Mind & Body

How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's brilliant guide to reclaiming your right to be idle'Well written, funny and with a scholarly knowledge of the literature of laziness, it is both a book to be enjoyed at leisure and to change lives' Sunday TimesAs Oscar...

Progress in the neurosciences is profoundly changing our conception of ourselves. Contrary to time-honored intuition, the mind turns out to be a complex of brain functions. And contrary to the wishful thinking of some philosophers, there is no stemming...

A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosophy is Hume's Law, which says that you can't get normative conclusions from descriptive premises, or in...

As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a career, we often think we can assess the options by imagining what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939507112Author Mohammad Ali TaheriFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Interuniversal PressPublisher Interuniversal PressWeight(grams)...

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre-and why that's a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692276853Author Richard Schaub PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Florence PressPublisher Florence PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Millions of us suffer from addiction, including psychiatrist and recovering alcoholic Carl Erik Fisher. But where does this centuries-old behaviour come from and how should we treat it? As a young doctor, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529563Author Jonathan WestphalFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 13mm

This anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of the best classical and contemporary readings in metaphysics, as well as substantial editorial material, which set the extracts in context and guide the reader through them. The book is...

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and...

We are creatures of habit, living most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of more or less comfortable routine. But sometimes outside forces compel us to adjust, and sometimes we must make changes ourselves. What happens when change disrupts our...

We have spent decades optimising our waking hours, but what about the precious hours after we doze off (or try to)? The Magic of Sleep tells you everything you've ever wanted to know about sleep but were too tired to ask. As the most active time for our...

Professor and "de facto global therapist" to an ever-growing audience of hundreds of thousands of people builds on national bestseller The Parasitic Mind to argue that happiness is not merely a changeable mood but a process toward which we can strive by...

Building on the groundbreaking research of Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism, Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to consider the significance of extraordinary experiences for our understanding of reality. Currently...

'An excellent book' - Ted Honderich, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London (UCL) Introducing Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history...

N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible...

Humankind is facing monumental challenges-the sustainability of our natural resources, climate change, wealth inequalities, breakdowns in social structures, the impact of artificial intelligence, and of course the threat of pandemics. What we need to...

This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the...

WHAT EXACTLY ARE HALLUCINATIONS? ARE THEY ACTUALLY DOORS TO ANOTHER REALITY? Anthony Peake thinks so. In this stunning new book Peake takes the work of Aldous Huxley and updates it using the latest information from such seemingly unrelated fields as...

Only two species of mammal have a post-reproductive life that lasts longer than their reproductive life: the killer whale, whose elders are able to sniff out food supplies over vast oceanic distances to keep their pods fed, and the Homo sapien. While the...

-- What is consciousness like?-- How can consciousness be achieved?Gary Lachman argues that consciousness is not a result of neurons and molecules, but is actually responsible for them. Meaning, he proposes, is not imported from the outer world, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528771757Author Mary Weeks BurnettFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

'I must apply my self to Experience; as far as that reaches, I may have certain Knowledge, but no farther.' In An Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. Eschewing doctrines of innate...

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An...

A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction A Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book "A deeply insightful and thought-enriching work by one of the most original philosophers writing today. Imagining the End is acutely aware of the danger we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585421817Author Ernest HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620239216Author Jason ShurkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Atlantic Publishing GroupPublisher Atlantic Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

This is a straightforward, elementary textbook for beginning students of philosophy. The general aim is to provide a clear introduction to the main issues arising in the philosophy of mind. Part I discusses the Cartesian dualist view which many find...

Scientific studies show that the mind/body connection has an extraordinary power to heal. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind goes beyond ancient mind/body wisdom and current anti-aging research to show you do not have to grow old. With the passage of time, you...

'His guidance is spot on. Heaven knows, most of us need all the peace we can get' Daily ExpressIncludes a brand new introduction to offer help during a pandemicWhy is 'being happy' such an imperative nowadays? What meaning do people give to happiness? In...

The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed...

The cognitive ability to think about other people's psychological states is known as `mindreading'. This Element critiques assumptions that have been formative in shaping philosophical theories of mindreading: that mindreading is ubiquitous, underpinning...

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.Until the seventeenth century, the human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949706024Author MacKenzie HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Thru PublishingPublisher Thru PublishingWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

If you have ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted or unworthy, this book is for you.Sometimes all it takes is a simple question to awaken the strength and compassion hiding within us. To wake us up to the truth and beauty of who we are. Daily Awakening is a...

Is torturing the innocent OK? Just now something happened: it seemed to you that torturing the innocent is wrong. What kind of mental state were you in? What is its nature? Perhaps you now believe that torturing the innocent is wrong because it just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692111550Author Sylvester McNutt IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Success Is a Choice LLC.Publisher Success Is a Choice LLC.Weight(grams) 336g

Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was...