Mind & Body

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...

Here, for the first time, contemporary Continental thought comes into conversation with analytic philosophy on all the principal topics of philosophy of mind. Rejecting the dominant Anglo-American paradigm, which reduces mental phenomena to their roles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826512604Author Jean Bethke ElshtainFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

How is it possible for the mind to be in contact with the world? How does perceiving an object differ from merely thinking about it? Is perception different for those beings who can also think? Do perceptions have representatives in language? Can mere...

This Element describes the development of a Theory of Mind, or mentalizing, in infancy and early childhood. Theory of Mind is a key social cognitive ability that permits children to predict and explain human behaviors by attributing mental states to...

This Element describes the development of a Theory of Mind, or mentalizing, in infancy and early childhood. Theory of Mind is a key social cognitive ability that permits children to predict and explain human behaviors by attributing mental states to...

Is the cosmos itself conscious, and could our minds be aspects of its vast, overarching consciousness?In this ambitious and original study, Khai Wager defends cosmopsychism, the view that the universe as a whole is conscious and that individual minds...

This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism. It argues that accepting physicalism is the healthiest stance we can take in the face of an account of the self and world which offers no metaphysical assurances.Why should we...

This book develops a novel theory of intentionality. It argues that intentionality is an internal essential relation of constitution between an intentional state and an object, or between such a state and a possible state of affairs as subsisting.The...

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre—and why that’s a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know...

How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it's an essential part of being humanToday, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But...

Consciousness is an intriguing mystery, of which standard accounts all have well-known difficulties. This book examines the central question about consciousness: that is, the question of how phenomenal features of our experience are related to physical...

This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind's architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a dialogue, the book explores some of...

This book elaborates the author's original metaphysics, panenmentalism, focusing on novel aspects of the singularity of any person. Among these aspects, integrated in a systematic view, are: love and singularity; private, intersubjective, and public...

The Neo-Kantian philosopher Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Lacan are two key figures in the so-called medial turn in philosophy: the notion that any form of access to reality is mediated by symbols (images, words, signifiers). This explains why the...

In The Sequential Imperative William Edmondson explains how deep study of linguistics - from phonetics to pragmatics - can be the basis for understanding the organization of behaviour in any organism with a brain. The work demonstrates that Cognitive...

Cognitive existentialism is a version of hermeneutic philosophy. The volume provides a summation of the critical approaches to this version. All essays are engaged in probing the value of universal hermeneutics. Drawing on various conceptions developed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781422376171Author Ariel BarSelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027278916Author Henri BergsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint OK PublishingPublisher OK Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736543320Author Liam BowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Liam BowlerPublisher Liam BowlerWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736543313Author Liam BowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Liam BowlerPublisher Liam BowlerWeight(grams) 127g

Neuroscience has raised many questions for philosophy and its traditional focus on the mind, but what does the emerging field of neurophilosophy teach us about the relationship between mind and brain? How have the new debates transformed our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068523212Author Robert PepperellFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint IRM EditionsPublisher IRM EditionsWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068523205Author Robert PepperellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint IRM EditionsPublisher IRM EditionsWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...