Mind & Body

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 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLP

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621965497Author Paolo SantangeloFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026863892Author ParacelsusFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 77g

The source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605203867Author W F Hegel Georg W F HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 236g

Massimo Marraffa and Cristina Meini re-connect the psychology of identity with its philosophical roots in this study. They trace the contemporary problem of the self to John Locke and William James’ foundational theories on personal identity. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223377566Author John PirilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint John PirilloPublisher John PirilloWeight(grams) 191g

This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein’s broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection. It takes the ethical relevance of Wittgenstein as a substantial and solid starting point for...

What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739012953Author S G BloomfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Stefania GriecoPublisher Stefania GriecoWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

The ways in which human action and rationality are guided by norms are well documented in philosophy and neighboring disciplines. But how do norms shape the way we experience the world perceptually? The present volume explores this question and...

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 is a collection of the most important writings of Oxford philosopher H.H. Price on the topics of psychical research and survival of death, collected from a wide variety of sources unavailable to most interested readers. Included are discussions of...

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...

This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance studies have grown to cover and explore different phenomena and subjects of research, from known events in...

Thinking about Religion examines cutting-edge breakthroughs from across the sciences concluding that religion persists because the mind is primed for faith, ready to grasp and fiercely defend beliefs that make sense but defy logic.Springer Book...

This is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science. Practical...

This volume answers questions that lead to a clearer picture of third-person self- knowledge, the self-interpretation it embeds, and its narrative structure. Bringing together current research on third-person self-knowledge and self-interpretation, the...

This book investigates how bodily information contributes to categorization processes for at least some conceptual classes and thus to the individual mastery of meanings for at least some word classes. The bodily information considered is mainly that...

This book presents a study of the various feelings of awe and wonder experienced by astronauts during space flight. It summarizes the results of two experimental, interdisciplinary studies that employ methods from neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957348117Author Brian RoscoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint i.e. PressPublisher i.e. PressWeight(grams) 41g

This volume offers an introduction to consciousness research within philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on the history of ideas and core concepts. The book begins by examining consciousness as a...

This book explores the methodological strategies for linking philosophy and neuroscience concerning the study of the conscious brain. The author focuses on four distinct methods for relating these two academic disciplines: isolationist, reductionist,...

This volume offers an introduction to consciousness research within philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on the history of ideas and core concepts. The book begins by examining consciousness as a...

The Belgian polymath Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874) pioneered social statistics. Applying his training in mathematics to the physical and psychological dimensions of individuals, he identified the 'average man' as characterised by the mean...

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 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...

What is the relationship between phenomenology and naturalism? Are they mutually exclusive or is a rapprochement possible between their approaches to consciousness and the natural world? Can phenomenology be naturalised and ought it to be? Or is...

This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life. This process aims primarily at defending the self-conscious subject against the threat of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604870114Author Jordan McAuleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Mega Niche MediaPublisher Celebrity Addresses Online, Div of J M P...

This is the first book-length presentation and defense of a new theory of human and machine cognition, according to which human persons are superminds. Superminds are capable of processing information not only at and below the level of Turing machines...

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...