Mind & Body

From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities are foundational to biological life and shape social, cultural, and political forces, while simultaneously...

Psychology aims to give us a scientific account of how the mind works. But what does it mean to have a science of the mental, and what sort of picture of the mind emerges from our best psychological theories? This book addresses these philosophical...

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi-independent modules. The Architecture of the Mind has three main goals. One is to...

The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. A theme connecting several of the essays is the different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780262534574Author M. ChirimuutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT...

Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non-conscious, physical events. On the other hand, we cannot explain how...

Richard Sorabji presents a brilliant exploration of the history of our understanding of the self, which has remained elusive and mysterious throughout the spectacular development of human knowledge of the outside world. He ranges from ancient to...

What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These are questions with which philosophers have grappled for centuries, and they are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well...

Our sense-making capabilities and the relationship between our individual and collective intelligence and the comprehensibility of the world is both remarkable and deeply mysterious. Our capacity to make sense of the world and the fact that we pass our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607308Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061550249Author Ludwig WittgensteinImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590793916Author Ervin LaszloFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Select Books IncPublisher Select Books IncWeight(grams) 557g

This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman drama and beyond, it is a compelling hunt for the nature of free will.CHRIS NUNN is Associate Editor of...

The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2008 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies. 2008 and Winner, 2008 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary...

Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420978131Author Henri BergsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Shaun Gallagher offers an exciting contemporary perspective of the subject by retrieving many important insights made by the classic phenomenological philosophers, updating some of these insights in innovative ways, and showing how they directly relate...

If the universe is aimless, how do selves and aims emerge? Why do living beings have aims when inanimate things do not? Current science encourages us to reject the ghost-in-the-machine explanation-that something called spirit, soul, mind, or will was...

This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small. It makes accessible a wide range of key Latin texts from the fourth to the fourteenth century in fresh English translations...

The Cartesian cogito-the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"-is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination...

Is there such a thing as the essence of colour? How can we learn to experience colour more intensely? What is the connection between Christ and colour?Colour specialist Kees Veenman begins by observing the spring gold and the autumn gold of trees, before...

Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it. Yet bodily awareness has attracted little attention in the literature. Mind the Body is the first comprehensive treatment of...

The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545167Author Mark L. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

What is the relationship between common-sense, or 'folk', psychology and contemporary scientific psychology? Are they in conflict with one another? Or do they perform quite different, though perhaps complementary, roles? George Botterill and Peter...

This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of activities in which they are typically implicated, from art, music, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016488Author Alva No Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 142mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528711463Author Arthur Edward WaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of their significance. The philosophical problems stirred up by the existence of the emotions, over which many great philosophers of the past have laboured,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541303Author Timothy LearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Psychedelic Experience presents a philosophical account of psychedelic experience. A central premise of the book is that such experiences are mind-revealing experiences and that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics. In particular, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546577Author John HaugelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Joining the ancient debate over the roles of reason and appetite in the moral mind, In Praise of Desire takes the side of appetite. The book makes the claim that acting for moral reasons, acting in a praiseworthy manner, and acting out of virtue amount...

Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made...

In the seventeenth century, the famous French philosopher, Rene Descartes, held that nonhuman animals, lacking souls, are organic automata without any consciousness. This led him to participate in vivisections on dogs, dismissing their howls as mere...

How far can we apply the same moral principles to both public and private behaviour. In the interests of effective political action, are we right to accept acts of deceit, exploitation or force which we would regard as unacceptable in private relations...

This volume collects a number of Perry's classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity,Persons and Information,Self-Notions and The Self, and The Sense of Identity. Perry's Introduction puts his own work and...

The Objects of Thought addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. Tim Crane argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that we will not...

An ancient metaphor likens attention to an archer pulling her bow - the self directing her mind through attention. Yet both the existence of such a self, and the impact of attention on the mind, have been debated for millennia. Advancements in science...