Mind & Body

This volume gathers together leading philosophers of science and cognitive scientists from around the world to provide one of the first book-length studies of this important and emerging field. Specific topics considered include learning and the nature...

Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. But there has been very little experimental philosophical research in the domain of philosophy of...

Combining perspectives from both continental and analytic philosophy, this timely volume explores how imagination today both shapes and is shaped by technology, art and ethics. Imagination is one of the most significant and broadly examined concepts in...

This book explores how predictive processing, which argues that our brains are constantly generating and updating hypotheses about our external conditions, sheds new light on the nature of the mind. It shows how it is similar to and expands other...

The enactive approach replaces the classical computer metaphor of mind with emphasis on embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Researchers from a range of disciplines unite to address the challenge of how to account...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786955609Author Norman W. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Fiction4allPublisher Fiction4allWeight(grams) 129g

The ways in which we imagine and experience time are changing dramatically. Climate change, unending violent conflict, fraying material infrastructures, permanent debt and widening social inequalities mean that we no longer live with an expectation of a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605203881Author W F Hegel Georg W F HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 440g

This book offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind in Ancient Greece. It collects essays that deal with different but interconnected aspects of that unified picture of our mental life shared by...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing, CollabTech 2022, held in Santiago, Chile during November 8-11, 2022. The 18 full and 4 work-in-process papers presented in...

At opposite ends of over two millenia Hegel and Aristotle, virtually alone of the great European thinkers, consciously attempted to criticize and develop the thought of their predecessors into systems of their own. Both were thus committed in principle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358048506Author David Alan BinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Pharos Books Private LimitedPublisher Pharos Books Private Limited

Phenomenology and analytic philosophy have skirmished often, but seldom in ways conducive to dialectical progress. Generally, the skirmishes seem more "political" than philosophical, as when one side ridicules the methods of the other or...

This edited work draws on a range of contributed expertise to trace the fortune of an Aristotelian thesis over different periods in the history of philosophy. It presents eight cases of direct or indirect challenges to the Aristotelian passive account of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783901769979Author Bernhard KutzlerFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Bernhard KutzlerPublisher Bernhard KutzlerWeight(grams) 372g

This book defends a novel view of mental representation-of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being. The book serves as a response to two problems in the philosophy of mind. One is the problem of first-personal, or egocentric, belief: how can we...

Can neuroscience help explain the first-person perspective? The Science of Subjectivity delves into the nature of experience, arguing that unconscious subjectivity is a reality. Neisser identifies the biological roots of the first-person, showing how...

This book explores the transition from the mind to the Supermind within the scope of an evolutionary metaphysics. The idea of Supermind has not been discussed so far in the mainstream philosophy of mind and consciousness. This book will give a new...

Mental Symbols is an essay on mind and meaning, on the biological implementation of mental symbols, on the architecture of mind, and on the correct construal of logical properties and relations of symbols, including implication and inference. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218368593Author B KFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Baldur PressPublisher Baldur PressWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 27mm

This book offers a comprehensive study of the views of ancient philosophers on mental disorders. Relying on the original Greek and Latin textual sources, the author describes and analyses how the ancient philosophers explained mental illness and its...

This book is an edited collection of papers from international experts in philosophy and psychology concerned with time. The collection aims to bridge the gap between these disciplines by focussing on five key themes and providing philosophical and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393282952Author Deepak GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Inspirational PublishingPublisher Inspirational PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612038599Author Aaron Martin CraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Spastic Cat PressPublisher Spastic Cat PressWeight(grams) 268g

Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to this extent adopting an interdisciplinary approach,...

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...

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.About the AuthorYujin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999202125Author Walter PerdigaoFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Walter Perdigao PublishingPublisher Walter Perdigao PublishingWeight(grams) 390g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950073924Author Carey R CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Go to PublishPublisher Go to PublishWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914195815Author Leo MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint UK Book PublishingPublisher Consilience MediaWeight(grams) 236g

'I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception.' These famous words of David Hume, on his inability to perceive the self, set the stage for JeeLoo Liu and John Perry's collection of essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626548947Author John ChristmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams) 485g

How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication? This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to an exciting new field in which...

In this book, Bradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge distinguish various species of fictionalism, locating and defending their own version of philosophical fictionalism. Addressing semantic and philosophical puzzles that arise from ordinary...

This accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental in feeling embodied in the world. Bringing together psychological, philosophical and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993062124Author Clement JewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint GreenleavesPublisher GreenleavesWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645973648Author Jean KerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tale Mapper Pty LtdPublisher Tale Mapper Pty LtdWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552479Author Carlos MontemayorFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g