Mind & Body

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Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky, which for many years have been thought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903368002Author Bernhard KutzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Bernhard KutzlerPublisher Bernhard KutzlerWeight(grams) 140g

Drawing on a wide range of resources, including the history of philosophy, her role as director of a cognitive neuroscience group, and her Wittgensteinian training at Oxford, Jacobson provides fresh views on representation, concepts, perception, action,...

This book contributes to the developing dialogue between cognitive science and social sciences. It focuses on a central issue in both fields, i.e. the nature and the limitations of the rationality of beliefs and action. The development of cognitive...

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223076643Author Dg JuniorFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Dg JuniorPublisher Dg JuniorWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739012946Author S G BloomfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Stefania GriecoPublisher Stefania GriecoWeight(grams) 676g

With the rise of analytical philosophy the criticism against Hegelianism has become increasingly shrill, and signs of an embarrassment that Hegel's philosophy should ever have arisen are noticeable in such inftuential works as those of Karl Popper and...

It is often thought that consciousness has a qualitative dimension that cannot be tracked by science. Recently, however, some philosophers have argued that this worry stems not from an elusive feature of the mind, but from the special nature of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822941724Author Frank J BresciaFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 395g

This book studies the problem of acquaintance against the background of a more general theory of intentionality. Much of the relevant background is laid out in the book I wrote with Ronald McIntyre, Husserl and Intentionality (1982). However, since this...

This book discusses the themes of personhood and personal identity. It argues that while there is a metaphysical answer to the question of personal identity, there is no metaphysical answer to the question of what constitutes a person. The author argues...

The Intelligent Mind conceives the psychological reality of thought and language, explaining how intelligence develops from intuition to representation and then to linguistic interaction and thinking. Overcoming the prevailing dogmas regarding how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039177130Author Roberta VienneauFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 653g

This volume presents a selection of the philosophical essays which Richard Rorty wrote during the first decade of his career, and complements four previous volumes of his papers published by Cambridge University Press. In this long neglected body of...

This book addresses a part of a problem. The problem is to determine the architecture of cognition, that is, the basic structures and mechanisms underlying cognitive processing. This is a multidimensional problem insofar as there appear to be many...

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This volume is a collection of essays on a special theme in Aristotelian philosophy of mind: the internal senses. The first part of the volume is devoted to the central question of whether or not any internal senses exist in Aristotle's philosophy of...

This accessible and easy-to-follow book offers a new approach to consciousness. The author's eclectic style combines new physics-based insights with those of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, cognitive science and neuroscience. He proposes a view in...

This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese...

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich's philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922449733Author William DembskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty...

This collection of essays on the philosophy of love, by leading contributors to the discussion, places particular emphasis on the relation between love, its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic...

This is a concise, accessible, easy-to-navigate introduction to the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in philosophy of mind. "Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind" offers an introduction to a central topic in philosophy. The book offers a...

This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition...

Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind. But he also thought that the two interact with one another. Is such interaction possible, however, without either a materialist reduction of mind to matter or an idealist (phenomenalist)...

This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suarez's comprehensive theory of sense perception. The core theme is perceptual intentionality in Suarez's theory of the senses, external and internal, as presented in his Commentaria una cum...

This collection of essays on the philosophy of love, by leading contributors to the discussion, places particular emphasis on the relation between love, its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic...

The book is the first formulation of a meta-philosophical scheme rooted in the embodied cognition paradigm. The latter views subjects capable of cognition and experience as living, embodied creatures coupled with their environments. On the other hand,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783742981Author David GamezFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

This book is not written for posterity. It is meant to constitute part of my contribution to a continuing debate at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, epistemology, and the philosophy of cognitive science. The debate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223176367Author Jignesh SapraFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Jignesh SapraPublisher Jignesh SapraWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644715390Author Stephen James KinkadeFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Covenant BooksPublisher Covenant BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This powerful exploration of an important topic in philosophy of mind from ancient to contemporary philosophy presents an original argument against the current direction of debate and examines a wide range of philosophers from both continental and...

This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from...

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...

Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky, which for many years have been thought to...

Epistemic Reasoning and the Mental integrates the epistemology of reasoning and philosophy of mind. By examining the fundamental competencies involved in reasoning, Gerken argues that reasoning depends on the external environment in ways that are both...

We act for reasons. But, it is sometimes claimed, the mental states and events that make up reasons, are not sufficient conditions of actions. Reasons never make actions happen. We- as agents (persons, selves, subjects) - make our actions happen. Actions...