Philosophy of Mind

When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, his comments that a judge should have the heart, the empathy, to recognize wha...

Our sense-making capabilities and the relationship between our individual and collective intelligence and the comprehensibility of the world is bot...

Leading scholars discuss whether some of the main tenets or theses that are currently or traditionally ascribed to Wittgenstein are still both theo...

A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together t...

Who are we in simulated worlds? Will experiencing worlds that are not 'actual' change our ways of structuring thought? Can virtual worlds open up n...

Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification product...

Can neuroscience help explain the first-person perspective? The Science of Subjectivity delves into the nature of experience, arguing that unconsci...

What is 'technology'? What does it help us to do? What does it force us to consider about our experience of being in the world? In Challenging the...

How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demo...

How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demo...

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think and I cant stop myself from thinking. Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaWriting the Min...

This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mytholog...

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Henri Bergson is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and his work is undergoing a renaissance of interest. This collection...

'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy kingdom' Telegraph'An impressi...

'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy kingdom' Telegraph'An impressi...

Have you ever sat and watched a plant? The very idea itself might seem strange. We like to watch things that move, that do something. But in fact, ...

In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-infor...

This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material emb...

This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an inv...

This book brings together philosophers, social psychologists and social scientists to approach contemporary social reality from the viewpoint of so...

In this ground-breaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark turns a common view of the human mind upside down. In stark opposition...

Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival arguments that purport to show that data collected from osten...

'Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe ... [A] brave and honest book' The New York Times Boo...

Integrating continental and Anglo-American traditions, the author exposes empathy as the foundation of the being-with-one-another of human beings. ...

Examining the revival of Bergsonism for phenomenology, leading scholars of both areas inaugurate a dialogue long overdue. By assessing phenomenolog...

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qual...

Adopting a friendly but critical approach to the talking therapies, this book places psychotherapy in a social and historical context, exploring it...

The volume focusses on the ethical dimensions of the technological scaffold embedding human thought and action, which has been brought to attention...