Mind & Body

The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristotelian philosopher, Christian and former Marxist, Alasdair MacIntyre is ideally placed to bring about a...

Analysing marginality from an analytic perspective and drawing on canonical theories by Dilthey, Collingwood, Wittgenstein, Foucault, John McDowell, Susan Carey and Michael Tomasello, this book is an important contribution to ongoing debates on...

This book argues that thinking is bounded by neither the brain nor the skin of an organism. Cognitive systems function through integration of neural and bodily functions with the functions of representational vehicles. The integrationist position offers...

Although highly influential, Brentano's doctrines from Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint were taken up and changed by his students and subsequent thinkers. Tassone's study of this important text offers readers a better understanding of PES and...

Determined human beings usually follow one of the 3 WAYS widely available. These 3 ways correspond with the 3 basic elements available on the planet: Earth, Water and Air. However the only perfect way towards understanding the interrelations of energies...

This book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the...

This Element surveys contemporary philosophical and psychological work on various forms of irrationality: akrasia, strange beliefs, and implicit bias. It takes up several questions in an effort to better illuminate these more maligned aspects of human...

"The worst thing about food science, the elephant in the room, is that it's not just the opinions that are changing-but the 'facts' themselves shift too." Did you know that the great philosophers were the original foodies? To eat or not to eat? That's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889592198Author Apurva MalpaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039189928Author David L ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 295g

Discussing marginality from an analytic perspective and drawing on canonical theories by a diverse set of authors, such as Dilthey, Collingwood, Wittgenstein, Foucault, John McDowell, Susan Carey, Michael Tomasello, and Chris Frith, this book is an...

The Evolution of Consciousness brings together interdisciplinary insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science to explain consciousness in terms of the biological function that grounds it in the physical world. Drawing on the...

Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which such items are being used), and assesses recent answers to the fundamental...

What does it mean to think with images? There is a well-established tradition of studying thought processes through the nature of language, and we know much more about thinking with language than about thinking with images. Piotr Kozak takes an important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838217031Author Trevor HarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section...

This book brings together perspectives on predictive processing and expected experience. It features contributions from an interdisciplinary group of authors specializing in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.Predictive...

This book offers an ability-based view of mental disorders. It develops a detailed analysis of the concept of inability that is relevant in the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic context by drawing on the most recent literature on the concepts of ability,...

This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior. It explores a cluster of related topics at the intersection of philosophy of mind and psychiatry, while also charting the historical development of work...

The question of autonomy is fundamental to understanding some of the most important questions and debates in contemporary political and moral life, from freedom of the individual, free will and decision-making to controversies surrounding medical ethics,...

We often explain our actions and those of others using a commonsense framework of perceptions, beliefs, desires, emotions, decisions, and intentions. In his thoughtful new book, Peter Carruthers scrutinizes this everyday explanation for our actions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960090560Author Douglas GruntherFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Epigraph PublishingPublisher Epigraph PublishingWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038327864Author Cory AitkenFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227061072Author Catherine J RosserFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Catherine J RosserPublisher Catherine J RosserWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963793864Author Mba Tony BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Game Changer PublishingPublisher Game Changer PublishingWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783950487541Author Bernhard KutzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Bernhard KutzlerPublisher Bernhard KutzlerWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788792130495Author Anette ForssFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Automatic Press / VIPPublisher Automatic Press / VIPWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955888011Author I C RobledoFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Thoughtful PressPublisher Thoughtful PressWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223648789Author Jeremy B SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Jeremy SimsPublisher Jeremy SimsWeight(grams) 113g

The title is meant to indicate that consciousness is being examined largely within the history of philosophy, and within the period of time from Descartes to Ayer. Investigators aiming to understand consciousness and minds usually try to take account of...

This book aims to answer two simple questions: what is it to want and what is it to intend? Because of the breadth of contexts in which the relevant phenomena are implicated and the wealth of views that have attempted to account for them, providing the...

In this book, Matej Kohar demonstrates how the new mechanistic account of explanation can be used to support a non-representationalist view of explanations in cognitive neuroscience, and therefore can bring new conceptual tools to the...

The author defends nonconceptualism, the claim that perceptual experience is nonconceptual and has nonconceptual content. Continuing the heated and complex debate surrounding this topic over the past two decades, she offers a sustained defense of a novel...

This book describes a novel methodology for studying algorithmic skills, intended as cognitive activities related to rule-based symbolic transformation, and argues that some human computational abilities may be interpreted and analyzed as genuine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988251417Author Charles MwewaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Africa in Canada PressPublisher Africa in Canada PressWeight(grams) 127g

The type identity theory, according to which types of mental state are identical to types of physical state, fell out of favour for some years but is now being considered with renewed interest. Many philosophers are critically re-examining the arguments...

Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious is the only comprehensive, systematic study of Sigmund Freud's philosophy of mind. Freud emerges as a sophisticated philosopher who addresses many of the central questions that concern contemporary philosophers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761590702Author James ConantFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Book Bound StudiosPublisher Book Bound StudiosWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889593874Author Sid KFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 181g

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as ‘original existences’: feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own. In doing so, the book serves as a valuable counterbalance to...