Philosophy of Mind

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...

In Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition, Matthew Owen argues that despite its nonphysi...

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...