Philosophy of Mind

Probably no single thinker since Jesus has influenced the thoughts and lives of more people living in the Western world today than Sigmund Freud.  ...

This book tells the story of idealism in modern philosophy, from the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. Paul Guyer and Rolf-Peter...

Introducing a new typology based on Power, Eros, Matter and Spirit as the motivations that define human attitudes and behaviour, the book outlines ...

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing...

Despite the considerable attention the topic of luck has received in ethics and epistemology, very little has been published in the philosophical l...

The most important questions in life are questions about what we should do and what we should believe. The first kind of question has received cons...

Winner of the 2023 Business Book Award for Wellness and Wellbeing 'This book is exactly what we need in this moment. With so many pulls and strains...

Breaking one's dieting rule or resolution to quit smoking, procrastination, convenient lies, even the failure of entire nations to follow through w...

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual...

Scott Sturgeon presents an original account of mental states and their dynamics. He develops a detailed story of coarse- and fine-grained mental st...

How should thinkers cope with uncertainty? What makes their degrees of belief rational, and how should they reason about uncertain matters? In epis...

Perception and intuition are our basic sources of knowledge about the concrete world around us, and more abstract matters such as mathematics, meta...

When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she encounters a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, ...

In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the more than human in the context of move...

How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the ...

A Unified Treatment of Moore's Paradox is the culmination of a decades-long engagement with Moore's paradox by the world's leading authority on the...

This book presents a study of the various feelings of awe and wonder experienced by astronauts during space flight. It summarizes the results of tw...

This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory per...

The biological functions debate is a perennial topic in the philosophy of science. In the first full-length account of the nature and importance of...

This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil...

This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil...

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving t...

Mindfulness is celebrated everywhereespecially in health psychology and spiritual practices, but also in the arts, business, education, environment...

From the invention of the alphabet to the explosion of the internet, Dominic Wyse takes us on a unique journey into the process of writing. Startin...

Is the human mind uniquely nonphysical or even spiritual, such that divine intentions can meet physical realities? As scholars in science and relig...

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarreand why thats a good thingDo we li...

Ernst Tugendhat's major work, Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die sprachanalytische Philosophie (1976), was translated into English in 1982. Although...

The scenario of the brain in a vat, first aired thirty-five years ago in Hilary Putnam's classic paper, has been deeply influential in philosophy o...

This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented as the book follows the rati...

Religion was a constant theme throughout Paul Ricoeurs long career, and yet he never wrote a full-length treatment of the topic. In this important ...

Self Definition argues that sex, gender, and race are constructions by the ineffable self as it seeks to define its possibilities free of dominatio...

Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kants theory of imagination. In contrast with more traditional th...

One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we unders...

In these exquisite, delicate, succinct poems Susanna Enso Huang shines a light on the natural world with precision and wonder. Her writing draws on...