Mind & Body

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this collection of thirteen new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism, bringing recent developments in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of...

A collection of concise and enlightening essays and reflections on the art of bouldering, from the author of bestseller The Zen of Climbing. More than a sport, bouldering is a craft that demands equal fine-tuning of the mind and body. It calls for total...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775248910Author Anny SlegtenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Kimberlite Publishing HousePublisher Kimberlite Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 237g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783945586419Author Conan CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Clemens Lode Verlag E.K.Publisher Clemens Lode Verlag E.K.Weight(grams) 133g

An examination of the law of karma approached as a philosophical thesis important in its own right and as a unifying concept within certain religious-philosophical systems. The author includes ideas expressed in the 20th century as well as those found in...

This book, now in its fifth edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to Buddhist psychology and counselling, exploring key concepts in psychology and practical applications in mindfulness-based counselling techniques using Buddhist philosophy of...

This book explores the idea that there is a certain performativity of thought connecting Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. On this view, we make judgments and use propositions because we presuppose that our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349055180Author Hywel David LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 276g

We know, more intimately than anything else, what it's like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existential doubts. But, despite the incredible advances of physical science, it seems that we're no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893309065Author Richard J ChouraFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint ArpressPublisher ArpressWeight(grams) 386g

This book conducts a sustained and detailed examination of the structure of tractable and intelligible reasoning in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Andreas attacks the apparent intractability of global transmodular inference and belief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495159114Author Lex NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Integral PublishersPublisher Integral PublishersWeight(grams) 249g

This book tells about the "History of Zen" in China and Japan. It has altogether 16 chapters. The first eight chapters are about Zen in China and the later eight chapters about Zen in Japan. It is mainly concerned with a detailed account of inheriting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792376757Author Dimple MohantyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Publisher ServicesPublisher Publisher ServicesWeight(grams) 163g

This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect—all varieties of pleasure and pain—and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an “enrichment approach” that understands...

Exploring issues ranging from the metaphysical to the moral and legal, a team of esteemed contributors bring together some of the most important and cutting-edge findings in experimental philosophy of the self to address longstanding philosophical...

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 book is an argument for moving beyond culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity as the necessary foundation of an authentic self. It highlights examples of people who are attempting to inhabit identities they feel are more...

This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks. One of the distinctive...

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...

Humour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is. This book addresses the question 'What is humour?' by first untangling the definitions of humour, amusement and funniness before then providing a new theory of humour which draws...

This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the central claims of...

This book is moved by two main questions. Is Love a matter of beauty or mortality? In other words, is love an ethical ideal? Also, modernity understood as the age of mechanical reproduction, has shaped not simply our cities but our very same way of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039177147Author Roberta VienneauFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 821g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987331712Author Michael FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Michael A. FullerPublisher Michael A. FullerWeight(grams) 494g

Frank Jackson's knowledge argument imagines a super-smart scientist, Mary, forced to investigate the mysteries of human colour vision using only black and white resources. Can she work out what it is like to see red from brain-science and physics alone?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782959067525Author Charles AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Mei ServicePublisher Mei ServiceWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957348018Author Brian RoscoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint i.e. PressPublisher i.e. PressWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 3mm

Written in a provocative, witty, and highly accessible style, this is not only a splendid general introduction to the central questions of consciousness and brain science, but also an answer to some of them. The author -- noted Glaswegian chemist A.G...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915206381Author Jonathan RohrerFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Writing Monkey CompanyPublisher Writing Monkey CompanyWeight(grams) 113g

Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words? This question has been a subject of debate since Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution was published in 1969. Naming...

This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that 'Man was created in the image of God', transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that 'Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures', further...

An analysis and assessment of Nietzsche's metapsychology. Nietzsche is neither a dualist nor a physical reductionist about the mind. Instead, he is best interpreted as thinking that the mind is embodied and embedded in a larger natural and social...

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...

There have been many voices in disciplines as various as philosophy, history, psychology, hermeneutics, literary theory, and theology that have claimed that narrative is fundamental to all that is human. Here is a book that, in an engaging and amusing...

The present book intends to approach the problem of mind, meaning and consciousness from a non-naturalist or transcendental point of view. The naturalization of consciousness has reached a dead-end. There can be no proper solution to the problem of mind...

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation,...

The book explores concepts throughout the history of philosophy that suggest the possibility of unconscious thought and lay the foundation for ideas of unconscious thought in modern philosophy and psychoanalysis. The focus is on the workings of...

A leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, George Campbell (1719-96) began to write what was to become his most famous work, The Philosophy of Rhetoric, soon after his ordination as a minister in 1748. Later, as a founder of the Aberdeen...

A leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, George Campbell (1719-96) began to write what was to become his most famous work, The Philosophy of Rhetoric, soon after his ordination as a minister in 1748. Later, as a founder of the Aberdeen...