Mind & Body

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...

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