Mind & Body

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997141603Author Scott TeitsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Wetware MediaPublisher Wetware MediaWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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Drawing on a wide range of resources, including the history of philosophy, her role as director of a cognitive neuroscience group, and her Wittgensteinian training at Oxford, Jacobson provides fresh views on representation, concepts, perception, action,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976305200Author Jeffery BeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Beach BooksPublisher Beach BooksWeight(grams) 154g

There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe. Emergence in Mind presents new essays by a distinguished group of philosophers investigating whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620728041Author Veli NdabaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Veli Ndaba - 'The Neuroengineer'Publisher Veli Ndaba - 'The Neuroengineer'Weight(grams)...

Disjunctivism has attracted considerable philosophical attention in recent years: it has been the source of a lively and extended debate spanning the philosophy of perception, epistemology, and the philosophy of action. Adrian Haddock and Fiona...

Psychoanalytic Knowledge presents cutting-edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge in the light of...

This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578040936Author John CraigFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Blue LogicPublisher Blue LogicWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of norms. The book explores connections between the two. The conception of self that informs this book is the...

Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational--we make significant and consistent errors in logical reasoning, probabilistic reasoning, similarity judgements,...

Continuing the old philosophical project of reconciling a scientific view of ourselves with the view of ourselves as agents of free will and meaning, but bringing to this project the latest insights of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychiatry,...

Sketching a new portrait of the human self in this thought-provoking book, leading American philosopher Calvin O. Schrag challenges bleak deconstructionist and postmodernist views of the self as something ceaselessly changing, without origin or purpose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992909109Author Toby PereiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Toby PereiraPublisher Toby PereiraWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289118Author Shane McCorristineFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013290114Author David GamezFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This book has been a long time in the making. Other issues have taken me away from it from time to extended time. But I kept coming back to the problem of other minds. It has remained a great issue, it is much contested still, and it is, after all, elose...

Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious is the only comprehensive, systematic study of Sigmund Freud's philosophy of mind. Freud emerges as a sophisticated philosopher who addresses many of the central questions that concern contemporary philosophers...

In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of...

People do things for reasons. But philosophers have disagreed sharply about how 'reasons explanations' of actions actually work and hence about their implications for human freedom and autonomy. The dominant view in contemporary philosophy is the...

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...

With contributions from leading figures, this book traces the philosophical roots behind contemporary understandings of cognition. The book presents a convincing case for the centrality of philosophy to the history of neuroscience and cognitive...

A useful resource for anybody interested in contemporary thinking on happiness, Philosophy and Happiness encompasses a variety of philosophical traditions and draws from empirical work in psychology and economics to answer some of the oldest, and most...

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 9780692998380Author Maurice Antione LouishommeFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Maurice LouishommePublisher Maurice LouishommeWeight(grams) 354g

Some mental events are conscious, some are unconscious. What is the difference between the two? Uriah Kriegel offers the following answer: whatever else they may represent, conscious mental states always represent themselves (whereas unconscious ones do...

New Essays on Singular Thought presents ten new, specially written essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and perception: the nature of our thought about the external world. Is our thought about objects in the world always...

This collection of essays by eminent philosopher Fred Dretske brings together work on the theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind spanning thirty years. The two areas combine to lay the groundwork for a naturalistic philosophy of mind. The fifteen...

This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capacities are innate or inborn: native to the mind rather than acquired. Fiona Cowie argues that this view...

This book offers arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology, a view which Ratcliffe suggests is a theoretically motivated abstraction. His alternative account draws on phenomenology,...

If there is one value that seems beyond reproach in modernity, it is that of the self and the terms that cluster around it, such as self-esteem, self-confidence and self-respect. It is not clear, however, that all those who invoke the self really know...

First published in 1976, this book presents a view of language as a matter of systematic communicative behaviour. Professor Bennett discusses the problems involved in topics such as teleology, belief and intention, form and content, meaning, convention,...

Dodd explains that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation between true thought and fact is identity, not correspondence. Facts are not complexes of worldly entities which make thoughts true; they are merely true thoughts. The...

Quine and Davidson are among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Their influence on contemporary philosophy is second to none, and their impact is also strongly felt in disciplines such as linguistics and psychology. This book is devoted to...

Integrating continental and Anglo-American traditions, the author exposes empathy as the foundation of the being-with-one-another of human beings. The interpretation of empathy is applied to story telling, literature, and self psychology, rescuing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837167084Author Paul E. PfuetzeFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This volume investigates the neglected topic of mental action, and shows its importance for the metaphysics, epistemology, and phenomenology of mind. Twelve specially written essays address such questions as the following: Which phenomena should we count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915138296Author Maurice NedoncelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick Publications

An introduction to the philosophy of mind - a core component of the undergraduate philosophy curriculum - tailored to meet the needs of students new to the subject. Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions...