Mind & Body

Jerry A. Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is...

Can we reach the psychotic subject in his or her delusion? Psychopathological theorists often try to find a way to characterise this subject's inner predicament so that their opaque utterances and actions will now rationally hang together. In this...

Schizophrenia arguably is the most troubling, puzzling, and complex mental illness. No single discipline is equipped to understand it. Though schizophrenia has been investigated predominately from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological...

Much of what we say is never said aloud. It occurs only silently, as inner speech. We chastise, congratulate, joke, and generate endless commentary, all without making a sound. This distinctively human ability to create public language in the privacy of...

Some psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the processes that constitute them. Others cannot be explained in that way. In Attention is Cognitive Unison Christopher Mole gives a precise account of the metaphysical...

As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971367128Author Peter, B. RaabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Trivium PublicationsPublisher Trivium PublicationsWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm)...

In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To...

Walmsley offers a succinct introduction to major philosophical issues in artificial intelligence for advanced students of philosophy of mind, cognitive science and psychology. Whilst covering essential topics, it also provides the student with the chance...

What do you do when you're not asleep and when you're not eating? You're most likely waiting—to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time...

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...

Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental representations-have been the...

Use insights from Kierkegaard to explore contemporary problems of self, time, narrative and death.

Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the empirical support for the externalist account of intentionality.

A comparative and critical introduction to influential theories of consciousness developed in the Indian tradition.

A comparative and critical introduction to influential theories of consciousness developed in the Indian tradition.

We divide the mind into a series of distinct faculties, such as 'long-term memory', 'vision', 'consciousness', or 'perception'. Are these categories good ones? Could they be improved? This book draws on philosophical research on natural kinds to answer...

The first volume to uncover the forgotten contributions of a significant philosopher, Alexander Bain (1818-1903) who was once Britain's greatest philosopher of mind and influenced the work of John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, William James, and Charles...

Emotions are intrinsically linked to our forms of life-the unique, shared ways of being and acting that shape our identity.This book redefines emotions as embodied actions, rather than mere internal states. By taking an ontological approach, Daniel Rueda...

This book serves as a gentle primer on the philosophy of mind for those wishing to directly explore the strange subjective aspects of psychedelics, providing the means for novices to get to grips with the mind before disrupting it. The discussion...

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First published in 1922, The Individual and the Community is a simple statement of the principles which underlie human activities, and condition the combined efforts of two or more individuals: with a comparison of human and animal communities, a...

First published in 1952, Thinking in Opposites insists on the need for a carefully thought-out, rather than a merely authoritarian, basis for faith; but also insists that an indispensable preliminary is to know the laws which govern and limit the scope...

First Published in 1969, System, Structure and Experience offers a basic information-flow design capable of accounting for the complex operations of a culturally cognizant and purposive mind consistently with the general relationship of the human...

Current debates about gender identity are fraught with contradictions. Even as we increasingly recognize gender as an assigned category or social convention, we still see it as inherent to who we are, fundamental to our sense of self. But the quest to...

A new, naturalistic theory of consciousness and sensory experience. Philosophers of mind and neuroscientists often debate what they call the hard problem of consciousness, that is, how we might account for qualia-our subjective experiences of phenomena...

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First published in English in 1968, Kierkegaard's Authorship begins with a brief account of the life and meaning of Kierkegaard and concludes with the brief treatment of his relation to multifaceted existentialism. By reviewing the total authorship and...

This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination.The importance of imagination...

The social dimension of human life shapes or constitutes what perception is for us, that is, how we perceptually relate to the world. A Social Enactive Theory of Perception offers a unified study, in the enactivist tradition, of perception and its...

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy.The debate about plant cognition is...

Originally published in 1984, Consciousness and the Unconscious deals with the concept of 'the unconscious' as originally defined by Sigmund Freud, and as subsequently developed, defended and criticized in continental writing at the time. It starts by...

In their collective dimension, memories are fluid-their form and content constantly adjusted by locations, places, generations, cultures, traditions, politics, epistemic authorities, and historical predictabilities.Contrary to the notion of memory as a...

A new, naturalistic theory of consciousness and sensory experience. Philosophers of mind and neuroscientists often debate what they call the hard problem of consciousness, that is, how we might account for qualia-our subjective experiences of phenomena...

First published in 1961, The Moulding of Modern Man discusses views of the nature and boundaries of the Self, its relation to the physical world and to human beings, real and imagined, with reference to procedures training 'space men' to travel alone or...

An entertaining introduction to the clashes between philosophy and AI over the last 70 years, from claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement consciousness, to arguments about cognitive architecture and ChatGPT.Now updated to include the...

This is the first book to investigate the nature and extent of artificial intelligence (AI) suffering risks. It argues that AI suffering risk is a serious near-term concern and analyzes approaches for addressing it.AI systems are currently treated as...

This book is a philosophical investigation of the concepts of honor and authenticity, informed by the paradoxes of the individual-community continuum. To achieve this difficult balancing act, the author refines our concepts of both honor and authenticity...

This book explores the ethical, legal, and rights-related ramifications of the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind Thesis. Focusing on technologies designed to extend our cognitive and mental capacities, it highlights serious threats...

People attribute a self to themselves. The sciences struggle to define what it is and how it comes about. However, they are certain that we have it and need it. For researchers, it is scarcely tangible and thus a tricky problem. The development of strong...