Mind & Body

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...

This edited volume examines aspects of the mind/consciousness that are relevant to the interpretations of quantum mechanics. In it, an international group of contributors focus on the possible connections between quantum mechanics and consciousness. They...

A.E. Dyson defines 'the fifth dimension' as our unending moment of consciousness - related Janus-wise to clock-time (the Second Law of Thermodynamics) and to Eternity. He studies in depth plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; Christ's two great...

A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired by seminal works on the topic by Searle and Dreyfus,...

In this incisive analysis of academic psychology, Gregg Henriques examines the fragmented nature of the discipline and explains why the field has had enormous difficulty specifying its subject matter and how this has limited its ability to advance our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648897436Author Manuel CuradoFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732152625Author Aida I AskryFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Evertree PublishingPublisher Evertree PublishingWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798868973833Author Bart MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Realface PressPublisher Realface PressWeight(grams) 145g

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "the mind-body problem". The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as "what it is like" to be a certain living creature. David Chalmers...

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy. Structured as a historical-philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788792130105Author Patrick GrimFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Automatic Press / VIPPublisher Automatic Press / VIPWeight(grams) 304g

All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218147099Author Aline FrankfortFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Shapership PublishingPublisher Shapership PublishingWeight(grams) 408g

This book provides a framework that encompasses both physics and cognitive science – integrating them into a ‘theory of everything’ to establish a basis for both our scientific and humanistic endeavours.It explores the implications of brain laterality...

This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. The different perspectives presented in each chapter have previously been discussed between the...

This book aims to lay bare the logical foundations of tractable reasoning. It draws on Marvin Minsky's seminal work on frames, which has been highly influential in computer science and, to a lesser extent, in cognitive science. Only very few people have...

This book originated at a workshop by the same name held in May 2018 at the University of Pavia. The aim was to encourage a cross-disciplinary discussion on the limits of cognition. When venturing into cognitive science, notwithstanding the approach, one...

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conditions of the possibility of Experience ... must mean nothing else than all that which lies immanently in the essence of Experience ... and therefore belongs to it indispensably. The essence of Experience that phenomenological analysis of Experience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515423935Author Henri-Louis BergsonFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Gray Rabbit PublishingPublisher Gray Rabbit PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book brings together a team of international scholars to attempt to understand David Hume’s conception of the self. The standard interpretation is that he holds a no-self view: we are just bundles of conscious experiences, thoughts and emotions...

This volume brings together a collection of essays that explore in a new way how unacknowledged moral concerns are integral to debates in the philosophy of mind.The radical suggestion of the book is that we can make sense of the internal dynamics and...

Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was a philosopher who founded the Scottish school of 'common sense'. Much of Reid's work is a critique of his contemporary, David Hume (1711-1776), whose empiricism he rejects. In this work, written after Reid's appointment to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783033100398Author Paola KnechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Paola KnechtPublisher Paola KnechtWeight(grams) 195g

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the "Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul". This argument, which he took to be powerful yet fatally flawed, purports to...

Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival arguments that purport to show that data collected from ostensibly paranormal phenomena constitute good evidence for the survival of the self after death. Utilizing the...

As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field. This volume contains three kinds of papers corresponding to three of the main disciplines in cognitive...

The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski's philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbinski-Alfred Tarski's teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the renowned...

This book scrutinizes the practice of sailing and its relation to philosophy of mind. Sailing brings about a peculiar human-artifact interaction which can lead to unexplored research paths. The idea behind this collection is that this interaction is...

This book examines the concept of " Neurosemantics", a term currently used in two different senses: the informational meaning of the physical processes in the neural circuits, and semantics in its classical sense, as the meaning of language, explained in...

This volume is product of the third online consciousness conference, held at http://consciousnessonline.com in February and March 2011. Chapters range over epistemological issues in the science and philosophy of perception, what neuroscience can do to...

This book examines the concepts of subjectivity and selfhood developed in the oeuvre of Jean-Paul Sartre. Although Sartre is a prominent philosopher, the reception of his work is shrouded in misguided ideas concerning his alleged subjectivism. This book...

Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game- and decision-theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. An Introduction to GDT, with an overview of GDT pragmatics research to date and its relation to semantics and to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917438063Author Jerome V ScholleFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Jerome V SchollePublisher Jerome V ScholleWeight(grams) 694g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361442476Author Edward SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Neelkanth PrakashanPublisher Neelkanth PrakashanWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789369073009Author Johann Georg ZimmermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 168g

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