Philosophy of Mind

In recent research, dual-process theories of cognition have been the primary model for explaining moral judgment and reasoning. These theories unde...

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert m...

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert m...

Downward causation plays a fundamental role in many theories of metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It is strictly connected with many topics in ph...

In recent years the psychology of reasoning has undergone radical change, which can only be seen as a Kuhn-style scientific revolution. This shift ...

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason. The first part of the book introduces some popular ideas and problems c...

The empirical study of consciousness is in constant progress. New ideas and approaches arise, methods are being debated and refined, and experiment...

This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know w...

In this set of insightful essays, the concept of the psychological humanities is defined and explored. A clear rationale is provided for its necess...

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...

According to epiphenomenalism, our behavior is caused by events in our brains that also cause our mentality. This resulting mentality reflects our ...

This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.It focuses on the bur...

This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology, in both systematic and historical dimensions. While existing research l...

This book presents an interpretation of Kants Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kants philosophy together with those of t...

We spend a lot of time thinking about other people: their motivations, what they are thinking, why they want particular things. Sometimes we are aw...

Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? Thi...

Conscious Action Theory provides a logical unification between the spirit and the material, by identifying reality as an event that processes perso...

It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical iss...

Thought insertion is the delusion that one's thoughts are not one's own, which causes people to believe that external agents have inserted ideas or...

Most accounts of bodily self-awareness focus on its sensory and agentive dimensions, tracking the origins of our special relationship with our own ...

Essays on The Souls Logical Life in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich: Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority is the second collection of essays ...

This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing pl...

Mindmatics invites readers into a captivating exploration where the boundaries between mind and mathematics dissolve. Professor Neuman delves into ...

This is a book about the moral-existential nature of, and the desire inscribed in, the deadlocks generated by our attempts to ground and exhaustive...

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain explores a fundamental cornerstone of human consciousness; how recognizing ourselves leads to a better understa...

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. We imagine that we are both in control of an...

Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescali...

This book presents a novel pluralist strategy for answering Molyneuxs 300+ year old conundrum: Would a person, born blind but given sight, identify...

Die Frage nach den Denkfähigkeiten von Maschinen beschäftigt die Menschheit, seit Turing 1950 diese Frage das erste Mal aufwarf. Um das Verhältnis ...