Mind & Body

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845065Author Rafael NunezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

This study elaborates and defends an account of the experience of self-identity that underwrites the possibility of authenticity (being true to oneself), only accessible with humility.About the AuthorDr. Daniel O. Dahlstrom received his Ph.D. from St...

Vision dominates philosophical thinking about perception, and theorizing about experience in cognitive science has traditionally focused on a visual model. In a radical departure from established practice, Casey O'Callaghan provides a systematic...

Peter Carruthers's essays on consciousness and related issues have had a substantial impact on the field, and many of his best are now collected here in revised form. The first half of the volume is devoted to developing, elaborating, and defending...

Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative. The main project of The Subject's Point of View is to argue that discarding certain elements of...

The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues...

Professor Wisdom gives an elementary introduction to the applications in philosophy of the analytical method. He believes that the aim of analysis is clarity, whereas the aim of speculative philosophy is truth. After a brief introduction on what analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038720Author Adam PautzFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 33mm

This Element surveys research on three central and interrelated issues about the nature of memory and remembering. The first is about the nature of memory as a cognitive faculty. This part discusses different strategies to distinguish memory from other...

This book presents a strong case for substance dualism and offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, showing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain the 'hard problem' of consciousness. Bringing together the discussion of...

In Life's Values Alan H. Goldman seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. The proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning, and well-being. Only the latter is the all-inclusive category of personal value, and it...

Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be justified. With the retreat from knowledge to justified belief there is also a retreat from perception to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999202118Author Walter PerdigaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Walter PerdigaoPublisher Walter PerdigaoWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Art and Philosophy of the Garden offers the first authoritative and comprehensive philosophical discussion of the aesthetics of gardens. Philosopher David Fenner and horticulturist Ethan Fenner address such questions as: what is a garden? Are some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985618162Author Max MalikowFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Theocentric Publishing GroupPublisher Theocentric Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 313g

Intentionality is the mind's ability to be "of," "about," or "directed" at things, or to "say" something. For example, a thought might "say" that grass is green or that Santa Claus is jolly, and a visual experience might be "of" a blue cup. While the...

Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world. The correct response to the problem,...

Most of the time people perceive using multiple senses. Out walking, we see colors and motion, hear chatter and footsteps, smell petrichor after rain, feel a breeze or the brush of a shoulder. We use our senses together to navigate and learn about the...

Thomas Reid (1710-96), the Scottish natural and moral philosopher, was one of the founding members of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society and a significant figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Reid believed that common sense should form the foundation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680922332Author James AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Is linguistic meaning to be accounted for independently of the states of mind of language users, or can it only be explained in terms of them? If the latter, what account of the mental states in question avoids circularity? In this book Brian Loar offers...

John Hawthorne and David Manley present an original treatment of the semantic phenomenon of reference and the cognitive phenomenon of singular thought. In Part I, they argue against the idea that either is tied to a special relation of causal or...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789075240276Author Mieke MosmullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint OccidentPublisher Occident

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A study of the scope and limits of understanding.How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about...

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This open access book is about the German term 'Menschenbild'. This term concerns basic beliefs about humanity such as equality or hierarchy, the desirability of freedom or control, and the relationship of people to nature. Such beliefs shape everything...

What if the version of you the world sees isn't the real you?This book explores identity as the bridge between Being and Becoming-the conduit through which essence within meets expression outside. Drawing on Western psychology (Rogers on congruence and...

In this book, Brice Halimi revives the connection between philosophy of language and philosophy of mathematics which founded analytic philosophy. Russell's logical analysis in The Principles of Mathematics aimed to identify the 'logical constants' of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401467Author Grant GillettFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Psychoanalysis claims that the individual human mind is structured by its childhood relationships with its parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently re-introduced new dimensions...

Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture.Book...

Throughout his philosophical development, Wittgenstein was more concerned with language than with any other topic. No other philosopher has been as influential on our understanding of the deep problems surrounding language, and yet the true significance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977320011Author VaishaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Purple Haze PressPublisher Purple Haze PressWeight(grams) 178g

Ernst Tugendhat's major work, Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die sprachanalytische Philosophie (1976), was translated into English in 1982. Although trained in Heideggerian phenomenological and hermeneutical thinking, Tugendhat increasingly came to...

"Contrary to common claims about the absence of individualism in early China and its supposed reification in 'the West,' both the Western and Chinese traditions have historically been characterized by diverse and constantly evolving attitudes toward the...

'Lucid, entertaining and precise... a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life' Tim Clare, GuardianIs this the game you want to be playing?Scoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning our daily lives - whether it's the fit bits on our...