Philosophy of Mind

First published in 1844, Søren Kierkegaards concise treatise identifiedlong before Freudanxiety as a profound human condition, portraying human exi...

We often think of the mind as an inner world. Once, this inner world might have been a spirit or soul - a ghost in the machine, in Gilbert Ryle's m...

What happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? This book is an attempt to address this age-old question within Kant's mature practical p...

Over recent decades, pain has received increasing attention as philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists try to answer deep and difficult qu...

This book argues that moralism is a troublesome emotion of the sort one might seek help with from a psychotherapist. Its focus is on how to disabus...

The self, self-awareness and emotions are central subjects within contemporary philosophy of mind but comparatively little attention has been paid ...

This unique book delves into the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) principlesrooted in scientific knowledge and technological advancement...

A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the bio...

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green...

When graduate students start their studies, they usually have sound knowledge of some areas of philosophy, but the overall map of their knowledge i...

In this book, Hackett introduces the traditional usage of the mapping sentence within quantitative research, reviews its philosophical underpinning...

Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. Few clear answers have emerged, howev...

A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam Jamespsychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seekeris one of those r...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their fines...

Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forw...

The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes concept...

Consciousness and Physicalism: A Defense of a Research Program explores the nature of consciousness and its place in the world, offering a revision...

'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warb...

This collection applies the characterisations of children and childhood made in Deleuze and Guattari's work to concerns that have shaped our idea o...

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This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior. It explores a cluster of related topics at the ...

This is the first collection of essays exclusively devoted to knowledge from non-knowledge and related issues. It features original contributions f...

Kants Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Unity, Representation, and Apperception is a distinctively new reading of the Transcendental Dedu...

Is the mind just a by-product of the brain? Or is mind the fundamental reality, which creates matter? In The Priority of Mind, Keith Ward mounts a ...

This book explores the role of modesty in the thought of Albert Camus. Camusian modesty modestie affirms, against nihilism and absolutism, the n...

This book explores the role of modesty in the thought of Albert Camus. Camusian modesty modestie affirms, against nihilism and absolutism, the n...

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame. More specifically, each chapter focuses on the question of how a culture can di...

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It ta...

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It ta...

This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towar...

This book explores the mysteries of the human brain and the potential of the mind. The peculiarities and infinitude of the mind have been a theme f...

The COVID-19 pandemic, whose consequences will be felt in the long term, can be interpreted as a signal that we have been living in a pandemic age....

Acting for Reasons is about why we do what we do. It's also about how we arrive at an understanding of other people's actions. A traditional view i...