Philosophy of Mind

Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Meaning develops a new, non-reductionist, response to the sceptical argument about meaning famously developed i...

This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roma...

A little book of comfort for people who are troubled by the way that life is being hollowed out by digital media, populist politics, hyper-capitali...

Are the reasons for which we act the causes of our actions? In the nine essays collected here (including a major historical overview by the editors...

Through the works of key figures in ethics since modernity this book charts a shift from dominant fixated, objective moral systems and the dependen...

This edited volume includes contributions from internationally renowned experts in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It applies his later phil...

A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint...

Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy critically rethinks and extends Hegel's project for systematic philosophy without foundations, engagi...

This book investigates dispositions in grammatical-normative terms through a contrast between a naturalized paradigm and a Wittgenstein-inspired pe...

Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain. This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art reflections on philosophica...

Men's biological clocks may not be ticking loudly, but what about the social clock? Are there benefits to being in-step with social norms for the t...

This book argues that narrative practice does not have a coherent formulation of personhood in the way one finds in other fields, such as psychoana...

Belief is a fundamental concept within many branches of contemporary philosophy and an important subject in its own right. This volume comprises 11...

Why do people enter total institutions places that confine and control them around the clock and how does the experience change them? This book u...

Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or...

Each of the fourteen essays in this volume is directed to some aspect of these two questions: What are the peculiarities of the concepts that we us...

A radical approach to studying the mind. Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reasserts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional...

Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural sci...

An epic exploration of the historical foundations, philosophic and scientific mechanisms of infinite universe cosmology, Mechanisms offers personal...

Drawing on a wide range of resources, including the history of philosophy, her role as director of a cognitive neuroscience group, and her Wittgens...

The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy (including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the work of the Aristot...

Using innovative empirical data, this book presents a unique approach to looking at moments, exploring the deeper meanings of why memories stand ou...

The Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction. * Writ...

A collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of action and agency. Each ...

A collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of action and agency. Each ...

From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Co...

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldnt be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it i...

This book proposes a new angle on the controversy over evolution as a biological theory, creation as a theological/worldview doctrine and evolution...

What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merit...

This collection is devoted to Gilbert Ryle's philosophy of mind and language. It features essays from prominent scholars on the topics of category ...

Based upon Ajit Maan's groundbreaking theory of Internarrative Identity, this collection focuses upon redefining self, slave narrative, the black C...

Williamson explains, defends, and applies Kant's theory of emotion. Looking primarily to the Anthropology and the Metaphysics of Morals, she situat...

In Psychosocial aspects of niqab wearing Nina Bosankic explores the various motives which lead young women living in post-conflict Bosnia and Herze...

A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes the scandal of empath...

From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing.Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbe...