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Trade Review'Future commentators on Boethius cannot safely neglect Magee's book.' Sten Ebbesen, Vivarium, 1991. 'M. brings an impressive amount of learning and care to a large number of passages he has culled from a wide range of texts...a useful source-book...' Wolfgang Mann, Gnomon, 1993.

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Book SynopsisIn Vulnerability and Critical Theory, Estelle Ferrarese identifies contemporary developments on the theme of vulnerability within critical theory while also seeking to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of the political and demonstrates how it is socially produced. Philosophies that take vulnerability as a moral object contribute to rendering the political, as the site of a specific power and action, foreign to vulnerability and the notion of recognition offered by critical theory does not correct this deficit. Instead, Ferrarese argues that vulnerability, as susceptibility to a harmful event, is above all a breach of normative expectations. She demonstrates that these expectations are not mental phenomena but are situated between subjects and must even be conceived as institutions. On this basis she argues that the link between the political and vulnerability cannot be reduced to the institutional implementation of moral principles. Rather she seeks to rethink the political by taking vulnerability as the starting point and thereby understands the political as simultaneously referring to the advent of a world, the emergence of a relation, and the appearance of a political subject.

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses the role of embodiment in the reevaluation of aesthetics as a process of bodily mediated meaning-making. It focuses on the bodily basis of aesthetic appreciation from an evolutionary point of view, on the bodily physical structures such as the brain involved in perception, on aesthetic experience and appreciation, on the role of physiological responses in experiencing the objects of the environment aesthetically, on the role of one's own body in motion in the engagement with the environment, on somatic responses and the experience of meaning, on the pre-reflective experience of the body, on the role of the interplay of different types of physical and sensory activities in the process of education to art appreciation.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Introduction Alfonsina Scarinzi The evolutionary roots of aesthetics: an approach-avoidance look at curvature preference, Enric Munar Gerardo Gómez-Puerto, Antoni Gomila A neuro-evolutionary mechanism for aesthetic phenomenology, Joshua Fost Interaction of perception and imagination in pictorial space experience, Joanna Ganczarek Vezio Ruggieri, Daniele Nardi, Marta Olivetti Belardinelli Effortless Bodies and Beyond, Barbara Gail Montero The Dancing Body and the Revelation of Prepersonal Existence through Art, Xavier Escribano How to perceive oneself perceiving? Gardens, movement and the semiotics of embodiment, Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk From Film Studies to Interaction Design-An Emergent Aesthetics View, Xin Xia, Nimish Biloria, Bernhard Hommel Spinoza, the Philosopher Craftsman: Understanding the World through Painting and Process, Paul Uhlmann Index

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Book SynopsisCognitive existentialism is a version of hermeneutic philosophy. The volume provides a summation of the critical approaches to this version. All essays are engaged in probing the value of universal hermeneutics. Drawing on various conceptions developed in analytical and Continental traditions, the authors explore the interpretative dimensions of scientific inquiry. They try to place the projects of their investigations in historical, socio-cultural, and political contexts. The task of extending hermeneutics to the natural sciences is an initiative of much relevance to the dialogue between the scientific and humanistic culture. A special aspect of this dialogue, addressed by all authors, is the promotion of interpretive reflexivity in both kinds of academic culture.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The Road to Cognitive Existentialism, EMIL LENSKY ONE On the Status of Theoretical Objects in Science according to Cognitive Existentialism, ARVIN VOS TWO Theory and Theoretical Objects in an Existential/Hermeneutic Conception of Science, ROBERT CREASE THREE Practice Theories: Scientific Charms, Divine Spells, EVALDAS JUOZELIS FOUR Rejecting Cartesian Cuts: Choosing Sellars over Ginev’s Heidegger, FABIO GIRONI FIVE Scientific Practice and Modes of Epistemic Existence, JEFF KOCHAN SIX The Unfinished Project of Cognitive Existentialism, DIMITRI GINEV ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisOrdering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 investigates how emotions were conceptualised and practised in the medieval and early modern period, as they ordered systems of thought and practice—from philosophy and theology, music and literature, to science and medicine. Analysing discursive, psychic and bodily dimensions of emotions as they were experienced, performed and narrated, authors explore how emotions were understood to interact with more abstract intellectual capacities in producing systems of thought, and how these key frameworks of the medieval and early modern period were enacted by individuals as social and emotional practices, acts and experiences of everyday life. Contributors are: Han Baltussen, Susan Broomhall, Louis C. Charland, Louise D’Arcens, Raphaële Garrod, Yasmin Haskell, Danijela Kambaskovic, Clare Monagle, Juanita Feros Ruys, François Soyer, Robert Weston, Carol J. Williams, R.S. White, and Spencer E. Young.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Hearts and Minds: Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100–1800 Susan Broomhall 1. Nine Angry Angels: Order, Emotion, and the Angelic and Demonic Hierarchies in the High Middle Ages Juanita Feros Ruys 2. Christ’s Masculinity: Homo and Vir in Peter Lombard’s Sentences Clare Monagle 3. Modes and Manipulation: Music, the State, and Emotion Carol J. Williams 4. Avarice, Emotions, and the Family in Thirteenth-Century Moral Discourse Spencer E. Young 5. Affective Memory Across Time: The Emotive City of Christine de Pizan Louise D’Arcens 6. Nicholas of Modruš’s De consolatione (1465–1466): A New Approach to Grief Management Han Baltussen 7. Hearts on Fire: Compassion and Love in Nicolas Houel’s Traité de la Charité chréstienne Susan Broomhall 8. Living Anxiously: The Senses, Society and Morality in Pre-Modern England Danijela Kambaskovic 9. Conceptual Eclecticism and Ethical Prescription in Early Modern Jesuit Discourses about Affects: Suárez and Caussin on Maternal Love Raphaële Garrod 10. Anatomy of a Passion: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale as Case Study Louis C. Charland and R.S. White 11. Arts and Games of Love: Genre, Gender and Special Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetry Yasmin Haskell 12. Androgyny and the Fear of Demonic Intervention in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula: Ecclesiastical and Popular Responses François Soyer 13. Medical Effects and Affects: The Expression of Emotions in Early Modern Patient–Physician Correspondence Robert Weston Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEvolution and Human Culture argues that values, beliefs, and practices are expressions of individual and shared moral sentiments. Much of our cultural production stems from what in early hominins was a caring tendency, both the care to share and a self-care to challenge others. Topics cover prehistory, mind, biology, morality, comparative primatology, art, and aesthetics. The book is valuable to students and scholars in the arts, including moral philosophers, who would benefit from reading about scientific developments that impact their fields. For biologists and social scientists the book provides a window into how scientific research contributes to understanding the arts and humanities. The take-home point is that culture does not transcend nature; rather, culture is an evolved moral behavior.Trade Review"Evolution and Human Culture is a milestone piece bringing together philosophy, the sciences and the arts in an original and stimulating read. Culture, art, morality and evolution – a striking unification that is unique to this work." – Kathryn Francis, Fellow, CogNovo Institute, Plymouth University, UK "Evolution and Human Culture provides a very well written account of evolutionary theory across the spectrum of relevant disciplines ... addressing ... the most challenging questions that face humankind." – Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Ph.D., Professor of drama and consciousness studies, University of Lincoln, UK "Between the age-old outposts maintained by the humanities and the biological sciences lies a vast wilderness where culture and biology form a dense and inter-tangled forest. If you’ve had the feeling that you need to leave your safe and comfortable outpost and venture into this forest in order to truly understand the unique role that culture has played in the evolution of the human species, Gregory F. Tague’s Evolution & Human Culture is your map of that wilderness. A native of the humanities but also a frequent envoy to the biological sciences, Professor Tague has mapped out the paths taken by anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who have traveled where human culture and human biology intersect. Different disciplines have discovered different areas of this biocultural landscape and have returned with different ideas; Evolution & Human Culture provides an impressively-complete account of these diverse explorations. An intrepid explorer himself, Professor Tague provides his own take on the importance of culture to human evolution — that culture emerged as a means of creating and maintaining the norms that enable us to be so highly cooperative — but only after laying out the full spectrum of perspectives so clearly that he enables his reader to entertain interpretations differing from his own." – Christopher X J. Jensen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolution, Pratt InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One. Prehistory and Mind Chapter Two. Biology and Morality as Interrelated Chapter Three. Culture and Evolution Chapter Four. Art and Aesthetics as Moral Cognition Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIt explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary practice esp.1740-1920. The history of vitalism is considered in the context of contemporary discourses on radical reality (or deep naturalism).Trade Review“The Early History of Embodied Cognition unquestionably advances Romantic literary scholarship.” - Gabriel Finkelstein, University of Chicago US in Modern, Vol. 108 No. 1 pp. 200-201.Table of ContentsPreface Establishing Parameters: Lebenskraft and Artifact 1. John A. McCarthy (Vanderbilt U), “Introduction: Life Matters” 2. Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth (Allegheny College PA), “Pneuma—Sexuality—Sex Difference: From Arabic to European Philosophy and Medical Practice” 3. Ingo Uhlig (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), “Ordnung des Lebendigen. Naturgeschichtliche Malereien im Kabinett der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle” 4. Brian T. McInnis (USMA, West Point, NY). “Haller, Unzer, and Science as Process” Blood, Nerves, Resonance 5. James Kennaway (Newcastle, UK), “Lebenskraft, the Body and Will Power: The Life Force in German Musical Aesthetics” 6. Alexis B. Smith (U of Oregon), “Ritter’s Musical Blood Flow Through Hoffmann’s Kreisler” 7. Alice Kuzniar (U of Waterloo, CAN), “Romantic Vitalism and Homeopathy’s Law of Minimum” 8. Ann C. Schmiesing (U of Colorado, Boulder). “Folklore and Physiology: The Vitality of Blood in the Works of the Brothers Grimm” Fitness and Fitting In 9. Nicholas Saul (U of Durham, UK). “Fitness, Nerves, the Degenerate Body and Identity: Radical Reality and Modernity in Max Nordau’s Aesthetics and Fiction” 10. Stephanie Hilger (U of Illinois, Urbana/Champain). “No Body? Radical Gender in Memoirs of a Man’s Maiden Years (1907)” 11. Cate Reilly (Princeton U). “Naturphilosophie and Murder: The Limits of Scientific Explanation in Döblin’s Die beiden Freundinnen” The Lebenskraft-Debate Recast: The Posthuman and Radical Mediation 12. Heather Sullivan (Trinity U TX). “Agency in the Anthropocene: Goethe, Radical Reality, and the New Materialisms” 13. Monica Ledoux (Vanderbilt U), “Lebenskraft, Radical Reality, and Occidental Medicine: How Science is Leading us back to a Holistic View” Epiloque: John A. McCarthy, “Lebenskraft Legacies” Select Bibliography Notes on the Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature Prakash Mondal attempts to demonstrate that language can reveal the hidden logical texture of diverse types of mentality in non-humans, contrary to popular belief. The widely held assumption in mainstream cognitive science is that language being humanly unique introduces an anthropomorphic bias in investigations into the nature of other possible minds. This book turns this around by formulating a lattice of mental structures distilled from linguistic structures constituting the cognitive building blocks of an ensemble of biological entities/beings. This turns out to have surprising consequences for machine cognition as well. Challenging mainstream views, this book will appeal to cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, linguists and also cognitive ethologists.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction  1.1 On Minds and Mental Structures  1.2 A Note on the Methodology  1.3 Why Natural Language?  1.4 Summary 2 Natural Language and the Linguistic Foundations of Mind  2.1 Language as a Window onto Thought and Reasoning  2.2 Language as Conceptualization  2.3 Language as a Mental Tool  2.4 The Expressive Power of Natural Language and Ineffability  2.5 Summary 3 Possible Minds from Natural Language  3.1 Linguistic Structures and Mental Structures  3.2 Mental Structures and the Forms of Possible Minds  3.3 Summary 4 Natural Language, Machines and Minds  4.1 Machines and Minds  4.2 Computation and Natural Language  4.3 Summary 5 Possible Minds and the Cognitive  5.1 Summary 6 Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Sequential Imperative William Edmondson explains how deep study of linguistics – from phonetics to pragmatics – can be the basis for understanding the organization of behaviour in any organism with a brain. The work demonstrates that Cognitive Science needs to be anchored in a linguistic setting. Only then can Cognitive Scientists reach out to reconsider the nature of consciousness and to appreciate the functionality of all brains. The core functionality of the brain – any brain, any species, any time – is delivery and management of the unavoidable bi-directional transformation between brain states and activity – the Sequential Imperative. Making it all work requires some general cognitive principles and close attention to detail. The book sets out the case in broad terms but also incorporates significant detail where necessary.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1: The Sequential Imperative and the Functional Specification of the Brain Introduction to Part 1 1 The Sequential Imperative – I 2 The Sequential Imperative – II 3 General Cognitive Principles Part 2: Serving the Sequential Imperative Introduction to Part 2 4 Structure in Language 5 Non-linear Phonology and Beyond 6 Building a Model Part 3: Behaviour and Evolution – on and off Planet Introduction to Part 3 7 Management of the Sequential Imperative 8 Issues in Evolution and Language 9 Language and Consciousness: What is it like to be an ETI? Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while denying it to nonhuman animals. As Oelze shows, this narrative fails to capture the depth and diversity of the medieval debate. Although many thinkers, from Albert the Great to John Buridan, did indeed hold that nonhuman animals lack rational faculties, some granted them the ability to engage in certain rational processes such as judging, reasoning, or employing prudence. There is thus a whole spectrum of positions to be discovered, many of which show interesting parallels with contemporary theories of animal rationality.Trade Review"Cette approche, à la fois historique et systématique, de la rationalité animale aboutit à une étude passionnante, dont le propos, agrémenté de nombreux exemples, allie la clarté à l’élégance. Nul doute que cette étude maîtrisée d’un corpus et d’un réseau de questions originaux constitue une contribution majeure à l’histoire de la philosophie médiévale". Véronique Decaix, Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale, 21 (3), (2020).Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 What are and Why Study Later Medieval Theories of Animal Rationality? 2 How to Study Later Medieval Theories? 3 Structure and Key Questions Part 1: Animals and Rationality in the Middle Ages Introduction to Part 1 4 The Role of Animals in the Middle Ages 5 Animal Souls and Sensory Cognition 6 Human Souls and the Triad of Intellectual Operations 7 Grey Areas Part 2: Universal Cognition and Concept Formation Introduction to Part 2 8 Estimation, Conceptualisation, and Categorisation (Thomas Aquinas) 9 Intentions and Quiddities (Albertus Magnus) 10 Elevated Intentions and Common Forms (Pseudo-Peter of Spain) 11 Vague Particulars as Universals (Roger Bacon) 12 Universal Desire and Experience (John Buridan) 13 General Mental Representations (Peter of John Olivi) Part 3: Judging Introduction to Part 3 14 The Idea of Sensory Judgments 15 Natural Judgments (Thomas Aquinas) 16 Erroneous Judgments and Differences in Estimation (Albertus Magnus) 17 Reflective and Experimental Judgments (Peter of John Olivi, John Buridan) 18 The Ascription of Judgments and the Problem of Anthropomorphism (William of Ockham, Adam Wodeham, Gregory of Rimini) Part 4: Reasoning Introduction to Part 4 19 Quasi-Reasoning (Thomas Aquinas, Gregory of Rimini, John Duns Scotus) 20 Quasi-Reasoning and Cogitation (Roger Bacon) 21 Imperfect Argumentations and Practical Syllogisms (Albertus Magnus) 22 Material Souls and Degrees of Reasoning (John Buridan, Nicole Oresme) Part 5: Prudence Introduction to Part 5 23 Memory vs. Recollection (Albertus Magnus) 24 Incomplete and Complete Memory (Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon) 25 Foresight and Provision (Albertus Magnus, Bonaventure) 26 Quasi-Foresight and Quasi-Hope (Thomas Aquinas) 27 Operating for and towards the Future (Roger Bacon, Peter of John Olivi) 28 Imperfect or Particular Prudence (Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas) 29 Prudence by Analogy (Giles of Rome, John Duns Scotus) Part 6: Rationality without Reason? Introduction to Part 6 30 Medieval and Contemporary Theories: The Differences 31 Medieval and Contemporary Theories: The Commonalities 32 Towards a Classification: Differentialist and Assimilationist Explanations 33 Room for Rationality or Rationality without Reason Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisNeuroscientists often consider free will to be an illusion. Contrary to this hypothesis, the contributions to this volume show that recent developments in neuroscience can also support the existence of free will. Firstly, the possibility of intentional consciousness is studied. Secondly, Libet’s experiments are discussed from this new perspective. Thirdly, the relationship between free will, causality and language is analyzed. This approach suggests that language grants the human brain a possibility to articulate a meaningful personal life. Therefore, human beings can escape strict biological determinism.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  The Authors  Introduction  Bernard Feltz, Marcus Missal and Andrew Sims Part 1: Intention and Consciousness  1 Perceptual Decision-Making and Beyond: Intention as Mental Imagery  Andrew Sims and Marcus Missal  2 Dual-System Theory and the Role of Consciousness in Intentional Action  Markus Schlosser  3 When Do Robots Have Free Will? Exploring the Relationships between (Attributions of) Consciousness and Free Will  Eddy Nahmias, Corey Allen and Bradley Loveall Part 2: Libet-Style Experiments  4 Free Will and Neuroscience: Decision Times and the Point of No Return  Alfred Mele  5 Why Libet-Style Experiments Cannot Refute All Forms of Libertarianism  László Bernáth  6 Actions and Intentions  Sofia Bonicalzi Part 3: Causality and Free Will  7 The Mental, the Physical, and the Informational  Anna Drozdzewska  8 Free Will, Language, and the Causal Exclusion Problem  Bernard Feltz and Olivier Sartenaer  Index of Authors  Index of Concepts

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Book SynopsisThe Neo-Kantian philosopher Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Lacan are two key figures in the so-called medial turn in philosophy: the notion that any form of access to reality is mediated by symbols (images, words, signifiers). This explains why the theories of both philosophers merit a description in their own unique idioms, as well as having their respective basic tenets compared. It will be argued that, rather surprisingly, these tenets turn out be complementary - actually correcting each other – based on their shared notion of man as an animal symbolicum. Its fruitfulness will be substantiated for a limited number of topics within the humanities: perception, language, politics and ethics, and mental disorder, all to be considered from this perspective.Table of ContentsIntroduction  1 An Outline of the Human Condition  1.1 Three Levels of the Human Condition: From Intentionality to Structure  1.2 Three Types of Hermeneutics: From Signification to Signifier  1.3 Three Levels of the Human Condition Revisited  1.4 Application in Psychopathology  1.5An Inquiry into Possibility: The Capacity to Symbolise  2 Cassirer  2.1 A Return to Kant  2.2 Cassirer’s Ambition  2.3 Cassirer and Heidegger  2.4 The Mind and Critical Idealism  2.5 The Concept of a Symbolic Form  2.6 Myth and Religion, Language, Science  2.7 Symbolisation: Three Sources and Three Modes  2.8 A Symbolic Form in the Making?  3 Lacan  3.1 A Return to Freud  3.2 The Autonomy of the Symbolic Order  3.3 The Dialectics of Desire  3.4 Differential Character of the Language Sign  3.5 Symbolic Identification  3.6 The Real: Three Domains, Three Forms  3.7 The Later Lacan  3.8 Joyce and Lacan  3.9 Substance or Function  3.10 Lacan and Cassirer Juxtaposed  3.11 Lacan and Cassirer Put into a Mutual Relationship  4 Variations on the Theme of Symbolisation  4.1 The Human Condition and the Symbolic Function  4.2 The Medial Turn and Its Philosophy  4.3 Symbolisation in Perception  4.4 Homo Symbolicus: An Evolutionary Perspective  4.5 The Symbolic Order from A Normative Perspective: Politics, Law, Ethics  4.6 Shades of Symbolisation: The Psychic Disorder  4.7 One and the Same Theme? Bibliography Annex: Diagram of the Symbolising Process Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisCurrent research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the author argues that loneliness is actively constituted by acts of reflexive self-consciousness (Kant) and transcendent intentionality (Husserl) and is, therefore, unavoidable. This work employs a historical, conceptual, and interdisciplinary approach (philosophy, psychology, literature, sociology, etc.) criticizing both psychoanalysis and neuroscience. The book pits materialism, mechanism, determinism, empiricism, phenomenalism, behaviorism, and the neurosciences against dualism, both subjective and objective idealism, rationalism, freedom, phenomenology, and existentialism. It offers a dynamic of loneliness, whose spontaneous subconscious sources undercuts the unconscious of Freud and the “computerism” of the neurosciences by challenging their claims to be predictive sciences.Trade Review"Mijuskovic possesses the unique combination of academic, clinical, and professional experience to cross the aisle between philosophers and therapists.[...] Philosophers of mind, psychologists and clinical psychiatrists should all consider Mijuskovic’s thesis in its unique combination of metaphysical dualism and existentialist psychology." - Michael D. Bobo (Norco College), in: Philosophy in Review 40:1 (2020). "Building on his prior work, Mijuscovic utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to present a metaphysical subjective dualism in favor of a “substantive theory of the self and the innate quality of loneliness” (Mijuscovic, 2019, p.3)." - Joshua Marcus Cragle (University of Amsterdam), in: Journal of Thought (Fall 2019). "The thesis of Mijuskovic’s study is that the central motive of human conduct is the fear of aloneness. ... His argument develops in a surprising and improbable direction: Whereas most thinkers have regarded loneliness as a secondary and derived condition, stemming from the interruption of an original union with others, he feels that the ultimate and primordial human state is that of being alone and that relatedness to others is the secondary formation. ... I would suggest that by locating loneliness in the heart of universal human nature, he has transformed the feeling of alienated solitude into the most deeply shared of all human experience." - George E. Atwood, “All Men Are Together in Their Loneliness,” in: Contemporary Psychology "The book is undoubtedly the best treatment of loneliness from the philosophical perspective and is likely to remain so for a long time. Furthermore, the philosophical perspective, at this time and possibly for the indefinite future, may offer the most understanding (versus “explanation”) of the subject. Professor Mijuskovic has ably defended his thesis that man’s loneliness is made possible by the reflexive nature of consciousness. He illustrates, through numerous philosophical arguments and literary examples, that man’s aloneness is the primary truth of human existence. The work is contemporary in its ‘in touchness’ with man’s predicament but at the same time demolishes the trite and falsely comforting contention that loneliness is a problem of recent civilization. It is rich enough in reference material to serve as an excellent resource for any student of man." - Joseph Hartog, editor of the Anatomy of LonelinessTable of ContentsPart 1 1 Introduction to the Simplicity Argument and its Relation to Previous Studies 2 The Simplicity Argument: Meanings, Relations, and Space 3 The Simplicity Argument and the Freedom of Consciousness 4 The Simplicity Argument and Immanent Time-Consciousness 5 The Simplicity Argument and the Quality of Consciousness 6 Neuromania and Neo-Phrenology versus Consciousness Part 2 7 The Simplicity Argument versus a Materialist Theory of Mind Part 3 8 The Bicameral Mind, the Abyss, and Underworlds 9 Loneliness: In Harm’s Way 10 Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existentialism By Way of an Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise this volume propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms. Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory explores the complex nuances, paradoxes, and aporias related to the plethora of artistic mediums in which the human imagination manifests itself. As a fundamental attribute of our species, which other organisms also seem to possess with varying degrees of sophistication, imagination is the very fabric of what it means to be human into which everything is woven. This edited collection demonstrates that imagination is the resin that binds human civilization together for better or worse.Trade Review'At the end of this wonderful journey through the theories of imagination and the various types of imaginaries, one is certainly fascinated by a polysemic view of the concept of imagination. Moser and Sukla have managed to find the best way to organise and channel a multitude of expert opinions towards a single goal: the revival of interest in the subject of imagination and its profound meaning in human life.' - Carlo Alessandro Caccia, in: enthymema (2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Introduction Part 1: Historical Imagination and Judgement  1 Imagination and Art in Classical Greece and Rome   David Konstan  2 Poetic Imagination and Cultural Memory in Greek History and Mythology  Claude Calame  3 History, Imagination and the Narrative of Loss: Philosophical Questions about the Task of Historical Judgment   Allen Speight Part 2: Gendered Imagination  4 Imagining the Captive Amazon: Myth, Art, and History   Adrienne Mayor  5 Gender and Imagination: A Feminist Analysis of Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men<   Reshmi Mukherjee Part 3: Imagination and Ethics  6 Psychoanalysis, Imagination, and Imaginative Resistance: A Genesis of the Post-freudian World   Carol Steinberg Gould  7 Craving Sameness, Accepting Difference: Imaginative Possibilities for Solidarity and Social Justice   Chandra Kavanagh  8 The Importance of Imagination/Phantasia for the Moral Psychology of Virtue Ethics   David Collins  9 The Infanticidal Logic of Mimesis as Horizon of the Imaginable   A. Samuel Kimball  10 The Relationship Between Imagination and Christian Prayer   Michel Dion Part 4: Phenomenological and Epistemological Perspectives  11 The Work Texts Do: Toward a Phenomenology of Imagining Imaginatively   Charles Altieri  12 Conceiving and Imagining: Examples and Lessons   Jody Azzouni  13 The Dance of Perception: The Role of the Imagination in Simone Weil’s Early Epistemology   Warren Heiti  14 One Imagination or Many? or None?   Rob van Gerwen  15 Nietzsche on Theatricality and Imagination   Roderick Nicholls Part 5: Postmodern Perspectives  16 Simulacral Imagination and the Nexus of Power in a Post-marxist Universe   Keith Moser  17 Jean-François Lyotard, the Radical Imagination, and the Aesthetic of the Differend   Victor E. Taylor  18 The Possibility of a Productive Imagination in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari   Erik Bormanis Part 6:Imagination in Scientific Modeling and Biosemiotics  19 Of Predators and Prey: Imagination in Scientific Modeling   Fiora Salis  20 Geometry and the Imagination   Justin Humphreys  21 Art and Imagination: The Evolution of Meanings   Wendy Wheeler Part 7: Aesthetic Perspectives  22 Image, Image-making and Imagination   Dominic Gregory  23 Depiction, Imagination, and Photography   Jiri Benovksy  24 Imagination and Identification in Photography and Film   David Fenner  25 Imagination in Musical Composition, Performance, and Listening: John Cage’s Blurring of Boundaries in Music and Life in 4′33″   Deborah Fillerup Weagel  26 Kinesthetic Imagining and Dance Appreciation   Renee M. Conroy  27 Imagination in Games: Formulation, Re-actualization and Gaining a World   Ton Kruse  28 “‘I AM not mad, most noble Festus.’ No. But I have been”: Possible Worlds Theory and the Complex, Imaginative Worlds of Sarban’s The Sound of his Horn   Riyukta Raghunath Part 8: Non-western Perspectives  29 The Deep Frivolity of Life: An Indian Aesthetic Phenomenology of Fun   Arindam Chakrabarti  30 The Symbolic Force of Rocks in the Chinese Imagination   Yanping Gao  31 Magic from the Repressed: Imagination and Memories in Contemporary Japanese Literary Narratives   Amy Lee  32 The Metaphysics of Creativity: Imagination in Sufism, from the Qurʾan into Ibn al-ʿArabi’   Ali Hussain Part 9: Artists Reflect on Imagination: An Imaginative Epilogue  33 Free Thinking about Imagination: How is it to Imagine What Imagination is?   Marion Renauld  34 The Nativity of Images   Ton Kruse  35 Signal: Poetry and Imagination   Jesse Graves  36 The Echo of Voices   Umar Timol  37 Poem, Liberty   Louise Dupré  38 Why to Wish for the Witch   Lisa Fay Coutley  Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an analysis of the social aspects of Carl Gustav Jung's thought and its followers, the interpretation of the phenomena of contemporary social life (social imagery) from the perspective of the main categories of this thought (archetype, unconscious, collectivity, mass society, mass man). It also contains an attempt of their application for understanding contemporary social and political phenomena (e.g. Brazilian sebastianism, Balkan conflicts, virtual-imagery sphere of communication, figures of imagery in popular culture, and others). The authors examine the relationship between Jung’s and Jungians' (E. Neumann, J. Hillman, J. L. Henderson) conceptions and many accompanying them (e.g. Frankfurt school, Bachelard’s philosophy, American cultural psychoanalysis) and the background of contemporary social psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Archetypes and Imagination  Ilona Blocian, Robert Segal, and Andrew Kuzmicki Part 1: Collective Structures of the Unconscious 1 What Is Real?  John Beebe 2 Jung and Social Thought  Ilona Blocian 3 Interpretation Dilemmas Relating to Carl Gustav Jung's Concept in the Context of the Sociological-Anthropological Tradition  Ewa Kwiatkowska Part 2: Social Imaginarium 4 The Lost Art of Personalization  Vicky Jo Varner 5 The Wall: Object, Image, and Processes in the Individual and Collective Psyche  Monica Luci 6 An Unconscious Source of Images: about how Bachelard Read Jung  Kamila Morawska 7 In the Quest for Temenos: Metaphors for the Origins of Serbian Cultural Complexes  Bojana Stamenkovic Rudic 8 Therapy of Shadow in Film and Literature Introductory Remarks  Maria Kostyszak 9 Archetypal Feminine in Kaxinawá's Stories: A Decolonizing Option to Jungian Approach  Hannah Hennebert 10 The Hero as a Dominant Mythical Motif in Western Culture and Its Relevance Nowadays: The Postulates of Jung and his Followers  Patrycja Neumann 11 What Only They Could See: A Comparative Analysis of Hilma af Klint's Swan Paintings and C. G. Jung's Mandala Sketches  Kathrin Schaeppi 12 Traces of Psychological Impact Found in the Drawings by Cancer Patients  Norifumi Kishimoto 13 Return to Indigenous Art Forms: Potential for Healing  Josepha Bayes-King 14 Erich Neumann's Great Mother, André Green's Dead Mother, and Ecopsychology  Lidar Shany 15 Wotan and Cocks: Reframing Jungian Sociology for the Early 21st Century  Johann Graaff Part 3: Psychological Significance in Social Processes 16 Thinking of a Social Hierarchy as an Instinctual and Archetypal Phenomenon  Andrew Kuzmicki 17 Cultural Complex, Death Anxiety, and Individuation During the Times of Populism: A Dialogue between Jungian Psychology and Social Psychology  Helge Michael Osterhold 18 Portuguese Sebastianism as an Intersection Field between the Right and Left Political Forces in Brazilian 2018 Presidential Elections  Gustavo Orlandeli Marques 19 From Compensation to Purpose. A Neo-Jungian Critique of Horkheimer and Marcuse  Stefano Carpani 20 Mania of Contemporary Capitalism-A Polish Perspective  Michaó Wróblewski Index

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This first volume focuses on sense perception and discusses philosophical questions concerning the external senses, their classification, and their functioning, from Aristotle to Brentano.Table of ContentsContents Preface Abbreviations General Introduction  Sten Ebbesen Introduction: Sense Perception in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition  Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink 1 Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Individuation and Hierarchy of the Senses  Katerina Ierodiakonou 2 Aristotle on Incidental Perception  Mika Perälä 3 Sense Perception in the Arabic Tradition: The Controversy Concerning Causality  David Bennett 4 Avicenna on Perception, Cognition, and Mental Disorders: The Case of Hallucination  Ahmed Alwishah 5 Perceiving Many Things Simultaneously: Medieval Reception of an Aristotelian Problem  Juhana Toivanen 6 Affected by the Matter: The Question of Plant Perception in the Medieval Latin Tradition on De somno et vigilia  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist 7 Autoscopy in Meteorologica 3.4: Following Some Strands in the Greek, Arabic, and Latin Commentary Traditions  Filip Radovic and David Bennett 8 Brentano’s Aristotelian Account of the Classification of the Senses  Hamid Taieb Bibliography Indices

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This second volume focuses on dreaming and analyses some of the most prominent problems connected to dreams as representations. The contributions in this volume address the core Aristotelian texts and their reception, up to and including contemporary scientific discourse on dreaming.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction: Sleeping and Dreaming in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition  Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink 1 Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the Deceptive Character of Dreams  Pavel Gregoric 2 Aristotle on Signs in Sleep: Natural Signification and Dream Interpretation  Filip Radovic 3 Avicenna’s Dreaming in Context  David Bennett 4 Averroes on Divinatory Dreaming  Rotraud Hansberger 5 How Dreams Are Made: Some Latin Medieval Commentators on Dream Formation in Aristotle’s De insomniis  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist 6 What Does a Scholastic Philosopher Do When He Disagrees with Aristotle? Commentaries on Aristotle’s Divination in Sleep  Sten Ebbesen 7 The Ghost of Aristotle in Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Accounts of Delusional Dreaming  Filip Radovic Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This final volume focuses on intellectual operations and analyses some of the most exciting issues pertaining to the conceptual representation of the external world. The contributions cover the historical traditions and their impact on contemporary philosophy of mind.Table of ContentsPreface  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist and Juhana Toivanen Abbreviations Introduction: Cognition and Conceptualisation in the Aristotelian Tradition  Sten Ebbesen and Pavel Gregoric 1 Aristotle’s Light Analogy in the Greek Tradition  Börje Bydén 2 Introducing the Maʿānī  David Bennett 3 Avicenna on the Semantics of Maʿnā  Seyed N. Mousavian 4 Avicenna on Talking about Nothing  Seyed N. Mousavian 5 Abstraction and Intellection of Essences in the Latin Tradition  Ana María Mora-Márquez 6 John of Jandun on How to Understand Many Things at the Same Time  Michael Stenskjær Christensen 7 Concept Empiricisms, Ancient and Modern  Alexander Greenberg Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis exploration in the history of ideas examines the groundbreaking notion of the embodied mind in its analysis by the French philosopher and politician Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and in its afterlife: consciousness is generated through frequent interaction between the voluntary and the spiritual. The conscious, active self is constituted in its sovereign autonomy, as free and undivided, by an inner act of willful resistance, a physical effort towards its own body and the world. For the first time, a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers from Japan, USA and Europe investigate origins and discursive cross-fertilization of this concept around 1800, an intermediary stage between 1870 and 1945, and its influence upon existentialism, phenomenology, and deconstructivism during the postwar-period and beyond, from 1943 to 2010.Table of Contents9789004515611 Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 1800 1 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary France  Sean Quinlan 2 Maine de Biran and Neurology  Larry McGrath 3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart  Marco Piazza 4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?  Warren Schmaus 5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical Phenomenology  Marc Maesschalck 6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de Biran  Rolf Kühn 7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de Biran  Alessandra Aloisi Part 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945) 8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and Legacy  Denise Vincenti 9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back Again  Benjamin Jacques Bâcle 10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed Synchronism  Pietro Terzi 11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de Biran  Michael A. Conway 12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de Biran  Anne Devarieux 13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)  Marco Piazza 14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual Self  Manfred Milz 15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida Kitarō  Mika Imono Part 3 Postwar Biran-Reception and Beyond: Existentialism; Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (1943–2010) 16 Paul Ricœur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the “Primitive Fact” of Subjectivity in Maine de Biran  Eftichis Epirovolakis 17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”  Scott Davidson 18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental Field  Alessandra Aloisi 19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de Biran  Björn Thorsteinsson 20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel Henry  Anne Devarieux 21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological Project  Luis Umbelino Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond the neurohype of recent decades, Worlding the Brain introduces the concept of “worlding” as a new perspective to understand the inherent entanglement of brains/minds with their worldly environments, cultural practices, and social contexts. Worlding the Brain makes a case for the distinctive role of the humanities and arts in the research on brains and cognition and explores new forms of interdisciplinarity.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Together again, Apart  Stephan Besser and Flora Lysen Part 1: Worlded Brains 1 ‘Worlding’ the Brain through the Cultural Practice of Rhetorical memoria  Michael Burke 2 The Mediated Brain  A Case Study on Experiential Engagement with Cinematic Form  Joerg Fingerhut 3 Getting a Kick out of Film  Aesthetic Pleasure and Play in Prediction Error Minimizing Agents  Mark Miller, Marc Anderson, Felix Schoeller and Julian Kiverstein 4 Transgenerational Trauma and Worlded Brains  An Interdisciplinary Perspective on “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome”  Machiel Keestra 5 Beworldered  An Autobiographical Inquiry of Epileptic Being  Trijsje Franssen 6 Pedagogy and Neurodiversity  Experimenting in the Classroom with Autistic Perception  Halbe Kuipers Part 2: Narrative Entanglements 7 Personification as Élanification  Agency Combustion and Narrative Layering in Worlding Perceived Relations  Marco Bernini 8 Cognitive Formalism  Or, How Presence Machines are Built  Karin Kukkonen 9 “Watchman, What of the Night?”  Reading Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood  Shannon McBriar 10 The Unfolding Now  Narrative Sense-Making from a Neurocinematic Perspective  Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen Part 3: Figuring the Brain 11 Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen  Psychedelic Revival in the Acid Western  Patricia Pisters 12 Modeling the Model  Reflections on a 10-Year Documentary about the Blue Brain Project  Noah Hutton 13 A Monk in the Office  Mindfulness and the Valuation of Popular Neuroscience  Ties van der Werff 14 Figuring Thought  Between Experience and Abstraction  Ksenia Fedorova PART 4: Shared Patterns and Discordant Worlds 15 Circulating Neuro-Imagery A Trilogue  Antye Guenter, Flora Lysen, and Alexander Sack 16 What Have the Arts and Humanities Ever Done for Us?  Disruptive Contributions and a 4E Cognitive Arts and Humanities  Michael Wheeler 17 Measuring Acoustic Social Worlds  Reflections on a Study of Multi-Agent Human Interaction  Shannon Proksch, Majerle Reeves, Michael Spivey and Ramesh Balasubramania 18 Harmonic Dissonance: Synchron(icit)y  A Case Study of Experimentation at the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences  Suzanne Dikker and Suzan Tunca 19 Thanks for Sharing  Local Worlds, Xeno-Patterning, and Predictive Processing  Stephan Besser Index

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Book SynopsisWounded pride of the hero motivated one of the primal poems, pride of the angel caused his downfall and hubris of man cost him his expulsion from earthly paradise and the sale of his soul to the devil. Different forms of pride play a central role in many myths. This book conscientiously reviews the history of these emotions, literary recreations and philosophical approaches and accounts for their relevance in the contemporary world. It offers an original phenomenology of pride, which draws on preceding historical and analytical work, and a conceptual and musical speculation on the future of posthuman pride.Trade Review‘The analysis of the emotion of pride is approached with a masterful beauty, perfectly combining a double historical-hermeneutical and philosophical-phenomenological approach.’ - Sonia Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Distance Education, Spain ‘What a great book! Very well written, with clear ideas and masterfully developed. Also substantial and erudite. None of this prevents the author from using a subtle and ironic humor where it is appropriate and does not break the speech.’ - Mikel Gorriti, Ph.D. in Psychology, Basque Government ‘Written in simple and rigorous language, this book traces the history of the emotion of pride and analyses its growing importance in contemporary cultural, social and political movements. An excellent book.’ - Juan Antonio Valor, former Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of MadridTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Duality of Pride 1 Emotion and Character 2 The State of the Question 3 History and Philosophy Part 1 The History of Pride 2 Gods, Heroes and Men 1 The Warrior Aristocracy 2 The Olympic Games 3 The Panegyric of Democracy 4 The Myth of Prometheus 3 The Pride of Philosophers 1 The Philosopher-Kings 2 Greatness of Soul 3 Hubris, Outrage and Excess 4 Pride and Work 4 The Hubris of the Angel 1 The Problem of Sources 2 The Creation of the Angels 3 The Sin of the Angel 4 The Fall of the Angel 5 The Hubris of the Human 1 The State of Innocence 2 General Pride and Special Pride 3 Moral Humility and Spiritual Humility 4 Original Sin 5 The Implications of the Thomist Interpretation 6 Piety and Justice 1 The Four Stages of History 2 The Two Pillars of the Old Testament 3 The Exclusivity of the God of Israel 4 Orphans, Widows and Foreigners 7 Pride and Knowledge 1 The Devil’s Crony 2 The Curiosity of Doctor Faustus 3 The Plurality of Faustuses 4 Excess and Pride 5 The Condemnation and Salvation of Faustus Part 2 The Philosophy of Pride 8 The Virtue of Pride 1 From Myth to Lógos 2 Opinions, Desires, Emotions 3 The Passions of the Soul 4 Pride, Magnanimity and Humility 5 Pride and Dignity 9 Humility and Resentment 1 The Morality of Aristocrats and the Morality of Slaves 2 The Transvaluation of Values 3 Christian Humility, Resentment and Fraternity 4 The Ambiguities of Christian Morality 5 Nietzschean Love and Pride 10 The Pride of the Masses 1 Philosophy and Poetry 2 No-One Is More than any One 3 Resentment and Mass-Pride 11 Identity and Difference 1 Black Pride 2 lgbtiq+ Pride 3 Collective Pride 4 Science and Pride 12 The Phenomenology of Pride 1 The Essence of Pride 2 Variations of the Proximate Kind: Emotion 3 Variations of Subject and Material Object: Oneself 4 Variations of the Formal Object: Excellence 5 Variations of Modality: Order and Disorder Part 3 The Future of Pride 13 Post-pride 1 Infra-humanity and Post-humanity 2 Subhuman, Human and Superhuman Dignity 3 The Morality and Pride of Supermen 4 Fundamental Prideological Meditation 5 The Transvaluation of Pride Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind’s architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a dialogue, the book explores some of the psychological and philosophical consequences that the author derives from his proposal.Trade Review”Provocative and imaginative, the first volume in the VIBS’ Special Series in Cognitive Science is a critique of the traditional theoretical apparatus of the discipline. In The Dissolution of Mind, neuroscientist Oscar Vilarroya undertakes the ambitious project of reformulating the traditional notions of ‘concept,’ ‘thought,’ ‘communication,’ ‘representation,’ ‘language’ and eventually ‘mind.’” in: Metapsychology, May 2003Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Editorial Foreword by Oscar Vilarroya Guest Foreword by Adolf Tobeña Preface Acknowledgments ONE Alice’s Perplexities TWO Non-Professor O’s Aphorisms THREE Monday. On How No Superfluous Experiences Exist FOUR Tuesday. On How to Get by Without Concepts FIVE Wednesday. On How to Live in a Virtual World SIX Thursday. On How Words Lost Their Meaning SEVEN Friday. On How to Communicate Without Information EIGHT Saturday. On How Living Dissolves the Mind NINE Sunday. “Tap-Tapping” the Compass Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThis book contains eleven original papers about intentionality. Some explore current problems such as the status of intentional content, the intentionality of perception and emotion, the connections between intentionality and normativity, the relationship between intentionality and consciousness, the characteristics of the intentional idiom. Others discuss the work of historical figures like Locke, Brentano, Husserl and Frege.Trade Review”The book is worthy of consideration, particularly among those scholars with an abiding interest in the philosophy of mind and the science of consciousness.” in: PsycCRITIQUES (Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books)Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations One: Laird ADDIS: The Necessity and Nature of Mental Contents Two: Philip J. BARTOK: Reading Brentano on the Intentionality of the Mental Three: William FISH: Emotions, Moods, and Intentionality Four: Gábor FORRAI: Lockean Ideas as Intentional Contents Five: Jussi HAUKIOJA: Normativity and Mental Content Six: Greg JESSON: The Ontological and Intentional Status of Fregean Senses: An Early Account of External Content Seven: Howard ROBINSON: Sense-Data, Intentionality, and Common Sense Eight: János TÖZSÉR: The Content of Perceptual Experience Nine: Shannon VALLOR: The Intentionality of Reference in Husserl and the Analytic Tradition Ten: Alberto VOLTOLINI: How to Get Intentionality by Language Eleven: Kenneth WILLIFORD: The Intentionality of Consciousness and Consciousness of Intentionality Works Cited About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines philosophical and scientific implications of Neodarwinism relative to recent empirical data. It develops explanations of social behavior and cognition through analysis of mental capabilities and consideration of ethical issues. It includes debate within cognitive science among explanations of social and moral phenomena from philosophy, evolutionary and cognitive psychology, neurobiology, linguistics, and computer science. The series Cognitive Science provides an original corpus of scholarly work that makes explicit the import of cognitive-science research for philosophical analysis. Topics include the nature, structure, and justification of knowledge, cognitive architectures and development, brain-mind theories, and consciousness.Table of ContentsMirera BELIL: Foreword Francisco TOMÁS VERT: Foreword Oscar VILARROYA, Antoni BULBENA, Joaquim COLL, and Adolf TOBEÑA: Foreword: From Dialogue to “The Social Brain” Chair Acknowledgments Francesc FORN I ARGIMON: Introduction Part One: Learning Processes of Social Values Núria SEBASTIÁN GALLÉS: Learning: A Brief Introduction from the Neurosciences Daniel C. DENNETT: Can Unselfishness Be Taught? Katherine NELSON: Learning from a Bio-cultural Developmental Perspective Eric BREDO: When is Ethical Learning? Emily A. PARKER and Lawrence W. BARSALOU: Perspectiveless Certainty in Socio-Cultural-Political Beliefs Stevan HARNAD: Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the “We/They” Category Boundary Part Two: The Neurobiology and/or Psychology of Moral Thought Adolf TOBEÑA: Benumbing and Moral Exaltation in Deadly Martyrs: A View from Neuroscience Scott ATRAN: Religion, Suicide, Terrorism, and the Moral Foundation of the World Shaun NICHOLS: On the Psychological Diversity of Moral Insensitivity William A. ROTTSCHAEFER: The Benumbing Moral Indifference of the Wealthy: What Does it Take to Motivate the Fulfillment of a Minimal Norm of Economic Justice? Félix OVEJERO: Naturalistic Perspectives on Morality, Limits, and Possibilities Antoni GOMILA: Suicide Terrorists, Neuroscience, and Morality: Taking Complexities into Account David PREMACK: Foundations of Morality in the Infant Part Three: Evolutionary Roots of Social Behavior Arcadi NAVARRO: Conflict and Cooperation in Human Affairs Sandro NANNINI: A Comment on “Conflict and Cooperation in Human Affairs” by Arcadi Navarro F. John ODLING-SMEE: Cultural Niche Construction and Human Evolution Camilo JOSÉ CELA CONDE, Miguel ÁNGEL CAPÓ, Marcos NADAL, and Carlos RAMOS: What Do We Know of the Social Brain? Merlin DONALD: Evolutionary Origins of the Social Brain Luc STEELS: Language Originated in Social Brains Derek BICKERTON: The Ape in the Anthill Robert GINSBERG: Human Cognition and the Recognition of Humanity About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMuch recent work on concepts has been inspired by and developed within the bounds of the representational theory of the mind often taken for granted by philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and psychologists alike. The contributions to this volume take a more encompassing perspective on the issue of concepts. Rather than modelling details of our representational architecture in line with the dominant paradigm, they explore three traditional issues concerning concepts. Is mastery of a language necessary for thought? Do concepts reduce to abilities? Is the analysis of concepts a viable means to ascertain truths from the proverbial armchair? An introductory essay provides a rough geography of key ideas and issues shaping the overall debate on concepts within contemporary philosophy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Christian Nimtz and Julia Langkau: Concepts in Philosophy—A Rough Geography Robert Brandom: Conceptual Content and Discursive Practice José Luis Bermúdez: Two Arguments for the Language-Dependence of Thought Martine Nida-Rümelin: Thinking without Language. A Phenomenological Argument for its Possibility and Existence Hannes Rakoczy: From Thought to Language to Thought: Towards a Dialectical Picture of the Development of Thinking and Speaking Anthony Kenny: Concepts, Brains, and Behaviour Hans-Johann Glock: Concepts, Abilities, and Propositions Sebastian Rödl: The Self-Conscious Power of Sensory Knowledge Katia Saporiti: In Search of Concepts Frank Jackson: Conceptual Analysis for Representationalists Christian Nimtz: Philosophical Thought Experiments as Exercises in Conceptual Analysis Finn Spicer: Kripke and the Neo-Descriptivist Mark Textor: Frege on Conceptual and Propositional Analysis

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that the irreducible singularity of each person as a psychical subject implies the privacy of the psychical and that of experience, and yet the private accessibility of each person to his or her mind is compatible with interpersonal communication and understanding. The book treats these major issues against the background of the author’s original metaphysics—panenmentalism.Table of ContentsMark Letteri: Editorial Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Accessibilities and the Metaphysics of Privacy A Myth of Externalism The Privacy of Experience What? Why Are Many Philosophers Still Blind to Private Accessibility? Psychical Accessibility and Literary Fiction Appendix I: Language, Intersubjectivity, and Privacy Appendix II: Darwin’s Predicta Moth as a Pure, A Priori Accessible Possibility Works Cited About the Author Index

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