationality or justification. Susanna Siegel argues that this...

The present reissue of Wallace's translation of Hegel's Philosophy of Mind includes the Zusatze or lecture-notes which, in the collected works, accompany the first section entitled "Subjective Mind" and which Wallace omitted from his translation...

The capacity to represent and think about time, and the capacity to recollect the past are two of the most fundamental and least understood aspects of human cognition and consciousness. This book throws new light on central issues in the study of the...

The Computational Theory of Mind says that the mind is a computing system. It has a long history going back to the idea that thought is a kind of computation. Its modern incarnation relies on analogies with contemporary computing technology and the use...

Autonomous Agents addresses the related topics of self-control and individual autonomy. "Self-control" is defined as the opposite of akrasia-weakness of will. The study of self-control seeks to understand the concept of its own terms, followed by an...

Philosophers don't often write about the heart. At least, analytical philosophers don't. Why is this? Philosophers are said to live life "in their heads" rather than "from their hearts." But even if that is so, why don't they think and write about the...

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides an authoritative guide to it. Few concepts have received as much attention in recent philosophy as the concept of a reason to do or believe something. And...

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,...