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Book SynopsisInternationally renowned contributors analyse and discuss John McDowell's challenging Mind and World. Concludes with responses from McDowell himself. An important contribution to analytic philosophy and the broader philosophical debate.Trade Review'the papers in this collection are of consistently very high quality, critical of some integral component of McDowell’s thought, and are philosophically persuasive.' Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPart 1 Philosophy after KantPart 2 EpistemologyPart 3 Philosophy of MindPart 4 Towards EthicsPart 5 Responses

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Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that explains the relationship between the biological and the cultural.Recent popular interest in the brain is evident, and now social anthropologists are starting to consider connections between science and anthropology. Reyna is an anthropologist prepared to tackle big and difficult questions. This accessibly written book will cause quite a stir in anthropology, and will appeal to those interested in the mysteries of the brain.Trade Review'The bold attempt to map out this territory and give tools to conceptualise the dynamics of it [is] likely to attract attention.' - Andreas Roepstorff, University of AarhusTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Preface, List of Abbreviations, 1. Introduction, Part I: Bungled Connections, 2. Conjectural hermeneutics and 'insurmountable dualism', 3. Confronting the 'insurmountable', Part II: The Connector, 4. Neurohermeneutics, 5. A neurohermeneutic theory of culture, Part III: Coda, 6. What neurohermeneutics is not and is: is not a biological uber-determinism; is a knotty causation, 7. A Boasian social anthropology, Notes, References, Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of Causalite´ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation.Trade ReviewPraise for the French language edition of Causalité et lois de la nature‘… it is a pleasure to read Kistler’s book and … its argument is very well developed. It is a remarkable example of the standards of clarity and precision that are achieved in today’s analytical philosophy of science.’Michael Esfedl, University of Konstanz, Germany: review of French language edition in Dialectica"… a wonderfully rich book by Max Kistler … not only a skilled writer in the history of philosophy; he also makes important and novel contributions both to the theory of causation and to the philosophy of laws of nature. (…) This book is already packed with good arguments. My impression is that Causalité et lois de la nature is important reading for all philosophers with an interest in laws of nature and causation. I will certainly be on the watch both for the translation of it and for forthcoming work by Max Kistler."Johannes Persson, Lund University, review in MindTable of Contents1. What is a Causal Relation? 2. Laws of Nature and Universal Generalisations 3. Applicability Conditions and the Concept of "Strict Law" 4. Consequences 5. The Nomological Theory of Causation and Causal Responsibility 6. Efficacious Properties and the Instantiation of Laws 7. Causal Responsibility and its Applications Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book examines aspects of Western psychological and educational theory in relation to educational practice around the world, and considers the extent to which current understandings are truly applicable to a range of diverse settings. In so doing, it also seeks to question, where appropriate, existing orthodoxies within Western educational systems.Table of Contents1. Editorial: Are Western Educational Theories and Practices Truly Universal?, Julian Elliott & Elena Grigorenko 2. Bridging Between the Orthodoxy of Western Higher Educational Practices and an African Sociocultural Context, Robert Serpell3. Culture, Instruction, and Assessment, Robert Sternberg4. Bridging Between Orthodox Western Higher Educational Practices and an African Socio Cultural Context, Robert Serpell5. Western Influence on Chinese Educational Testing, Weihua Niu6. The Impact of the West on Post Soviet Russian Education: Change and Resistance to Change, Julian Elliot and Jonathan Tudge7. Teachers’ Ethnotheories of the 'Ideal Student' in Five Western Countries, Sara Harkness, Marjolijn, Blom, Ughetta Moscardino, Alfredo Oliva, Parminder Parmar, Piotr Olaf Zylicz & Charles Super8. Schooling’s Contribution to Social Capital: Study from a Native Amazonian Society in Bolivia, Ricardo Godoy, Craig Seyford, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, William R., Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, Vincent Vadez9. Hitting , Missing, and in Between: A tyPology of the Impact of Western Education on the Non-Western World, Elena L. Grigorenko

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Book SynopsisThe study of human behaviour, and the minds that produce that behaviour, has been an occupation of scholars, artists, and philosophers for millennia. But it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that psychology came into its own as a distinct field of studyand, more importantly, as a scientifically legitimate field of study. When we view psychology as a science, certain questions naturally emerge: what sorts of phenomena does psychology seek to explain? What is distinctive about the kinds of explanations adduced in this science? How do these explanations integrate with theories and explanations in other fields of study? Does psychology aim to explain all mental phenomena, or are there some areas, such as consciousness, that will be forever beyond its explanatory powers?Due to its very nature, psychology is a field that both philosophers and scientists have critically examined over the years. This critical examination has, in turn, generated a literature that

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Book SynopsisIn a major new work from the author of Godel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop, two leading scholars argue that analogy is the basis for all human thoughtsTrade ReviewLonglisted for the 2014 PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Science "Surfaces and Essences warrants a place alongside Godel, Escher, Bach and major recent treatments of human cognition. Analogy is not the endpoint of understanding, but its indispensable beginning." Nature "Lucid and, page for page, a delight to read... [Surfaces and Essences contains] gems of insight." Wall Street Journal "Clear, lively, and personal." Globe and Mail (Canada) "Knowing what makes a duck a bird and what makes a plane not a bird may not seem like very profound mental feats--but Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander see such cognitive connections as part of an extraordinarily profound process... Be prepared to become hyper-conscious of the myriad of analogies one makes every moment of every day... The end result is a book that is ambitious and provocative." Booklist, starred review "A revelatory foray into the dynamics of the mind." Library Journal "Like Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Godel, Escher, Bach, this work executes, from a very complex thesis, an understanding by general readers while also appealing to specialists in philosophy of mind and cognitive science." Kirkus Reviews, starred review "How do we know what we know? How do we know at all? With an enjoyable blend of hard science and good storytelling, Hofstadter and French psychologist Sander tackle these most elusive of philosophical matters... [I]t's worth sticking with [Hofstadter's] long argument, full of up-to-date cognitive science and, at the end, a beguiling look at how the theory of relativity owes to analogy... First rate popular science: difficult but rewarding." Melanie Mitchell, Professor of Computer Science, Portland State University, and author of Complexity: A Guided Tour "Hofstadter and Sander's book is a wonderful and insightful account of the role of analogy in cognition. Immensely enjoyable, with a plethora of fascinating examples and anecdotes, this book will make you understand your own thought processes in a wholly new way. It's analogy all the way down!" Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought "I am one of those cognitive scientists who believe that analogy is a key to explaining human intelligence. This magnum opus by Douglas Hofstadter, who has reflected on the nature of analogy for decades, and Emmanuel Sander, is a milestone in our understanding of human thought, filled with insights and new ideas." Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics and History of Science, Emeritus, Harvard University "Hofstadter and Sander's book starts with two audacious goals: to show that none of us can think a minute without using a variety of analogies, and that becoming aware of this fact can help us think more clearly. Then, patiently and with humor, the authors prove their claims across the whole spectrum, from everyday conversation to scientific thought processes, even that of Einstein." Nancy J. Nersessian, Professor of Cognitive Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, and author of Creating Scientific Concepts "Placing analogy at the core of cognition Hofstadter and Sander provide a persuasive answer to the question 'what is thought?' Analogy is the mechanism underlying the myriad instances of concept formation and categorization we perform throughout any day, whether unconscious or explicit, without which there would be no thought. They mount a compelling case through analysis of a wealth of insightful--imaginative and real--exemplars, from everyday thinking to the highest achievements of the human mind, which are sure to persuade a broad range of readers."Table of ContentsPrologue: Analogy as the Core of Cognition 1. The Evocation of Words 2. The Evocation of Phrases 3. A Vast Ocean of Invisible Analogies 4. Abstraction and Inter-category Sliding 5. How Analogies Manipulate Us 6. How We Manipulate Analogies 7. Naive Analogies 8. Analogies that Shook the World Epidialogue: Katy and Anna Debate the Core of Cognition

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Book SynopsisHere, for the first time, contemporary Continental thought comes into conversation with analytic philosophy on all the principal topics of philosophy of mind. Rejecting the dominant Anglo-American paradigm, which reduces mental phenomena to their roles in a scientific psychology, the authors present a non-mysterious, naturalistic alternative. Characterising mental life is, they seek to show, capturing the world from the point of view of the subject. But the subject is essentially embodied, so that mental phenomena are modes of our fleshly existence in the world.The book aims to bring together these three themes - the world,the flesh and the subject - to resolve many of the puzzles that beset contemporary philosophy of mind. It thereby provides a coherent new approach which draws upon phenomenology, hermeneutics, psycho-analysis and poststructuralism, and relates recent feminist work on the body to traditional concerns with the mind. The topics discussed include the problem of consciousness, perceptiTable of ContentsCONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One The Character of Experience; Chapter Two The Constraints of Experience; Chapter Three Imagination and the Imaginary; Chapter Four Desire; Chapter Five Emotions; Chapter Six Reason, Agency and Understanding; Chapter Seven Ourselves and Others.

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Book SynopsisA philosophical examination and celebration of the human hand.Trade ReviewIt's hard to imagine any other book that could tell us so much about ourselves. Raymond Tallis is a man unusual in modern medicine. His career has been devoted to caring for, studying, and advancing the health of older people in society. But while working as a Professor of Geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester, he has developed a parallel career - as a philosopher, critic, poet and novelist - largely unknown to his clinical brotherhood and sisterhood. Indeed, important though his medical work has been, it is likely that his philosophy, and especially his philosophical anthropology will leave a particularly indelible mark on human affairs. -- Richard Horton Compellingly interesting ! An extraordinary achievement. -- Michael Grant, editor of The Raymond Tallis Reader One of the most intriguing figures in the current intellectual scene. Tallis conjures up a challenging and endlessly fascinating way of thinking about ourselves that should act as a signpost for the future where we might learn once again to glimpse, as our forebears did, the wonder - and mystery - of ourselves.Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Overture; 1 Grasping the Hand; 1.1 Preliminary Grapplings; 1.2 The Manipulative Hand; 1.3 The Knowing Hand; 1.4 The Communicative Hand; 1.5 From Prehension to Apprehension; Part I Brachio-Chiral; 2 The Armed Hand; 2.1 Two Fingers to Over-digitisation; 2.2 The Genius of Reaching; 2.3 Mechanism and Agency; 3 The Talking Hand; 3.1 Introduction: The Sign-making Animal; 3.2 Gesturing; 3.3 Clapping and Other Hand Shouting; 3.4 Handsome; 4 Hand Talking to Hand; 4.1 Manucaption; 4.2 The Dialogue of the Left Hand with the Right; 4.3 The Interlocutors; 4.4 The Hand Talking to its Self or the Self; 5 The Playful Hand; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Carnal Hand; 5.3 Hand Games; 5.4 Post-script: Handy (like); Part II Chiro-Digital; 6 One-finger Exercises; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Thumb; 6.3 Index; 6.4 Middle; 6.5 Ring; 6.6 Little; 7 Polydactylic Exercises; 7.1 Introduction: The Ordeal of Precision; 7.2 Two Fingers; 7.3 Three Fingers; 7.4 Four Fingers; 7.5 Five Fingers; 7.6 Ten Fingers; 8 Abstract Digits; 8.1 Introduction and Disclaimer; 8.2 The Number Sense: From Magnitudes to Digits; 8.3 Digits and Digits; 8.4 Units: From Counting to Measurement; 8.5 The Unreasonable Power of the Precision of Abstract Digits; 9The Tool of Tools; 9.1 Prologue: The Self-shaping Hand; 9.2 Tool-using, Tool-making and the Tool of Tools; 9.3 Tools and the Origin of Human Culture; 9.4 Eolith and SuperCray; 9.5 Tools and Language; 9.6 Brain, Tools and Language; 9.7 Beyond Biology and Biologism; 9.8 Epilogue: Handicraft; Appendix: Karl Marx and the Collectivisation of; Human Consciousness in Tools; Part III Towards Chiro-Philosophy; 10 Getting and Grip on the Conscious Human Agent; 10.1 Recapitulation; 10.2 The Dawn of the Conscious Human Agent; 10.3 From Biology to Philosophical Anthropology; Coda; 11 Waving Farewell to the Hand; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 The Paradox of Handyman: (1) Part of; and Separate from Nature; 11.3 The Paradox of the Handyman: (2) Subject to and Yet Manipulating Nature's Laws; 11.4 The Balance Sheet: (1) Knowledge. Does the Hand Grasp the Truth?; 11.5 The Balance Sheet: (2) Moral and Spiritual; 11.6 Handing On; 11.7 A Last Wave Farewell; Index.

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Book SynopsisCould a computer have a mind? What kind of machine would this be? Exactly what do we mean by ''mind'' anyway?The notion of the ''intelligent'' machine, whilst continuing to feature in numerous entertaining and frightening fictions, has also been the focus of a serious and dedicated research tradition. Reflecting on these fictions, and on the research tradition that pursues ''Artificial Intelligence'', raises a number of vexing philosophical issues. Minds and Computers introduces readers to these issues by offering an engaging, coherent, and highly approachable interdisciplinary introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.Readers are presented with introductory material from each of the disciplines which constitute Cognitive Science: Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science, and Linguistics. Throughout, readers are encouraged to consider the implications of this disparate and wide-ranging material for the possibility of developing machines with minds. And they can expect to de

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Book SynopsisThe Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (1711-1776) has often been regarded as a key Enlightenment thinker. However, his image has been long contested between those who consider him a conservative and those who see him as a key liberal thinker. Hume''s Sceptical Enlightenment offers a new interpretation for such diverse images and demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his ''spirit of scepticism'' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.

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Book SynopsisMichael Hampe teaches philosophy at ETH Zurich.Trade ReviewThis is a work in the tradition - albeit with more varied arguments - of the Stoics, Marcus Aurelius and others. High praise. Moreover, it's very easy to read. * Times Higher Education *

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Book SynopsisLance St John Butler is a literary academic who has worked at the University of Stirling in Scotland and at the University of Pau in France. He is the author of books on Thomas Hardy, Samuel Beckett, Literary Stylistics and Victorian Doubt. Since retirement he has lived in Edinburgh where he is Chairman of Trustees of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre.

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Book SynopsisToday's approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the mind with room for both brain and culture. Brinkmann's remarkable and thought-provoking work is one of the first books to integrate brain research with phenomenology, social practice studies and actor-network theory, all of which are held together by the concept of the person. Brinkmann's new and informative approach to the person, the mind and mental disorder give this book a wide scope. The author uses Rom Harré's hybrid psychology as a meta-theoretical starting point and expands this significantly by including four sources of mediators: the brain, the body, social practices and teTrade Review"Persons and their Minds is a remarkably elegant, deeply scholarly and integrative proposition for a new "hybrid psychology". Drawing on classical and current debates in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences and psychology, Svend Brinkmann proposes an original theory of persons, with their minds as sets of practices and dispositions, mediated by their brain, bodies and social worlds. Written with simplicity and humor, this monograph brings much-needed theoretical and epistemological clarifications – demonstrating why, among other things, people’s actions cannot be explained by brain mechanisms. This groundbreaking work offers a new basis for understanding psychopathology and paves the way for an integrative psychology of people’s everyday life in society." - Professor Tania Zittoun, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. "Brinkmann’s book provides the long-sought integration of the various strands of psychology and will be the starting point of the unification of the sciences of the mind.​" – Professor Rolf Reber, University of Oslo, Norway.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Foreword Introduction 1. The Concepts of Mind and Person 2. The Mind and the Brain 3. The Mind and the Body 4. The Mind and Society 5. The Mind and Things 6. The Mind between the Brain and Culture 7. Persons and Disordered Minds References

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Book SynopsisR.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian and practicing archaeologist. His work, particularly in the philosophy of action and history, has been profoundly influential in the 20th and 21st century. Although the importance of his work is indisputable, this is the first book to consider how and why it actually matters. Giussepina D''oro considers the importance of Collingwood as a thinker who thinks kaleidoscopically and, unlike lots of contemporary philosophers, refuses to focus on narrow, technical interests but instead, observes the whole world of thought. Why Collingwood Matters revives Collingwood''s conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis and shows how it informs his understanding of the mind, what it means to act, and what it means to understand the past historically. It also argues for the relevance of his metaphilosophical approach to the challenge posed by the Anthropocene and the global environmental crisis. Both aTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. What does Philosophy do? 2.1 Questions and their Presuppositions 2.2 The Philosopher as a Logical Detective 2.3 Different Ways of Looking at the World 2.4 Nothing Wrong with Science, the Problem is Scientism 2.5 No Contest Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image 2.6 The Devil is in the Detail: Explanatory Pluralism, not Relativism 2.7 Why Philosophy Matters Even if it Bakes no Bread 3. Mind 3.1 The Telescopic View of the Mind and the Layered View of the Sciences 3.2 The Usual Non-Reductivist Suspects 3.3 The Bifurcated View of the Sciences and the Manifest Image of Mind 3.4 Working Within the Constraint that Philosophy Should Not Conflict with Science 3.5 Why Mind is Not Matter 4. Action 4.1 The Kantian Antinomy of Freedom and Determinism 4.2 Rationalizations and Causal Explanations 4.3 Anomalous Monism and Anti-Causalism 4.4 Why Actions are not Events 5. History 5.1 The Historical and the Natural Past 5.2 How to Understand Other Minds Historically 5.3 The Narrative Turn, Postmodernism and Re-enactment 5.4 Cultural Anthropology with Collingwood and Quine 5.5 Why the Past can be Known 6. The Nature/Culture Distinction 6.1 The Challenge of the Anthropocene 6.2 Just an Ideology for the Industrial Revolution? 6.3 Is the Nature/Culture Distinction Speciesist? 6.4 Historical and Chemical agents 6.5 Why Defending the Nature Culture/Distinction Matters to the Environmental Crisis 7. Conclusion: Why Collingwood Matters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist, Manuel DeLanda, has created an entirely new theory of visual perception. Engaging the scientific (biology, ecological psychology, neuroscience and robotics), the philosophical (idea of ''the embodied mind'') and the mathematical (dynamic systems theory) to form a synthesis of how to see in the 21st century. A transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what matters.Trade ReviewThis is arguably DeLanda’s best work, and that’s really saying something, as he has produced 30 years of innovative philosophy. Materialist Phenomenology is extensively and insightfully scientifically informed, bridges differing schools of philosophy with rigor and fairness, and is written with exemplary lucidity. * John Protevi, Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies, Louisiana State University, USA *Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, DeLanda once again makes an important contribution to theory at large. A well informed, transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what matters. * Rick Dolphijn, Associate Professor of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands *Table of Contentsprelims acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Contribution of the World 2. The Contributions of the Body 3.Contributions of the Brain 4. Contributions of the Mind bibliography index

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Book SynopsisWhat is self-control? Does a person need to be conscious to act? Are delusions always irrational? Questions such as these are fundamental for investigations into action and rationality, as well as how we assign responsibility for wrongdoing and assess clinical symptoms. Bridging the gap between philosophy and psychology, this interdisciplinary collection showcases how empirical research informs and enriches core questions in the philosophy of action.Exploring issues such as truth, moral judgement, agency, consciousness and cognitive control, chapters offer an overview of the current state of research, present new empirical findings and identify where future experimental work can further advance the frontier between philosophy and psychology. This is an essential resource for anyone looking to better understand how science and philosophy can meaningfully inform our knowledge of human agency.Trade ReviewThis cutting-edge collection impressively covers a wide range of topics, ranging from free will and moral responsibility to monothematic delusions. There is something here for everyone with an interest in the philosophy of action – experimental or otherwise – and for everyone with an interest in the very lively field of experimental philosophy. * Alfred Mele, William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University, USA *This impressive volume makes a powerful case for the value of experimental philosophy of action by showcasing recent experimentally-informed work on free will, self-control, moral judgment, reasoning, assertion, and animal agency. It undeniably advances our understanding of some of the most interesting questions at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and the law. * Manuel Vargas, Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego, USA *This volume is a must for anyone interested in contemporary experimental work related to action theory. It beautifully illustrates ways in which a variety of experimental data can inform and constrain philosophical theorizing about action, normal and compromised agency, free will, ethics, and responsibility. * Adina L. Roskies, The Helman Family Distinguished Professor, Dartmouth College, USA *Many subfields in philosophy have profited from close engagement with relevant empirical sciences. With this volume, edited by Henne and Murray, philosophy of action takes a major step in this direction. These essays seamlessly weave together philosophical and empirical perspectives as they tackle core questions about agency. * Chandra Sripada, Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry, University of Michigan, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction to Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action, Samuel Murray and Paul Henne 1. Consciousness, Phenomenal Consciousness, and Free Will, Justin Sytsma and Melissa Snater 2. Skilled Action and Metacognitive Control, Myrto Mylopoulos 3. Bringing Self-Control into the Future, Samuel Murray 4. Who is Responsible? Split Brains, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Implicit Attitudes, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 5. The Everyday Irrationality of Monothematic Delusion, Paul Noordhof and Ema Sullivan-Bissett 6. Truth, Perspective, and Norms Of Assertion: New Findings and Theoretical Advances, John Turri 7. The Distinct Functions of Belief and Desire in Intentional Action Explanation, Joanna Korman 8. Free Enough: Human Cognition (and Cultural Interests) Warrant Responsibility, Cory J Clark, Heather M Maranges, Brian B Boutwell, and Roy F Baumeister 9. Beyond the Courtroom: Agency and the Perception of Free Will, Edouard Machery, Markus Kneer, Pascale Willemsen, and Albert Newen 10. Do Rape Cases Sit in a Moral Blindspot? The Dual Process Theory of Moral Judgment and Rape, Katrina L. Sifferd 11. How People Think About Moral Excellence: The Role of Counterfactual Thoughts in Reasoning about Morally Good Actions, Shane Timmons and Ruth M.J. Byrne 12. Why Idealized Agency Gets Animal (and Human) Agency Wrong, Caroline T. Arruda and Daniel J. Povinelli Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of Herbert Witzenmann's seminal work, Strukturphänomenologie, which departs from the traditional phenomenological methods of Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to introduce a fresh approach to the nexus of consciousness and reality. In Structure Phenomenology, published open access, Witzenmann argues for the active mental, yet mostly pre-reflective, participation of humans in the emergence of individual consciousness of all kinds and the basic structure that determines it. While Witzenmann ascribes a derivative or memorative status to habitual states of phenomenal consciousness, even if they seem to refer to present objectivity, he proposes that the underlying formative processes be unveiled and explored through systematic first-person observation. Through his logically grounded and experience-based approach, he contends that it is not neural processes that produce consciousness, but rather one's own preconscious rootedness in realitTrade ReviewThis book is a wide-ranging analysis and synthesis of how the principles and first-person methods of structural phenomenology cast light on conceptual and non-conceptual content of experience and enable insights into the constitution of intentional content and the formation of reality. It is a highly welcome addition and foundation for the growing interest in epistemological and phenomenological issues concerning the constitution of subjectivity and the world among scientists and laymen alike. * Christian Tewes, Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) of Philosophy, University of Jena, Germany *Table of ContentsForeword, Johannes Wagemann (Alanus University, Germany) Introduction to Structure Phenomenology, Johannes Wagemann (Alanus University, Germany) 1. Biographical Notes on Herbert Witzenmann 2. The Role of Introspection 3. Intentionality and the Basic Structure 4. The Deposited Memorative Layer 5. Reality Access and Ontological Stratification 6. Reception and Further Development of Witzenmann’s Structure Phenomenology Structure Phenomenology, Herbert Witzenmann Foreword Introduction Part 1: The Basic Structure 1.1 Mistaken Conceptions Of The Relation Between Consciousness And Object 1.2 The Basic Structure In The Light Of Rudolf Steiner’s Epistemology 1.3 Explanatory Remarks Part 2: The Crucial Difficulty. The Problem of Generation 2.1 Self-giving. Temporalization. Depresentification 2.2. A Seemingly Resultant Infinite Regress 2.3 The Problem of Continuity Part 3: The Proposed Solution 3.1 Thinking Act and Thought Content (Evidence) 3.2 Further Elucidation on this Approach to a Solution 3.3 Formation of Reality and Beings 3.4 The Sub-temporal and Super-temporal 3.5 Thinking Act and Self-consciousness (the “I”). The Concept of Observation 3.6 The Solution to the Problem of Memory 3.7 The Deposited Memorative Layer. The Concept of Objectivity. The Gaze Behind the Veil 3.8 The Concept of Presence 3.9 Structural and Functional Remembering 3.10 The Paradox of Self-giving. The Self-forgetfulness of Supposing 3.11 Results of the Structure-phenomenological Exploration of the Contents of Consciousness Part 4: The Significance Of Structure Phenomenology Advice for the Reader References

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Book SynopsisGeorge Berkeley's doctrine of notions is often disparaged or dismissed. In a systematic interpretation and positive reconstruction of the doctrine, James Hill presents Berkeley's understanding of the inner sphere and self-awareness, and reassesses the widely held view of Berkeley as an empiricist. Examining the development of Berkeley's philosophy from the early notebooks to the late Siris, Hill sets out how knowledge by notion involves a radical rejection of the perceptual model of self-cognition and of the attempt to frame our knowledge of the inner by analogy with the outer. He points to Berkeley's divergence from the assumption among rationalists and empiricists that we know our selves and our mental acts by idea, or by an immediate presentation before the mind. Weaving together Berkeley's conception of the intellect, conceptual thought, mathematics, ethics and theology in the light of the doctrine of notions, Hill invites us to treat Berkeley's philosophy of mind as distiTrade ReviewThe Notions of George Berkeley is a major event in Berkeley studies. For no commentator before Hill has gotten as close to Berkeley on this crucial subject, or shown how encompassing it is in Berkeley’s philosophy. * David Berman, Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland *A textually moored, historically contextualized and philosophically sophisticated reconstruction of Berkeley's puzzling doctrine of notions, our knowledge of ourselves, our acts, relations, number, virtue and God. Hill persuasively explains why Berkeley is part-empiricist and part-rationalist, and why his positive ontological views, not only his well-known immaterialism, deserve a closer look. * Samuel C. Rickless, Professor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Berkeley’s Predecessors on Self-Knowledge 3. A Notion of an Active Self 4. Notions and Innatism 5. Sense Perception: A Passive or an Active Power? 6. Berkeley’s Conceptual Dynamism 7. A Notion of Goodness 8. Number and the Notion of God Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller''A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read''The Telegraph''We can all benefit from Critchlow''s book''New Scientist''Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn''t just explain how our lives might pan out, it helps us live better''Bettany Hughes''A humane and highly readable account of the neuroscience that underpins our ideas of free will and fate''Professor David RuncimanSo many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn''t exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, who we fall in love with, even what we believe are not real choices at all? Neuroscience is challenging everything we think we know about ourselves, revealing how we make decisions and form our own reality, unaware of the role of our uncTrade Review'It's been the question that has inspired, stultified and petrified humanity across the millennia. What is our fate? From the goddess Nemesis to the theory of free will we've struggled. Until now. Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn't just explain how our lives might pan out, it helps us live better.' -- Bettany Hughes'A humane and highly readable account of the neuroscience that underpins our ideas of free will and fate' -- Professor David Runciman'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read' * The Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisA stunning book about mortality, connection, and the human condition from Ireland's best-loved memoiristTrade ReviewSearingly honest, funny, self-deprecating, Harding's narrative seems to rest on the pulse of Ireland - Irish Times on On Tuesdays I'm a BuddhistA compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch ... Harding writes like an angel - Sunday Times on Hanging with the ElephantHilarious, and tender, and mad, and harrowing, and wistful, and always beautifully written. A wonderful book - Kevin Barry on Staring at LakesWonderful ... Like many people who have achieved a great deal, [Harding] cannot recognise his triumphs. This book, like its predecessor, is one of them - John Boyne on Hanging with the ElephantA book that champions the kindness (or at least company of) strangers as essential for that elusive state known as happiness - RTE Guide on Talking to Strangers

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to answer why therehas there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'.

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Book SynopsisThis collection applies the characterisations of children and childhood made in Deleuze and Guattari's work to concerns that have shaped our idea of the child. Bringing together established and new voices, the authorsconsider aspects of children's lives such as time, language, gender, affect, religion, atmosphere and schooling.

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Book SynopsisRevisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through affects, actions and passions.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities.

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Book SynopsisRevitalising our reading of 18th century works specifically in the fields of the history of the book, literary studies, material culture, art history, philosophy, technology, science and medicine, this volume brings recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on the distributed nature of cognition.

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Book SynopsisWith a new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities, Christopher A. Shrock illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception. Shrock follow's Reid's lead in defending common sense philosophy against the problem of secondary qualities, which claims that our perceptions are only experiences in our brains, not of the world.

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Book SynopsisConcentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind..

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Book SynopsisThis book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'nave' readers.

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Book SynopsisExplores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.

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Book SynopsisAn enriching exploration of the questions which arose about humanity during the first three years of the Covid era. Written by a Goethean scholar based on a mountain in South Africa.

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Book SynopsisThis volume in the St Andrews series contains a collection of essays from leading authors regarding the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, in particular issues in mind and metaphysics, and can be considered a partner work to 2016''s The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (also published by Imprint Academic Ltd.).

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Book SynopsisInsides and Outsides brings together diverse aspects of animate nature, diverse not only in terms of animate nature itself, but in terms of areas of study. Indeed, the book lives up to the word "interdisciplinary" in its title. It brings together diverse academic perspectives within each chapter and across chapters, showing in each instance that scientific understandings of animate nature are or can be complementary to philosophical understandings. Thus insides and outsides, typically viewed as subjective vs. objective, mind vs. body, and self vs. other, are shown to be woven together in complex and subtle ways in the complexities and subtleties of animate life itself.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing more than 50 colour images, The Inner Rainbow takes the reader on an journey through time, from Ancient India to the present day. This is the journey of human consciousness - the story of an eternal, metamorphic process. As the author suggests, consciousness is not a self-contained, unchangeable faculty. The way we perceive the surrounding world today - with the potential for sophisticated and exact observation of natural phenomena - has evolved over thousands of years. What was once a blurred and fragmentary perception in the time of Ancient India has evolved to a clear awareness of everyday reality. Using pictures as his starting point, Henk van Oort outlines a remarkable narrative, beginning with the age-old myth of Noah's Ark, in which a rainbow is presented to the survivors of the Biblical flood. This rainbow in nature, with its seven colours, is mirrored in the ancient teaching of the seven human chakras, also with seven colours. Through a gradual process of change over centuries, this outer rainbow has been internalised into an inner rainbow, shaping a bridge between body, soul and spirit. With its ever-changing consciousness, this inner rainbow is a wonderful sense organ, in process of reaching a new peak of development. Understanding our past - the progressive stages we have passed through - is a prerequisite for optimal use of our consciousness now. Ultimately, then, this book can be seen as a guide for working with your own inner rainbow: to expand, deepen and enliven your picture of the world and your true self.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a study of digital computation in contemporary cognitive science. Digital computation is a highly ambiguous concept, as there is no common core definition for it in cognitive science. Since this concept plays a central role in cognitive theory, an adequate cognitive explanation requires an explicit account of digital computation. More specifically, it requires an account of how digital computation is implemented in physical systems. The main challenge is to deliver an account encompassing the multiple types of existing models of computation without ending up in pancomputationalism, that is, the view that every physical system is a digital computing system. This book shows that only two accounts, among the ones examined by the author, are adequate for explaining physical computation. One of them is the instructional information processing account, which is developed here for the first time."This book provides a thorough and timely analysis of differing accounts of computation while advancing the important role that information plays in understanding computation. Fresco’s two-pronged approach will appeal to philosophically inclined computer scientists who want to better understand common theoretical claims in cognitive science.”Marty J. Wolf, Professor of Computer Science, Bemidji State University “An original and admirably clear discussion of central issues in the foundations of contemporary cognitive science.” Frances Egan, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyTable of ContentsSetting the Stage: Computation in Cognitive Science.- An Analysis of the Adequacy Criteria for Evaluating Accounts of Computation.- Starting at the Beginning: Turing’s Account Examined.- The Triviality “Account” Examined.- Semantic Accounts of Computation Examined.- Computation as Information Processing.- Causal and Functional Accounts of Computation Examined.- Computation Revisited in the Context of Cognitive Science.

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Book SynopsisEinführung.- Gödels Unvollständigkeitssätze.- Praktische Urteile und formallogisches Schließen.- Die Beweise und ihre Zirkel.- Schluss.- Literatur.

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