Philosophy of mind Books

Book SynopsisCovers perennial philosophical problems such as the connection between mind and body; life after death; the role of reason; free will and determinism; the relationship between the individual and society; and the problem of relativism. This book is suitable for those interested in the theories that have affected the course of human history.Trade Review"Professor Trigg's book is clear, accurate and absorbing, well worth recommending to anyone seriously interested in finding out what sort of thing we might be thought to be." Stephen Clark, University of Liverpool ‘Trigg’s new edition offers the best introduction available to prominent approaches to human nature. It is lucid, accessible and comprehensive. The book will be highly engaging and instructive for undergraduate students from various disciplines.’ – Paul Moser; Loyola University Chicago ‘The great attractions of Roger Trigg’s book are its interdisciplinary character and its broad historical sweep, giving students a clear sense of both continuity and change in thought about fundamental issues concerning human nature. I don’t know of any other book which rivals it in these respects.’ – E. J. Lowe, University of DurhamTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition. Introduction. 1. Plato c. 429-347 BC. 2. Aristotle 384-322 BC. 3. Aquinas 1225-1274. 4. Hobbes 1588-1679. 5. Locke 1632-1704. 6. Hume 1711-1776. 7. Kant 1724- 804. 8. Darwin 1809-1882. 9. Marx 1818-1883. 10. Nietzsche 1844-1900. 11. Freud 1856-1939. 12. Wittgenstein 1889-1951. Conclusion to the Second Edition. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisCovers perennial philosophical problems such as the connection between mind and body; life after death; the role of reason; free will and determinism; the relationship between the individual and society; and the problem of relativism. This book is suitable for those interested in the theories that have affected the course of human history.Trade Review"Professor Trigg's book is clear, accurate and absorbing, well worth recommending to anyone seriously interested in finding out what sort of thing we might be thought to be." Stephen Clark, University of Liverpool ‘Trigg’s new edition offers the best introduction available to prominent approaches to human nature. It is lucid, accessible and comprehensive. The book will be highly engaging and instructive for undergraduate students from various disciplines.’ – Paul Moser; Loyola University Chicago ‘The great attractions of Roger Trigg’s book are its interdisciplinary character and its broad historical sweep, giving students a clear sense of both continuity and change in thought about fundamental issues concerning human nature. I don’t know of any other book which rivals it in these respects.’ – E. J. Lowe, University of DurhamTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition. Introduction. 1. Plato c. 429-347 BC. 2. Aristotle 384-322 BC. 3. Aquinas 1225-1274. 4. Hobbes 1588-1679. 5. Locke 1632-1704. 6. Hume 1711-1776. 7. Kant 1724- 804. 8. Darwin 1809-1882. 9. Marx 1818-1883. 10. Nietzsche 1844-1900. 11. Freud 1856-1939. 12. Wittgenstein 1889-1951. Conclusion to the Second Edition. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Provides a state of the art overview of philosophy of mind. * Contains 16 newly-commissioned articles, all of which are written by internationally distinguished scholars.Table of ContentsContributors. Introduction. 1. Mind/Body Problem I: Kirk Ludwig. 2. Mind/Body Problem II: William Lycan. 3. Physicalism: Andrew Melnyk. 4. Dualism: Howard Robinson. 5. Consciousness: David Chalmers. 6. Mental Representation: Fred Adams. 7. Cognitive Architecture: Ken Aizawa. 8. Concepts: Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence. 9. Mental Causation: John Heil. 10. Folk Psychology: Stephen P. Stich and Shaun Nichols. 11. Individualism: Robert Wilson. 12. Emotions: Paul Griffiths. 13. Artificial Intelligence: Andy Clark. 14. Philosophy of Mind and the Sciences: John Bickle. 15. Personal Identity: Eric Olson. 16. Free Will: Randolph Clarke. Index.

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Book SynopsisAccessible and authoritative account of a fast-developing inter-disciplinary research area. State-of-the-art papers by both psychologists and philosophers with a good mix of case studies and theory.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Pathologies of Belief: Martin Davies (Macquarie University) and Max Coltheart (Macquarie University). 2. Wondrous Strange: The Neuropsychology of Abnormal Beliefs: Andrew W. Young (University of York). 3. Towards an Understanding of Delusions of Misidentification: Four Case Studies: Nora Breen (Macquarie University), Diana Caine (Royal Prince Albert Hospital, Sydney, Australia), Max Coltheart (Macquarie University), Julie Hendy (Julie Hendy and Associates, Sydney, Australia) and Corrine Roberts (Julie Hendy and Associates, Sydney, Australia). 4. Refining the Explanation of Cotard's Delusion: Philip Gerrans (Victoria University). 5. Insights into Theory of Mind from Deafness and Autism: Candida C. Peterson (University of Queensland) and Michael Siegal (University of Sheffield). 6. Schizophrenia and Rationality: Ian Gold (Monash University) and Jakob Hohwy (LaTrobe University). 7. Imagination, Delusion and Hallucination: Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham). 8. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Delusions: Robyn Langdon (Macquarie University) and Max Coltheart (Macquarie University).

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Book SynopsisStarting with its tenth (2000) volume, Philosophical Issues will be a yearly one-volume supplement to Noûs. Each year it will be devoted to invited papers and book symposia in a specific area of philosophy. The yearly has attained distinction through the uniformly high quality of its previous nine volumes and the fact that its authors include many of the most distinguished philosophers active today. The topic of Volume 10 is controversies at the interface of epistemology with philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, including discussion of the sorites paradox and linguistic contextualism on attributions of knowledge.Table of Contents1 Skepticism and Contextualism. (Ernest Sosa). 2 Skepticism, Tracking, and Warrant. (James E. Tomberlin). 3 The Contextualist Evasion of Epistemology. (Hilary Kornblith). 4 Sensitivity, Indiscernibility And Knowledge. (Keith Leher). 5 Replies. (Ernest Sosa). 6 Contextualism and Externalism: Trading in One Form of Skepticism for Another. (Robert J. Fogelin). 7 Scrutinizing a Trade. (Jay F. Rosenberg). 8 What Has Contexualism to Do with Skepticism? (Enrique Villanueva). 9 What Has Contexualism and Levels of Scrutiny. (Luis M. Valdes- Villanueva). 10 Is Contextualism Stable ? (Micheal J. Williams). 11 Replies. (Robert J. Fogelin). 12 Contextualism and Skipticism. (Stewart Cohen). 13 Contextualism and the Real Nature of Academic Skipticism. (Peter D. Klein). 14 Reply to Cohen. (John Hawthorne). 15 Scepticism, Contextualism and Closure. (Josep L. Prades). 16 Replies. (Stewart Cohen). 17 Cogency and Question-Begging: Some Reflections on McKinsey’s Paradox. and Putnam’s Proof. (Crispin Wright). 18 On Wright ‘s Diagnosis of McKinsey’s Argument. (Alfonso Garcia Suarez). 19 Transmission and Closure. (Bob Hale). 20 Warrant-Transmission, Defeaters and Disquotations. (R.M. Sainsbury). 21 Replies. (Crispin Wright). 22 Vagueness and Partial Belief. (Stephen Schiffer). 23 Vagueness and Indirect Disclosure. (Manuel Garcia- Carpintero). 24 Stephen Schiffer’s Theory of Vagueness. (Paul Horwich). 25 Vagueness as a Psychological Notion. (Lourdes Valdivia). 26 Partial Belief and Borderline Cases. (Jorges Rodriguez Marqueze). 27 Vagueness- Related Attitudes. (David Barett). 28 Replies. (Stephen Schiffer). 29 Scepticism and the Principle of Inferential Justification. (John Greco). 30 Scepticism and Epistemic Kinds. (John Greco). 31 The Principle of Inferential Justification,Scepticism and Causal Beliefs. (Josep E. Corbi). 32 Memory and Justification: Hookway and Fumerton on Scepticism. (Carlos J. Moya and Tobies Grimaltos. 33 Replies. (Christopher Hookway). Contributor.

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Book Synopsis* Discusses the relationship between meaning and representation. * Illustrates the differences that exist on the question of how formal representations relate to semantic representations. * Includes contributions by Tim Crane, Jerry Fodor, Paul Horwich, John Hyman, Ernie Lepore, Gregory McCulloch and Mark Sainsbury.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Emma Borg. -ings and -ers: John Hyman. Let the Vat-Brains Speak for Themselves: Gregory McCulloch. Intentional Objects: Tim Crane. Why Compositionality Won't Go Away: Reflections on Horwich's 'Deflationary' Theory: Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore. Deflating Compositionality: Paul Horwich. Two Ways to Smoke a Cigarette: R. M. Sainsbury

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Book SynopsisDo people with mental disorders share enough psychology with other people to make human interpretation possible? Jonathan Glover tackles the hard cases—violent criminals, people with delusions, autism, schizophrenia—to answer affirmatively. He offers values linked with agency and identity to guide how the boundaries of psychiatry should be drawn.Trade Review[An] interesting and readable book, the professed aims of which are to make mental health patients seem less alien and to emphasize the role of the humane and the humanities in psychiatry… Admirable. -- Iain McGilchrist * Literary Review *A wide-ranging philosophical investigation of psychology and a psychological examination of philosophy. -- Jonathon Keats * New Scientist *A searching, humane look at the lives of the mentally ill, whose inner worlds can be alien landscapes indeed. Examining a population of hospitalized patients in Britain, ethicist Glover asks whether it is true that people who suffer from anti‐social disorders are truly without conscience or whether it might not be that their moral world simply maps onto different territory from other people’s—an important distinction in considering such things as the ability to recognize right from wrong and accept responsibility for one’s actions. * Kirkus Reviews *Glover attempts a close encounter of the intellectual kind as he probes the ethical aspects of mental disorders and opens up new terrain in an age‐old discussion. Responding to the long‐standing discord between humanist and scientific perspectives on mental illness—an imbalance that consistently favors science—Glover aims to restore humanist views to the discussion through a sensitive examination of art, literature, and, perhaps most noteworthy, interviews with people who have mental disorders… For the philosophically inclined, Glover’s exploration will prove to be an exciting and informative text. * Publishers Weekly *A great read, and genuinely illuminating on the inner lives of patients with disorders, and their implications for responsibility and identity. This book is for all of us who have had the impulse to write off someone as ‘crazy,’ meaning: there isn’t any point in trying to engage or understand what’s going on with this person. This is a timely and well-crafted book. -- John Campbell, University of California, BerkeleyThis book should become a classic in the study of philosophy and psychiatry. The lucidity of the writing makes it, at once, profound and accessible. While acknowledging the substantial contribution of the biological sciences to our understanding of unusual mental states, Glover explores in depth how far an observer can make sense of—or ‘interpret’—them. The implications for how we might think about ‘values,’ ‘identity,’ ‘agency,’ the boundaries of ‘illness,’ and treatment are most richly drawn. -- George Szmukler, King’s College London

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Book SynopsisScience has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.Trade ReviewNikki Skillman’s clear and eloquent book reshapes the landscape of modern American poetry. It explores the distinctiveness of poets’ engagement with the experience of mind, whether as embattled defenders of human mystery or shrewd explorers of synapses. -- Jonathan Culler, Cornell UniversityThis important book argues that advances in brain science have made for significant changes in American poetry since the 1960s. Skillman’s writing is eloquent, often beautiful, meticulously alert to detail, and her judgments are sound and sensitive. -- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia

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Book SynopsisPhilosopher John Campbell argues that humans are unique in our ability to imagine singular causation. While robots and nonhuman animals rely on general axioms concerning what causes what, humans can imagine the specific causes of specific outcomes. This suggests that even lifelike artificial intelligence will never truly empathize with humans.Trade ReviewI found this book highly engaging. The parts about Karl Jaspers and social robots are packed with insights that will make you nod and smile. Campbell argues that singular causation in the mind cannot be analyzed in terms of general causation, but instead is brought to light by human practices that rely on our imaginative understanding of ‘the ballistics of people’s thoughts and feelings.’ These practices include attempts to reach legal verdicts beyond a reasonable doubt about people’s motives. The book is accessible, it discusses a range of long-standing philosophical problems about action and interpretation, and no one will drown in technical details. It’s simply fantastic. -- Susanna Siegel, Harvard UniversityThere is a simplicity and directness with which John Campbell introduces and pursues material that has become cluttered and blocked in much philosophical discussion that has lost sight of the fundamental problems motivating such discussion in the first place. Causation in Psychology offers genuine, true solutions that should change the philosophical landscape for good. A fascinating, deeply original book. -- Bill Brewer, King’s College London

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Book SynopsisLiving with Robots recounts a foundational shift in robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. As robots engage with people in socially meaningful ways, social robotics probes the nature of the human emotions that social robots are designed to emulate.Trade ReviewOffers insight into problems raised by advances in robotics and artificial intelligence that will be faced by future societies. Throughout the book, the authors provide a conceptual framework for thinking about possible scenarios of human–robot interactions, most extensively with regard to our relationships with social robots… Living with Robots will meet various expectations, uniting the intellectual depth of a carefully documented academic treatise with the pleasure of a casual page-turner. Those in search of cultural erudition are provided with myriad references to books and movies, and those with a taste for technical novelty are treated to fascinating descriptions of the most hi-tech social robots. -- Paula Quinon * Science *A thoughtful and engaging discussion about an emerging area in applied ethics—social robotics… A timely and well-written volume that addresses many contemporary and future moral questions regarding how we treat artificial intelligence. -- William Simkulet * Library Journal *A very substantial philosophical study. * Philosophie Magazine *One should not lose sight of the prospective and speculative aspect of the research and ideas of Dumouchel and Damiano. But their work is nevertheless remarkably profound and intelligent, and it provides us, as do all serious inquiries into robotics, with a better understanding of ourselves, especially the social aspect of our minds. Even if one might doubt that social robots could ever decipher the incredible complexity of our feelings and adapt to them, this project nevertheless represents a fascinating step, less in robotics itself than in the quest for the human mind to understand itself. * Le Temps *Living with Robots is a convincing reflection on the increasing presence of robots in society. Designed to operate in an environment shaped and occupied by humans, robots are the new actors in a technical, social, and cultural transformation. The book offers a distinctive and fruitful approach to social robotics through different theoretical frameworks, analyzing the implications of interactions between humans and robots, between humans via robots, and between robots themselves. -- Zaven Paré, Rio de Janeiro State UniversityLiving with Robots is a timely and fascinating examination of social robots that exist in the real world, have bodies, and interact with human beings. While addressing the practical functions of social robots, at its heart the book is deeply philosophical. The authors invite us to reflect on the nature of human beings, mind, and sociability, as well as the human–robot dynamics of emotional relationships. This gives rise to novel and important engagement with moral and political questions, from quality of life to military applications. -- Takanori Shibata, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology[Dumouchel and Damiano’s] book takes us on a detailed tour of the philosophy of artificial intelligence (AI)—especially as it applies to robots intended to build social relationships with humanity. This is a work of serious scholarship, with arguments about identity, authority, autonomy and what is termed ‘artificial empathy’ presented with reference to a range of example systems. Kant, Descartes, Hobbes and other philosophical heavyweights get the exposure you might expect, but when set alongside the views of such disparate players as psychologist Jean Piaget and science-fiction writer Algis Budrys the analysis offers considerable breadth…If we are to build a robust, appropriate ethical structure around the next generation of technical development—some combination of deep learning, artificial intelligence, robotics and artificial empathy—we need to understand that managing the impact of these technologies is far too important to be left to those who are enthusiastically engaged in producing them. This book is both a comprehensive, engaging review of philosophical thought and a warning to anyone who thinks that the integration of robotics into our society is about technology alone. -- John Gilbey * Times Higher Education *

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Book SynopsisBreaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. Intense states have come to be seen as symptoms of pathology. From Aristotle to Hume to contemporary biology, this work finds evidence that the passions have defined a core of human nature no less important than reason or desire.Trade Review"I revelled in the new book by the brilliant American critic Philip Fisher, The Vehement Passions, which is about nothing less than what the title promises: thoroughness, rashness, fear, anger, grief, and more."--Susan Sontag, Times Literary Supplement "With this persuasive and elegant essay on the paradigmatic human passions of fear, anger, grief, and wonder, Harvard University English professor Fisher joins a growing group of scholars bent on emotional rehabilitation: restoring to respectability the emotions so distrusted by Enlightenment rationalism and the forms of Stoicism that pre-date it... It's also ... delightful. Fisher ingeniously mixes discussion of Achilles, Oedipus, Othello, Lear, and Ahab with careful critical assessments of Kantian ethics, rational choice theory, and the philosophical underpinnings of the legal system."--Mark Kingwell, Wilson Quarterly "A consistently engaging book... [It] manages to present a wealth of information in an admirably clear and accessible format... People outside of universities curious about how the emotions regularly manage to dominate our thinking and planning will enjoy this overview of a fascinating field."--Virginia Quarterly Review "A stimulating and provocative book, whose strength lies precisely in the compact selectivity with which it argues its case for the vehement passions."--John Higgins, The Times Higher Education Supplement "Philip Fisher's new book ... makes a daring case for the continued relevance of pre-Christian ideas about the passions. His argument is that we underestimate the positive potential of the 'vehement passions' long understood only as forces that must be suppressed or redirected if we are to develop healthy minds in a benevolent world."--David Simpson, London Review of Books "The Vehement Passions by Philip Fisher is one of those rare books that carries the unmistakable whiff of real originality ... one filled with striking insights, wide learning, unexpected correlations and connections that illuminate much in life and literature that we may have only half noticed... Page after page offers broad yet precise and often startling generalizations of the sort that made me first pause, then nod in assent."--Jeff Gundy, Georgia ReviewTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION 1 ONE: Passions,Strong Emotions, Vehement Occasions 12 TWO: Paths among the Passions 28 THREE: Thoroughness 40 FOUR: Privacy,Radical Singularity 53 FIVE: Time 71 SIX: Rashness 93 SEVEN: Mutual Fear 109 EIGHT: The Aesthetics of Fear 132 NINE: The Radius of the Will 157 TEN: Anger and Diminution 171 ELEVEN: Grief 199 TWELVE: Spiritedness 227 CONCLUSION 246 NOTES 253 AUTHOR INDEX 263 INDEX OF TERMS 266

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Mosaic's Best Books of 2018 (Moshe Koppel)""Highly recommended."---Jonathan Schofer, Reading Religion

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To know the meaning of a sentence or the content of a belief requires knowing which things it repreTrade Review"By incorporating elements of philosophy of mind into language and metaphysics, this book represents an important turn in thinking about propositions. The book is certain to have a significant impact in discussions of logic, language, and mind in 21st-century analytic philosophy."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chapter 1 The Need for New Foundations 1 Chapter 2 The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Information 15 Chapter 3 Thinking of Oneself, the Present Moment, and the Actual World-State 46 Chapter 4 Linguistic Cognition, Understanding, and Millian Modes of Presentation 67 Chapter 5 Perceptual and Demonstrative Modes of Presentation 96 Chapter 6 Recognition of Recurrence 117 Chapter 7 Believing, Asserting, and Communicating Propositions of Limited Accessibility 143 Chapter 8 Recognition of Recurrence Revisited 156 Chapter 9 Situating Cognitive Propositions in a Broader Context 164 Chapter 10 Overcoming Objections 208 Chapter 11 Worries, Opportunities, and Unsolved Problems 225 References 235 Index 239

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Book SynopsisThe Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditionalTrade Review"Brooke Holmes' volume is a wonderful read that would be enjoyed not only by scholars but also by people interested in the history of ideas in the Greek world. I also think that such a work must be a source for any future analysis of the concepts of person, soul, and body in Greek philosophy and literature."--Octavian Gabor, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Historians of ancient medicine and scholars of Greek tragedy will find this carefully documented book of great interest."--M. Lynn Rose, American Historical Review "This is not the type of book one can read in a single sitting; rather, it is a work one will want to study, reread, and revisit over a period of time. It will no doubt become a point of reference for anyone interested in the body in the ancient world."--Laurence Totelin, Isis "This is a splendid book, deeply researched and meticulously executed; it is also compact, complex, and defiant of efforts to summarize."--Ann Ellis Hanson, New England Classical Journal "The book is a remarkable example of scholarship, and ought to be welcomed by ancient philosophers, particularly those who work in moral psychology and embodiment."--Aaron James Landry, Philosophy in Review "[A]mbitious and compelling... [R]ichly provocative."--Joel Alden Schlosser, Foucault Studies "Holmes has written a wide-ranging and thorough book on the emergence of the concept of the body as a physical object in Ancient Greece. The primary and secondary sources consulted are extensive ... making this work most useful for a scholar already knowledgeable in the body soul argument. The language used and the concepts raised make for intense reading at times, but this book provides a systematic analysis of the concept of the body, a frequently ignored part of a significant Greek belief: the body-soul dichotomy."--Miriam Bissett, Prudentia Offprint "Holmes provides a timely new avenue for putting ancient medicine centrally on the map of classical Greek thought... Specialists in ancient medicine should be glad to have such an articulate and intelligent advocate trying not only to bridge the gaps among subfields of Hellenic studies but making connections to Foucault and the 'mind-body problem' that we have inherited ... from Plato and Descartes."--Susan H. Prince, Aestimatio "[I]t is a richly argued and instructive work... [I]ts value lies in its synthesis and breadth of the sources. The material Holmes has gathered, not only medical and philosophical, but also literary, backed by solid bibliographical reference throughout and presented through a thorough examination, is impressive, making the volume a stimulating read from a variety of perspectives."--Chiara Thumiger, Classical WorldTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Note on Transliterations and Translations xxiii INTRODUCTION 1 Symptoms and Subjects 1 Seeing through Symptoms 9 The Physical Imagination 19 Rethinking S?ma and Psukh? 29 Telling Stories 37 CHAPTER ONE: Before the Physical Body 41 Daemonic Violence 48 The Seen and the Felt 58 The Boundaries of the Felt 64 Fear and the Visual Field of the Self 69 How Gods Act 73 The Seen Body and Social Agency 76 Interpreting Disease and Practices of Healing 79 CHAPTER TWO: The Inquiry into Nature and the Physical Imagination 84 Depersonalizing Causes 90 Natural Justice 95 Melissus and the Denial of Body 101 A Community of Objects 108 Bodies, Persons, Knowledge 116 CHAPTER THREE: Incorporating the Daemonic 121 Symptoms at the Th reshold of Seen and Unseen 126 The Interval 130 Explaining Disease 133 The Dynamics of the Cavity 138 The Automatic Body 142 CHAPTER FOUR: Signs of Life and Techniques of Taking Care 148 The Prognostic Symptom: Forces of Life and Death 150 Fragile Life 156 On Ancient Medicine and the Discovery of Human Nature 162 Embodiment, Knowledge, and Technical Agency 171 Taking Care 177 Shoring Up the Self 182 CHAPTER FIVE: Beyond the S?ma: Therapies of the Psukh? 192 Bodily Needs 196 Psychic Desires 202 Gorgias's Encomium to Helen and Human Diseases 211 Psychic Disorder in Democritus 216 CHAPTER SIX: Forces of Nature, Acts of Gods: Euripides' Symptoms 228 The Polysemy of the Symptom 233 Tragedy and the Interval 239 Euripides' Causes: Th e Madness of Heracles 242 Euripides' Causes: Th e Madness of Orestes 246 Realizing Disease in the Hippolytus 252 Daemonic Phusis 260 The Semantics of Suff ering 265 Conclusion 275 Bibliography 281 Index Locorum 325 General Index 349

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By incorporating elements of philosophy of mind into language and metaphysics, this book represents an important turn in thinking about propositions. The book is certain to have a significant impact in discussions of logic, language, and mind in 21st-century analytic philosophy." * Choice *"This book provides an up-to-date and coherent version of Soames' theory of propositions. . . . However, this work is far from being just the result of collecting together the author’s previous achievement in this field. On the contrary, it contains an original proposal while also representing years of research in a systematic and persuasive essay."---Edoardo Rivello, MathSciNet

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mariana Alessandri explores our culture’s obsession with ‘toxic positivity’ and our fear of darker emotions like grief, anxiety and depression. . . . Instead of encouraging our loved ones to 'stay positive,' maybe it’s worth sitting with someone in their darkness."---Kira Condee-Padunova, NPR"Alessandri offers a very different understanding of clinical mood disorders, one that at first seems like bad news but ultimately proves comforting, even uplifting. . . . Alessandri makes her argument through a series of biographical sketches. . . . [she] relates these stories with insight and sensitivity. In doing so she makes a persuasive case against the superficiality of 'don’t worry, be happy' peppiness. . . . Alessandri certainly does us a service in calling attention to the value of dark moods. We do need better night vision."---Andrew Stark, Wall Street Journal"A compelling, philosophically sound case for finding ‘dignity’ and strength in the discomforting emotions that are a natural part of the human condition. . . . Through insightful observations of temperaments at the dark end of the emotional spectrum, Night Vision reminds readers that our humanity is only truly visible in the dark and that the darkness is where we emotionally grow."---Shahina Piyarali, Shelf Awareness"Vigorous, deeply personal, and provocative."---Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today"In Night Vision, Alessandri moves the needle from normalizing mental health issues to revering them. If her points resonate, you may find yourself feeling less shame and blame when ‘stay positive’ just isn’t working." * TheSkimm *"This is the book to read this season." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisEmotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and structure our relationships with others.Trade Review"In this short book Carolyn Price elegantly condenses a sophisticated understanding of the philosophy of emotion into eight very readable chapters. While offering a novel explanation and defence of a functionalist, teleosemantic position, the book also situates this position clearly and fairly in wider philosophical debates about emotion. As such, Price's measured assessments of alternative positions also offer an excellent introduction to readers who are new to this important and emerging topic. The book will be stimulating reading for students and researchers alike." Christopher Bennett, University of Sheffield "This is a splendid book: clearly written, empirically informed, philosophically astute, and a pleasure to read. It contains a wealth of good arguments, and makes interesting and original points on all of the central issues in the philosophy of emotion. Highly recommended."Michael Brady, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Four theories of emotion Chapter 3 Emotion, coherence and function Chapter 4 What is an emotion? Chapter 5 What is an emotional evaluation? Chapter 6 What are emotional evaluations about? Chapter 7 The rationality of emotion Chapter 8 The manipulation of emotion Conclusion Glossary Notes References

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Book SynopsisEmotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and structure our relationships with others.Trade Review"In this short book Carolyn Price elegantly condenses a sophisticated understanding of the philosophy of emotion into eight very readable chapters. While offering a novel explanation and defence of a functionalist, teleosemantic position, the book also situates this position clearly and fairly in wider philosophical debates about emotion. As such, Price's measured assessments of alternative positions also offer an excellent introduction to readers who are new to this important and emerging topic. The book will be stimulating reading for students and researchers alike." Christopher Bennett, University of Sheffield "This is a splendid book: clearly written, empirically informed, philosophically astute, and a pleasure to read. It contains a wealth of good arguments, and makes interesting and original points on all of the central issues in the philosophy of emotion. Highly recommended."Michael Brady, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Four theories of emotion Chapter 3 Emotion, coherence and function Chapter 4 What is an emotion? Chapter 5 What is an emotional evaluation? Chapter 6 What are emotional evaluations about? Chapter 7 The rationality of emotion Chapter 8 The manipulation of emotion Conclusion Glossary Notes References

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Book SynopsisIn this work, Kathleen V. Wider discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of consciousness in Being and Nothingness in light of recent work by analytic philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists.Trade ReviewA coherent and convincing theory of consciousness. * The Review of Metaphysics *Wider's discussion is coherent, detailed, and fascinating, and her account of recent work on consciousness and embodiment is well informed. A major strength of her book is its clarity, both organizational and conceptual. She writes in a direct and unpretentious style, and presents frequent summaries and reminders of earlier points, so the intricacies of the argument are easy to follow. -- Natika Newton, Suffolk County Community College * Behavior and Philosophy *This book is a complex and intriguing work. Wider has woven a sustained argument from a wealth of scholarly material drawn from distinct traditions in support of her two interrelated theses: that consciousness is invariably self-consciousness and that the body is the subject of self-consciousness... It certainly challenges students of Sartre to reconsider his notion of human freedom in light of our incarnate nature. -- Elizabeth Murray Morelli * Sartre Studies Interantional *This book is a product of that all too rare blindness to the boundary separating philosophy into analytic and continental; if not a blindness, then a healthy disregard... Wider's open-mindedness and expansive erudition find their rewards in a treatment of the issues raised that is likely to appeal to any philosophy convinced that an acknowledgement of both first-person and third-person perspectives is necessary for an understanding of mind. -- Maurice Larkin, University College Dublin * International Journal of Philosophical Studies *A thoughtful book.... Wider does a great job of guiding the reader through her theses and presenting clearly written arguments. * Philosophy in Review *

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Book SynopsisThrough extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of being a person from European antiquity to Descartes.Trade Review"Reiss has masterfully woven together various threads of personhood into a powerful work on the self . . . This is a work that readers will ponder long after they finish the final page." -- Comitatus

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Book SynopsisDesire and Distance constitutes an important new departure in contemporary phenomenological thought, a rethinking and critique of basic philosophical positions concerning the concept of perception presented by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, though it departs in significant and original ways from their work. Barbaras''s overall goal is to develop a philosophy of what life isone that would do justice to the question of embodiment and its role in perception and the formation of the human subject. Barbaras posits that desire and distance inform the concept of life. Levinas identified a similar structure in Descartes''s notion of the infinite. For Barbaras, desire and distance are anchored not in meaning, but in a rethinking of the philosophy of biology and, in consequence, cosmology.Barbaras elaborates and extends the formal structure of desire and distance by drawing on motifs as yet unexplored in the French phenomenological tradition, especially the notions of life and the lTrade Review"Desire and Distance is based on recent research and presents new ideas on the problem of perception—ideas that are quite enticing. Barbaras is the world's leading Merleau-Ponty scholar, but what makes this book remarkable and philosophically important is that Barbaras distances himself from Merleau-Ponty and develops his own set of concepts with a high level of originality. In my opinion, Barbaras' book is remarkable." —Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis"As an attempt to grasp the specificity of the phenomenon as it comes to be, that of the world within which it appears, and that of the subject to whom it becomes apparent, Desire and Distance is an ambitious, dense, rigorously argued work of philosophy in the phenomenological tradition, certainly amongst the most original of recent years." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus philosophiquesTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction: The Problem of Perception 000 1. A Critique of Transcendental Phenomenology 000 2. Phenomenological Reduction as Critique of Nothingness 000 3. The Three Moments of Appearance 000 4. Perception and Living Movement 000 5. Desire as the Essence of Subjectivity 000 Conclusion 000 Author's Afterword 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index of Names 000

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Book SynopsisThis book is the companion to Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford University Press, 2000), which dealt with the psychoanalytic clinical problem of resistance to interpretation. The key to this resistance is the unconscious registration and repudiation (disavowal) of the reality of difference. The surprising generality of this resistance intersects with Nietzsche''s, Heidegger''s, and Derrida''s understanding of how and why difference is in general the unthought of metaphysics. All three see metaphysics engaged with a registration and repudiation of difference, and all three rethink interpretation in relation to this question. The synthesis of these theories of interpretation and difference provides the philosophical foundations for a new thinking of how interpretation functions, and is a critical intersection of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Trade Review"This work opens up and defines an area of research that until now has been only present latently. Bass situates Freud and psychoanalytic interpretation in proximity to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. The result is original and groundbreaking and should be of interest to a wide swath of readers–philosophers, critical theorists of all disciplines, and thoughtful psychoanalysts." -- Donald Moss, M.D. * New York University Psychoanalytic Institute *"This book is a striking philosophical interrogation of the practivce of psychoanalysis...I am convinced that Bass has opened up some new possibilities for further critical dialogue between philosophy and psychoanalysis." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus PhilosophiquesTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Introduction iii @toc2:Chapter One Nietzsche: Active Interpretation 000 Chapter Two Heidegger: Descriptive Interpretation 000 Chapter Three Derrida: Spectral, Binding Interpretation 000 @toc4:References 000 Notes 000

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Book SynopsisIn this book, William Egginton argues for the centrality of a psychoanalytic notion of interpretation for philosophy and literary theory.Trade Review"Egginton provides a thorough but theoretical discussion of the notion of interpretation as it relates to literary and philosophical texts. Relying on the work of major literary, psychoanalytic, and cultural critics, Egginton problematizes the idea that authors can be distinct from their interpretations... [A] valuable contribution to the study of literature, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies." -- CHOICE"This tightly wound and carefully crafted treatise reads like wonderful detective fiction. It brings together dominant twentieth-century interpretive practices usually understood to be in opposition to one another in order to focus on a singular object of interpretation they have in common: that of the philosopher's desire. In tying together psychoanalysis, phenomenological hermeneutics, deconstruction, and literary practice, this book makes a significant contribution to the current fields of psychoanalysis and criticism in general and establishes its author as a leading theorist of psychoanalytic commentary." -- Gregg Lambert * Syracuse University *Table of ContentsTable of Contents: Acknowledgments xxx Prologue: interpretive strings 1 1. The interpretation string The bi-polar logos - The awakening - The fault-line 2. The psychosis string The incommunicable world - The exclusion of the Other / Reality and Uncertainty / Psychosis and interpretation / To space or not to space 3. The purloined string Death and the Signifier / Truth to the letter / The racketeer of truth 4. The temporality string Of time and spacing / Vulgar time / Original time / Memorious time Epilogue: The sense of certainties to come Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, William Egginton argues for the centrality of a psychoanalytic notion of interpretation for philosophy and literary theory.Trade Review"Egginton provides a thorough but theoretical discussion of the notion of interpretation as it relates to literary and philosophical texts. Relying on the work of major literary, psychoanalytic, and cultural critics, Egginton problematizes the idea that authors can be distinct from their interpretations... [A] valuable contribution to the study of literature, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies." -- CHOICE"This tightly wound and carefully crafted treatise reads like wonderful detective fiction. It brings together dominant twentieth-century interpretive practices usually understood to be in opposition to one another in order to focus on a singular object of interpretation they have in common: that of the philosopher's desire. In tying together psychoanalysis, phenomenological hermeneutics, deconstruction, and literary practice, this book makes a significant contribution to the current fields of psychoanalysis and criticism in general and establishes its author as a leading theorist of psychoanalytic commentary." -- Gregg LambertTable of ContentsTable of Contents: Acknowledgments xxx Prologue: interpretive strings 1 1. The interpretation string The bi-polar logos - The awakening - The fault-line 2. The psychosis string The incommunicable world - The exclusion of the Other / Reality and Uncertainty / Psychosis and interpretation / To space or not to space 3. The purloined string Death and the Signifier / Truth to the letter / The racketeer of truth 4. The temporality string Of time and spacing / Vulgar time / Original time / Memorious time Epilogue: The sense of certainties to come Notes Index

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Book SynopsisActions and Objects, which treats the literature and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, engages key past and current debates about consciousness, materialism, and mental causation.Trade Review"As a philosopher and cognitive scientist, I read Jonathan Kramnick's book Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson with mounting excitement. He makes a compelling case that Rochester's late-seventeenth-century erotic poetry—on such topics as unwelcome episodes of impotence or random sexual encounters in London's public parks—can and should be read as making innovative contributions to then flourishing debates about the nature of mind, the person and agency. What's more, Kramnick shows that these earlier debates continue to shape our engagement today with these same topics. If Kramnick is right, then contemporary philosophy of mind needs to take a new look at these old literatures. But there is a more far-reaching upshot: Kramnick describes a world where there were no sharp lines to be drawn between the work of theory and the work of the literary artist. Perhaps this too ought to serve as a model for us today? Maybe it is time for us to bridge the gap that separates the concerns and methods of science and those of literature in contemporary society. Kramnick's book is more than intellectual history. It actively engages with these important issues." -- Alva Noe, University of California * Berkeley" *"Excellent close readings. . . unassuming and understated prose. . . fresh approach. . . Its full contents will be picked over for some time." -- Heather Zias"[Kramnick's] book features incisive, surprising interpretations of texts that span the Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century—as he puts it, between 'Hobbes and Hume' and 'Rochester and Richardson'. The close readings are the signature of the book (and particularly impressive are Kramnick's sensitive considerations of mind and action, internal and external, first-person and third-person narration in Clarissa), but its principal supposition is what makes it groundbreaking for the field." -- Devoney Looser * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"The legacy of Descartes's mind-body problem looms in this careful examination of Restoration and 18th-century theories of the mind's relationship to physical actions . . . Kramnick calls attention to 'the largely unacknowledged role of external factors in the period's conception of mind.' He finds textual evidence that philosophers and writers of the period believed human physical actions were causally connected to the mind in a way analogous to cause-effect phenomena in the material universe . . . Recommended." -- C. J. Bell * CHOICE *"Actions and Objects will set the standard in its fields for a generation. It is a serious and learned book whose subtle arguments and core wisdom will work their way into the collective consciousness of eighteenth-century literary studies, of the history of the philosophy of action, and of philosophical literary studies more generally." -- Blakey Vermeule * Stanford University *"Kramnick synthesizes key Enlightenment philosophical debates with an admirable clarity and lively style that make Actions and Objects both enjoyable to read and eminently teachable . . . [E]xcellent." -- Sara Landreth"Jonathan Kramnick's Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson is a nuanced and wide-reaching account of consciousness, materialism, and agency in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy. . . While Kramnick focuses on certain mainstays of literary criticism—character, personhood, consciousness—he nevertheless offers novel accounts of these subjects. . . Kramnick makes a compelling case for reading Restoration and eighteenth-century texts alongside contemporary philosophy and the science of mind." -- Keiser * Configurations *"One of the virtues of this book is that it strives to keep this array of questions open as a field of problematization, rather than charting the increased consolidatioin of categories across the period in the way many genealogies have done. . . It is in moments like these—where Kramnick strives to show why hard questions of action and personhood are posed in literary rather than in philosophical forms—that his book seems most justified as a contribution to literary history." -- Daniel Jump * Restoration *Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson is a compelling account of 'the literature and philosophy of action,' taking up texts that explore actions relative to 'the problems around consciousness and mental causation.' Jonathan Kramnick is learned without show; he has the gift of making complex philosophical and theoretical issues both interesting and readily sortable. His lively tour involves texts from Hobbes, Rochester, and Locke to Pope, Haywood, Trotter, and Richardson. This is intellectual history and literary criticism at its best." -- J. Paul Hunter * University of Virginia *"[F]ine and informative . . . [Kramnick] succeeds in his major ambition to qualify, in important and interesting ways, the widely held view that during the long eighteenth century, selfhood and consciousness were conceived as immaterial things that existed within an interior space and that were untouched by the material, force and necessity of the world." -- William Walker * Eighteenth-Century Life *"[L]ucid . . . Actions and Objects is compelling and gracefully written . . . [This is not] a mere study of how writers reflect their contemporaries' theories of mind. Rather, Actions and Objects considers how literature and literary studies alike can put hard problems into practice, test them out, add to their complexities, and refashion them in new and intriguing ways." -- Crystal B. Lake * Eighteenth-Century Studies *"Actions and Objects offers a startlingly original conceptualization of the eighteenth-century canon. Working with grace, imagination and rigor, Kramnick exemplifies the best of old- and new-fashioned scholarship in showing us an era preoccupied with and embattled about the person as an object, a material thing made of moving parts, whose actions are subject to external forces and perhaps disconnected from inner awareness and intention. This book, long awaited, will reward any intelligent reader who is willing to think." -- Helen Deutsch, University of California * Los Angeles *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A terrific contribution to the growing literature on theater and philosophy, The Mind-Body Stage shows us a Descartes who writes ballet and who sees his thought dramatized by Corneille and enacted by Moliere. Far from being mortal enemies, theater and philosophy engage in a passionate pas de deux from which emerges nothing less than a Cartesian Theater." -- Martin Puchner * Harvard University *"R. Darren Gobert's elegant and convincing The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater represents a significant scholarly and stylistic accomplishment that the members of the Ann Saddlemyer Award committee are pleased to elect as the winner for 2014. Gobert stages a generative incursion into contemporary and historical discussions around the complex relationship between theatre and philosophy by first demonstrating how theatre scholars have paid insufficient attention to Descartes' transformational impact on theatre history, and how for their part philosophers have generally not thoroughly investigated the cultural impact and reception of Descartes' thought. The contributions the volume makes to theatre studies and performance studies, as well as to the emerging discourse of performance philosophy, are significant. Gobert's extensive archival and theoretical engagements demonstrate the lack of veracity underpinning our currently dominant scholarly shorthand of 'Cartesian' as that which would establish a bifurcated relationship between 'mind' and 'body'. Descartes' exchange of letters with Elizabeth of Bohemia is shown to be key to a developing momentum of insights around mind-body interaction that leads the late Descartes to increasingly centralize the body as an epistemological nexus. Ballet and theatre are understood to be key sites of the manifestation of the body's capacity for generating joyful experience and memory. Gobert's acute analysis of Descartes' paradigm-shifting impact on playwriting is traced through the work of Corneille and John Dryden respectively. Descartes' significant contributions to thinking around acting are shown to have influenced an entire genealogy of writing and performance practice in France and in England, and by extension an entire practice of European theatre architecture. Overall, the text is an exemplar of finely-tuned, witty and compelling scholarship that will most certainly have a significant influence a variety of fields." * The Ann Saddlemyer Award *"With the publication of Gobert's book, no longer can we see the Cartesian subject as a pure mind disconnected from others or the 'emotional cocktails' that constitute experience. His fascinating and original discussion of Descartes's theory of the passions and the mind-body union is a must for scholars of early modern literature and drama, historians of philosophy and of science, and philosophers of mind and neuroscience." -- Patricia Easton * Claremont Graduate University *"This year's winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre goes to a book that the jury unanimously found unique and surprising. It enters the realm of seventeenth-century philosophy and finds there the key to understanding the profound influence it exerted in drama, stagecraft, playhouses, and performances—influences that would shape not only theatre throughout the eighteenth century, but theatre to the present day. Meticulously researched, the book traces the influence of mind-body dualism through literary and material manifestations: in Swedish court ballet, French classical tragedy, and English burlesques, as well as in theatrical architecture, design, and acting practices. This book demonstrates not only solid research but the kind of innovative thinking that moves our field forward. Congratulations to Darren Gobert for The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater." -- Mechele Leon * Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre Committee Chair *"A major contribution to the burgeoning field of theatre and philosophy, The Mind-Body Stage shows that Descartes's meditations on subjectivity changed the way character was conceived, that his study of geometry literally reshaped theatrical space, and that his theory of the passions revolutionized conceptions of the emotional dynamic between spectacle and spectator . . . The Mind-Body Stage breaks new ground. Its theoretical rigour, historical depth, and acute analysis will contribute substantially to new work on the relation between theatre and philosophy. It should be required reading for anyone who cares about theatre, drama, and intellectual history." -- Alan Ackerman * Canadian Theatre Review *"R. Darren Gobert's elegant The Mind-Body Stage represents a significant scholarly and stylistic accomplishment . . . Gobert has made an important contribution to the wider intellectual discourse on the widely variegated terrain currently described as performance philosophy . . . [T]he text is an exemplar of finely tuned, witty, and compelling scholarship that will most certainly have a significant influence in theatre and performance studies, as well as in a variety of related interfields and emergent interdisciplinary constellations of thinking." -- David Fancy * Theatre Research International *"The strength of Darren R. Gobert's The Mind-Body Stage is in the creative and compelling layering of theatrical developments in playwriting, acting, and theatre architecture onto the philosophical writings of Rene Descartes . . . [T]his book [is] a fantastic resource for students of theatre as well as theatre historians." -- Megan Macdonald * Theatreforschung *"...Gobert is at his best, combining his facility with close readings of text and rigorous analyses of material history to shed light upon the 'quarrel' surrounding Moliere's School for Wives . . . [T]he reader feels not exhausted by the author's thoroughness, but impassioned by it." -- Brad Krumholz * Theatre Research in Canada *"[A] scholarly tour-de-force . . . Gobert has done a great service to scholarship in both the history of philosophy and theatre studies and helped Descartes take a further step onto the stage of the world." -- William Egginton * Theatre Journal *"This intriguing study fulfills the promise to trace the hidden role that Cartesianism played in theater history in the seventeenth century—and beyond." -- Erec R. Koch * Modern Philology *"The strength of R. Darren Gobert's book, The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater, is to align itself not with Cartesian dualism but with the theatrical proofs of Descartes's cultural relevance in the creation of the plays, performances, and even the theatrical architecture of his time . . . Gobert successfully illustrates the ways in which Cartesian philosophy has been coterminous with meaningful changes in the theatre of interrelationship, whose borders are constantly in and at play." -- Spencer Golub * Comparative Literature Studies *

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Book SynopsisIdentity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of identity as the answer to the question, who, or what, am I? It covers the century from the end of World War I, when identity in this sense first became an issue for writers and philosophers, to 2010, when European political leaders declared multiculturalism a failure just as Canada, which pioneered it, was hailing its success. Along the way the book examines Erik Erikson's concepts of psychological identity and identity crisis, which made the word famous; the turn to collective identity and the rise of identity politics in Europe and America; varieties and theories of group identity; debates over accommodating collective identities within liberal democracy; the relationship between individual and group identity; the postmodern critique of identity as a concept; and the ways it nonetheless transformed the social sciences and altered our ideas of ethics. At the same time the book is an argument for the validTrade Review"A remarkable work: intellectually challenging and engaging, wide-ranging and deeply thought-through, marked by incisive analysis and luminous insights. This distinguished and important book should be of interest to people in a wide variety of fields-intellectual history (European and American), cultural studies, sociology, psychology, and philosophy." * Jerrold Seigel, author of The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Europe Since the Seventeenth Century *"There are not many people alive today who could produce a book like this one, which calls on a vast range of learning that can only be acquired over a lifetime of reading and scholarly reflection. It is sweeping in its scope and steeped in erudition. Gerald Izenberg is a masterful explicator of difficult authors and texts." * Darrin McMahon, author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The New "Discourse" of Identity Chapter 1. Identity Becomes an Issue: European Literature Between the World Wars Chapter 2. The Ontological Critique of Identity: Heidegger and Sartre Chapter 3. Identity Becomes a Word: Erik Erikson and Psychological Identity Chapter 4. Social Identity and the Birth of Identity Politics, 1945-1970 Chapter 5. Collective Identities and Their Agendas, 1970-2000 Chapter 6. The Practical Politics of National and Multicultural Identity: Germany, France, Canada, and the United States, 1970-2010 Chapter 7. The Problem of Collective Identity in Liberal Democracy Chapter 8. The Contradictions of Postmodern Identity Chapter 9. Identity Transforms the Social Sciences Chapter 10. The Kinds of Kinds: Explaining Collective Identity Chapter 11. Identity as an Ethical Issue Conclusion. The Necessity of Identity Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Thrailkill's] approach to the three siblings under the aspect of play is an inspired one that draws them together like never before. Philosophical Siblings will surely prompt new approaches to all three Jameses, and will excite cognitivists and theorists of play...Perhaps there is an invitation here for scholars of the aesthetic movement to integrate art for art’s sake with play for play’s sake? If they do, one hopes that they will have—and share—as much fun as Thrailkill." * American Literary History *"Written with elegance and clarity, using both intellectual history and sophisticated rhetorical analysis, this useful book shows how Alice, William, and Henry James participated in philosophical, scientific, technological, and literary trends of thought in the American (and sometimes British) 19th century. The concept of play that this book explains is not so much a matter of mood but rather a mode of theorizing experience. The book’s account of the relationships among the writings of the siblings compares them fruitfully." * Choice *"Jane Thrailkill offers a powerfully synthetic new account of the much-studied James family, but she also does much more. Although her account of the Jameses is consummate enough to convince any specialist, her book might fairly be said to take these writers as a jumping-off point for elaborating a dazzling theory of philosophizing as play-and vice versa." * Jennifer Fleissner, Indiana University *

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Book SynopsisIn this unique philosophical anthology 16 authors- including both established feminists and some of today’s most innovative new scholars- engage in sustained reflection on the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and mothering, and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which those experiences are informed.Trade Review"This book produces what is for the most part little-known material, the result of recent research, and also contributes a new understanding of some familiar phenomenological material." -- -Amy Mullin University of Toronto Mississauga "The volume contributors, all female philosophy scholars, remedy [a] gap in the literature by approaching questions about reproductive rights, the status of the fetus, and the medicalization of childbirth." -Choice "Very little philosophical attention-and certainly little positive attention-has been paid to women's experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and mothering. Critically focusing on those experiences, this groundbreaking collection explores how pregnancy and childbirth have been portrayed in the philosophical canon; the variety of forms that mothering and motherhood can take; how feminist phenomenology can illuminate the experiences of pregnancy, birth, and miscarriage; ethical and political questions surrounding pregnancy and childbirth; and how pregnancy and mothering are viewed by mainstream media and popular culture. This book is a must-read for feminists and philosophers of all stripes." -- -Shannon Sullivan Pennsylvania State University "Recent years have shown a renewed scholarly interest in motherhood and pregnancy, and Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood is an important addition to the literature. Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R. Lundquist's anthology is both firmly rooted in philosophical theory and accessible to the non-specialist, a rare combination. In bringing their own experiences as mothers to bear on canonical accounts of personhood and moral theory, contributors to the volume extend the second-wave project of identifying gendered and sexist frameworks underlying seemingly gender-neutral philosophies. New to the literature is Coming to Life's extensive, critical attention to phenomenology, an area of philosophy often seen, incorrectly, as motherhood and pregnancy-friendly. In addition, Dorothy Roger's essay on women who experience pregnancy and/or childbirth, but not motherhood, brings attention to an all too often unrecognized, and certainly under-theorized, phenomenon of women's experience-miscarriage and the giving up of a child for adoption." -- -Maeve O'Donovan Notre Dame of Maryland University "This consistently rigorous and original collection is a joy to read. From the most metaphorical and metaphysical claims about the pregnant subject to the most practical political arguments about the day-to-day of mothering, these essays draw us in with their careful and passionate scholarship. LaChance Adams and Lundquist have provided not only a primer for those trying to understand what is philosophical in pregnancy, birth, and mothering, but show that thinking about these topics should change the way everyone philosophizes. The discipline--and the canon--look different after Coming To Life." -- -Cressida Heyes University of Alberta, EdmontonTable of ContentsContributors: Sarah LaChance Adams, Melissa Burchard, Sonya Charles, Cynthia Coe, Frances Gray, Lisa Guenther, Eva Kittay, Candace Johnson, Caroline R. Lundquist, Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Kelly Oliver, Dorothy Rogers, Rebecca Tuvel, Kayley Varnallis, Florentien Verhage, Gail Weiss, Talia Welsh

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Book SynopsisVoices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful—they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions. Through explorations of theology, pedagogy, translation, and more, this book works toward reintegrating our thinking about words as a fleshy combining of meaning and music.Trade Review"In this eloquently written and elegantly conceived book, Karmen MacKendrick speaks for voice--and speaks up for it--in much-needed new terms. MacKendrick ask us to recognize that voice matters in part because it is matter. The bodily and musical qualities of voice have rarely, if ever, been given their philosophical due. Moving across a wide span of concerns from literature to theology, The Matter of Voice shows why that gap in our thinking should be filled and proceeds to fill it memorably." -- -Lawrence Kramer Fordham University "The Matter of Voice is a work of philosophical theology in a multidisciplinary and poetic key. Its central organizing insight is that voice and voicing are productive of corporeality and rhythm in language. As MacKendrick shows, at the heart of the voice is 'an irreducible and carnal strangeness' that refuses closure and invites passion back into thinking. The book is a sterling exemplar of the richness that results from attending to the somatic quality of words, yielding a layering of ideas that forms a virtual chorus of multiperspectival thinking." -- -Patricia Cox Miller Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Hearing Voices 1. The Matter of Voice 2. Speaking to Learn to Listen 3. Thou Art Translated! 4. The Voice in the Mirror 5. Original Breath 6. The Meaning in the Music Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisEgo Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes’s philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes’s ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum.Trade Review"In this masterful study which lays out the groundwork for his later corpus, Jean-Luc Nancy examines the emergence of subjectivity as a philosophical event whose advent is decisively shaped by its discursive articulation. Taking to task the attempt to utter through one's mouth rather than merely think the givens of one's existence, he deftly captures the struggle of modern thought to re-envision its modes of being in the margins of philosophy and literature."--Dalia Judovitz, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsEgo Sum (Opening) Dum Scribo Larvatus pro Deo Mundus est fabula Unum quid

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Book SynopsisComing by Jean-Luc Nancy is a lyrical examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of ownership to the pleasure of orgasm? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, the Marquis de Sade, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to mysticism.Trade Review"A stimulating analysis, Nancy's Coming shows sex and sexuality to be crucial understanding central aspects of his work. Moving from the prurient to the profound, Coming is a scintillating read for anyone interested in the limits of desire, the loneliness that pervades much of contemporary culture, or what love means today." -- -Peter Gratton Memorial University of NewfoundlandTable of ContentsPreface to the English Language Edition Why Speak of Coming [Jouissance]? Coming Preliminaries Are We Alone in Jouissance? From Animal Instinct to Desire of the Other: How to Go from Plaisir to Jouir? Toward Infinity and Beyond: Is There an Art to Jouir? The Condemnation of Jouissance From Profit to Consumption/Consummation: Can We Enjoy Everything? Some Bibliographical Reference Points Body of Pleasure Ruhren, Beruhren, Aufruhr (Moving, Touching, Uprising) Neither Seeing Nor Having [Ni le voir ni l'avoir] Nude Enumerated Bibliography

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Book SynopsisComing by Jean-Luc Nancy is a lyrical examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of ownership to the pleasure of orgasm? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, the Marquis de Sade, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to mysticism.Trade Review"A stimulating analysis, Nancy's Coming shows sex and sexuality to be crucial understanding central aspects of his work. Moving from the prurient to the profound, Coming is a scintillating read for anyone interested in the limits of desire, the loneliness that pervades much of contemporary culture, or what love means today." -- -Peter Gratton Memorial University of NewfoundlandTable of ContentsPreface to the English Language Edition Why Speak of Coming [Jouissance]? Coming Preliminaries Are We Alone in Jouissance? From Animal Instinct to Desire of the Other: How to Go from Plaisir to Jouir? Toward Infinity and Beyond: Is There an Art to Jouir? The Condemnation of Jouissance From Profit to Consumption/Consummation: Can We Enjoy Everything? Some Bibliographical Reference Points Body of Pleasure Ruhren, Beruhren, Aufruhr (Moving, Touching, Uprising) Neither Seeing Nor Having [Ni le voir ni l'avoir] Nude Enumerated Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1. Gregory of Nazianzus: Animality and Ascent 2. Gregory of Nyssa: Reading Animality and Desire 3. The Problem of Human Animality in Contemporary Theological Anthropology Part II 4. Animality and Identity: Human Nature and the Image of God 5. Animality in Human Sin and Redemption 6. Animality in Eschatological Transformation Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Crossing the Species Divide 1 The Animal God • Animism • Feral Religion • God of Beak and Feathers 1. Song of the Wood Thrush 20 The Singing Monk of the Crum Woods • Nature Religion • The Pigeon God • Sacred Animals • Christian Animism • Divine Subscendence • Avian Spirit Possession • Return to the Crum Woods 2. The Delaware River Basin 50 Toxic Tour • Heidegger’s Root Metaphors • Calling Spirit from the Deep • Sacrament of Dirt and Spit • Girard’s Fear of Monstrous Couplings • Green Mimesis • The Pileated Woodpecker 3. Worshipping the Green God 81 Crum Creek Visitation • Christian History • Jesus and Sacred Land • Augustine and Natalist Wonder • Hildegard’s Viriditas Pneumatology • Rewilding Christian Worship 4. “Come Suck Sequoia and Be Saved” 113 John Muir’s Christianimism • Indian Removal in Yosemite • The Great Code • The Water Ouzel • The Two Books • Sequoia Religion • “Christianity and Mountainanity Are Streams from the Same Fountain” 5. On the Wings of a Dove 141 Sagebrush Requiem • Is Earth a Living Being? • Suffering Earth • Refreshment and Fragrance in the Hills • A Tramp for God • The Death of God • God on the Wing Acknowledgments 173 Notes 177 Index 205

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword from the Helmuth Plessner Society | vii Translator’s Preface and Acknowledgments | ix Preface to the First Edition (1928) | xv Preface to the Second Edition (1965) | xix Introduction | xxxvii J. M. Bernstein 1. Aim and Scope of the Study | 1 The Development of Intuitionist Lebensphilosophie in Opposition to Experience, 3 • Lebensphilosophie and the Theory of the Humanities, 11 • Working Plan for the Foundation of a Philosophy of the Human, 22 2. The Cartesian Objection and the Nature of the Problem | 34 Extension vs. Interiority and the Problem of Appearance, 34 • Appearance as Originating in Interiority, 38 • The Prior Givenness of Interiority and the Forward Displacement of Myself: The Proposition of Immanence 41 • Extension as Outer World; Interiority as Inner World, 46 • The Proposition of Representation and the Element of Sensation, 51 • The Inaccessibility of Other I’s according to the Principle of Sensualism, 55 • The Need for a Revision of the Cartesian Dichotomy in the Interest of a Science of Life, 58 • A Methodological Reformulation of the Opening Question, 64 3. The Thesis | 75 The Question, 75 • The Dual Aspect in the Appearance of Ordinary Perceptual Things, 76 • Against the Misinterpretation of This Analysis: A Closer Focus on the Subject Matter, 81 • The Dual Aspect of Living Perceptual Things: Köhler contra Driesch, 84 • How Is Dual Aspectivity Possible? The Nature of the Boundary, 93 • The Task of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 99 • Definitions of Life, 104 • Nature and Object of a Theory of the Essential Characteristics of the Organic, 110 4. The Modes of Being of Vitality | 115 Essential Characteristics Indicating Vitality, 115 • The Positionality of Living Being and Its Spacelikeness, 118 • Living Being as Process and Type; the Dynamic Character of the Living Form; the Individuality of the Living Thing, 123 • Living Process as Development, 129 • The Curve of Development: Aging and Death, 137 • The Individual Living Thing as a System, 144 • The Self-Regulation of the Individual Living Thing and the Harmonious Equipotentiality of Its Parts, 149 • Individual Living Things as Organized: The Dual Meaning of Organs, 154 • The Temporality of Living Being, 159 • The Positional Union of Space and Time and the Natural Place, 168 5. The Organizational Modes of Living Being: Plants and Animals | 172 The Circle of Life, 172 • Assimilation—Dissimilation, 182 • Adaptedness and Adaptation, 186 • Reproduction, Heredity, Selection, 196 • The Open Form of Organization of the Plant, 202 • The Closed Form of Organization of the Animal, 209 6. The Sphere of the Animal | 219 The Positionality of the Closed Form: Centrality and Frontality, 219 • The Coordination of Stimulus and Response in the Case of an Inoperative Subject (Decentralized Type of Organization), 227 • The Coordination of Stimulus and Response by a Subject (Centralized Type of Organization), 231 • The Animal’s Surrounding Field Organized into Complex Qualities and Things, 242 • Intelligence, 252 • Memory, 257 • Memory as the Unity of Residue and Anticipation, 262 7. The Sphere of the Human | 267 The Positionality of the Excentric Form: “I” and Personhood, 267 • Outer World, Inner World, Shared World, 272 • The Fundamental Laws of Anthropology: The Law of Natural Artificiality, 287 • The Law of Mediated Immediacy: Immanence and Expressivity, 298 • The Law of the Utopian Standpoint: Nullity and Transcendence, 316 Appendix | 323 Glossary | 337 Notes | 345 Index | 359

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Book SynopsisThis book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ix To Risk One’s Life | 1 Eurydice Saved | 4 Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8 Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11 In Suspense | 13 At the Risk of Passion | 17 Leaving the Family | 22 Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24 Incurable (In)fidelities | 29 Zero Risk? | 33 How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36 Being in Secret | 39 Befriending Our Fears | 41 At the Risk of Being Sad | 46 At the Risk of Being Free | 49 The Time They Call Lost | 52 Dead Alive | 55 Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59 Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? | 63 Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67 Life—Mine, Yours | 70 At the Risk of the Unknown | 72 At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74 May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79 Breaking Up | 82 At the Risk of Speech | 86 Solitudes | 89 Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse | 93 Hope No More | 101 Once Upon a Time, the “Athenaeum” . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106 Risking Belief | 111 Risking Variation | 114 The Event: Hyperpresence | 119 Intimate Prophecy | 122 At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127 Desire, Body, Writing | 130 Healing? | 139 An Other Language | 142 Risking Scandal | 145 Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148 Assiduity | 151 Risking the Future | 154 At the Risk of Beauty | 158 At the Risk of Spirit | 162 Risking the Universal? | 164 Hauntings | 167 Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170 Envisaging Night | 173 Revolutions | 176 At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180 Notes | 187

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Book SynopsisRadical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought.Table of ContentsPreface | vii 1. Radical Botany: An Introduction | 1 2. Libertine Botany and Vegetal Modernity | 28 3. Plant Societies and Enlightened Vegetality | 56 4. The Inorganic Plant in the Romantic Garden | 86 5. The End of the World by Other Means | 114 6. Plant Horror: Love Your Own Pod | 144 7. Becoming Plant Nonetheless | 171 Acknowledgments | 203 Notes | 205 Works Cited | 253 Index | 269

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Book SynopsisMaterial Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Materialism, Old Wisdom | 1 1 Complex Truth: Myth, Facts, and Matter | 15 2 Adam’s Skin: The Strangely Bounded Primal Person | 38 3 Limitless Bounding: The Valentinian Body of Christ | 59 4 Glorious Return: Resurrected Bodies | 92 Afterword | 125 Acknowledgments | 133 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 181 Index | 199

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Book SynopsisMaterial Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Materialism, Old Wisdom | 1 1 Complex Truth: Myth, Facts, and Matter | 15 2 Adam’s Skin: The Strangely Bounded Primal Person | 38 3 Limitless Bounding: The Valentinian Body of Christ | 59 4 Glorious Return: Resurrected Bodies | 92 Afterword | 125 Acknowledgments | 133 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 181 Index | 199

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Book SynopsisFocusing on conceptual origins, this book shows that there is a bond between hominid thinking and hominid evolution, a bond cemented by the living body. This thesis is illustrated in eight paleoanthropological case studies ranging from tool-using/tool-making to counting, sexuality, representation, language, death, and cave art.Trade Review"A significant contribution to the study of early humans, this book is a philosophical anthropology.... it makes genuinely novel, and highly persuasive, claims within the field itself."—David Depew"Ranging across the humanities and sciences, this thoroughly original book challenges both traditional metaphysics and contemporary cultural relativism. In their place, it persuasively develops a phenomenonological, tactile-kinesthetic account of the origins of thinking. This philosophical anthropology could not be more timely. It replaces the 'linguistic turn' with a promising new 'corporeal turn.'"—John J. Stuhr, University of Oregon"This work takes a much-needed stand in the inter-disciplinary field of philosophical anthropology. Sheets-Johnstone is well-read in the history of philosophy and in contemporary anthropology. The point of view she offers is inventive, insightful, well-established, and fruitful."—Thomas M. Alexander, Southern Illinois University at CarbondaleTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I: Overview 1. The Thesis, the Method, and Related Matters Part II: Paleoanthropological Case Studies 2. The Hermeneutics of Tool-Making: Corporeal and Topological Concepts 3. On the Origin of Counting: A Re-Thinking of Upright Posture 4. Hominid Bipedality and Primate Sexuality: A Further Re-Thinking of Upright Posture 5. Corporeal Representation 6. On the Origin of Language 7. Hominid Bipedality and Sexual Selection Theory 8. On the Conceptual Origin of Death 9. On the Origin and Significance of Paleolithic Cave Art Part III: Theoretical and Methodological Issues 10. The Thesis and Its Opposition: Cultural Relativism 11. The Thesis and Its Opposition: Institutionalized Metaphysical Dualism 12. The Case for a Philosophical Anthropology 13. Methodology: The Hermeneutical Strand 14. Methodology: The Genetic Phenomenology Strand 15. The Case for Tactile-Kinesthetic Invariants Name Index

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Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein's thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote addition to the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series. Full of penetrating insights into the life and work of the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, the collection explores the full range of Wittgenstein's contribution to philosophy. It includes essays on his intellectual development, his work in logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, and much else. As well as examining Wittgenstein's contribution to human understanding in detail, the Companion features vital contextual analysis that traces the relationship between his ideas and those of other philosophers and schools of thought, including the Aristotelian and continental philosophical traditions. Authors also address prominent theTable of ContentsList of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Wittgenstein’s Published Works in Order of Composition xiv Introduction 1 John Hyman and Hans-Johann Glock Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Sketch of His Life 5 Ray Monk Part I Introductory 21 1. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Development 23 Wolfgang Kienzler 2. Wittgenstein’s Texts and Style 41 David G. Stern Part II Influences 57 3. Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer 59 Dale Jacquette 4. Wittgenstein and Frege 74 Michael Beaney 5. Wittgenstein and Russell 92 Graham Stevens 6. Wittgenstein, Hertz, and Boltzmann 110 John M. Preston Part III Early Philosophy 125 7. Logical Atomism 127 Leo K.C. Cheung 8. The Picture Theory 141 Colin Johnston 9. Wittgenstein on Solipsism 159 Ernst Michael Lange 10. Resolute Readings of the Tractatus 175 James Conant and Silver Bronzo 11. Ineffability and Nonsense in the Tractatus 195 Leo K.C. Cheung 12. Metaphysics: From Ineffability to Normativity 209 P.M.S. Hacker Part IV Philosophy and Grammar 229 13. Philosophy and Philosophical Method 231 Hans-Johann Glock 14. Grammar and Grammatical Statements 252 Severin Schroeder 15. The Autonomy of Grammar 269 Michael N. Forster 16. Surveyability 278 Joachim Schulte Part V Logic and Mathematics 291 17. Logic and the Tractatus 293 Roger M. White 18. Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Mathematics 305 Pasquale Frascolla 19. Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy of Mathematics 319 A.W. Moore 20. Wittgenstein and Antirealism 332 Mathieu Marion 21. Necessity and Apriority 346 Eric Loomis Part VI Language 359 22. Names and Ostensive Definitions 361 Kai Büttner 23. Meaning and Understanding 375 Jason Bridges 24. Rules and Rule-Following 390 Gary Ebbs 25. Vagueness and Family Resemblance 407 Hanoch Ben-Yami 26. Languages, Language-Games, and Forms of Life 420 Daniel Whiting 27. Wittgenstein on Truth 433 David Dolby Part VII Mind and Action 443 28. Privacy and Private Language 445 Edward Kanterian 29. The Inner and the Outer 465 William Child 30. Wittgenstein on “I” and the Self 478 Maximilian de Gaynesford 31. Wittgenstein on Action and the Will 491 Maria Alvarez 32. Wittgenstein on Intentionality 502 Stefan Brandt 33. Wittgenstein on Seeing Aspects 517 Arif Ahmed 34. Wittgenstein on Color 533 Jonathan Westphal Part VIII Epistemology 545 35. Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Certainty 547 Danièle Moyal-Sharrock 36. Wittgenstein on Skepticism 563 Duncan Pritchard 37. Wittgenstein on Causation and Induction 576 Constantine Sandis and Chon Tejedor 38. Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Science 587 Vasso Kindi Part IX Ethics, Aesthetics, and Religion 603 39. Wittgenstein and Ethics 605 Robert L. Arrington 40. Wittgenstein and Aesthetics 612 Severin Schroeder 41. Wittgenstein and Anthropology 627 Brian R. Clack 42. Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion 639 John Cottingham 43. Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis 651 Edward Harcourt Part X Philosophical Schools and Traditions 667 44. Wittgenstein and the Aristotelian Tradition 669 Roger Pouivet 45. Wittgenstein and Kantianism 682 Robert Hanna 46. Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle 699 Thomas Uebel 47. Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy 718 Anita Avramides 48. Wittgenstein and Pragmatism 731 David Bakhurst and Cheryl Misak 49. Wittgenstein and Naturalism 746 Christopher Hookway 50. Wittgenstein and Continental Philosophy 757 Stephen Mulhall Index 771

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Book Synopsis The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops a connective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality, mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation, perception, memory, thought, and imagination, by one of Britain's leading philosophers. It is an essential guide and handbook for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists. The culmination of 45 years of reflection on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the nature of the human person No other book in epistemology or philosophy of psychology provides such extensive overviews of consciousness, self-consciousness, intentionality, mastery of a language, knowledge, belief, memory, sensation and perception, thought and imagination Illustrated with tables, tree-diagrams, and charts to provide overviews of the conceptual relationships disclosed by analysis Written bTrade Review“Peter Hacker is the most subtle and penetrating philosopher of the age. In recent years he has demolished the pretentions of cognitive neuroscience and caused outrage among fellow philosophers by showing that many of their claims are meaningless. The Intellectual Powers, his most recent book, is another masterpiece, examining the cognitive capacities of the human species. If, as the Ancient Greeks believed, philosophy is the most important subject, Hacker is one of our most seminal thinkers.” (Matthew Syed, The Times, 7 December 2013) “An essential guide and handbook for all who are working in philosophy of mind, epistemology, psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience.” (Expofairs.com, 21 November 2013) Table of ContentsPreface xi Introduction: The Project 1 Prolegomena 9 Chapter 1 Consciousness as the Mark of the Mental 11 1. Consciousness as a mark of modernity 11 2. The genealogy of the concept of consciousness 15 3. The analytic of consciousness 19 4. The early modern philosophical conception of consciousness 33 5. The dialectic of consciousness I 40 6. The contemporary philosophical conception of consciousness 48 7. The dialectic of consciousness II 51 8. The illusions of self-consciousness 57 Chapter 2 Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental 60 1. Intentionality 60 2. Intentional ‘objects’ 66 3. The central sun: the relation of thought to reality 69 4. The first circle: what do we believe (hope, suspect, etc.)? 82 5. The second circle: the relation of language to reality 87 6. The third circle: the relation of thought to language 91 7. The fourth circle: the epistemology of intentionality 93 8. The fifth circle: meaning and understanding 96 Chapter 3 Mastery of a Language as the Mark of a Mind 101 1. A language-using animal 101 2. Linguistic communication 103 3. Knowing a language 106 4. Meaning something 111 5. Understanding and interpreting 117 6. Meaning and use 121 7. The dialectic of understanding: the ‘mystery’ of understanding new sentences 136 Part I The Cognitive and Doxastic Powers 145 Chapter 4 Knowledge 147 1. The value of knowledge 147 2. The grammatical groundwork 149 3. The semantic fi eld 154 4. What knowledge is not 162 5. Certainty 170 6. Analyses of knowledge 175 7. Knowledge and ability 180 8. Knowing-how 186 9. What is knowledge? The role of ‘know’ in human discourse 191 Chapter 5 Belief 196 1. The web of belief 196 2. The grammatical groundwork 201 3. The surrounding landscape 207 4. Voluntariness and responsibility for belief 212 5. Belief and feelings 218 6. Belief and dispositions 221 7. Belief and mental states 227 8. Why believing something cannot be a brain state 230 9. What is belief? The role of ‘believe’ in human discourse 232 Chapter 6 Knowledge, Belief and the Epistemology of Belief 238 1. Knowledge and belief 238 2. The epistemology of belief 245 3. Non-standard cases: self-deception and unconscious beliefs 251 Chapter 7 Sensation and Perception 257 1. The cognitive powers of the senses 257 2. Sensation 262 3. Perception and sensation 273 4. Sensation, feeling and tactile perception 278 Chapter 8 Perception 286 1. Perceptual organs, the senses and proper sensibles 286 2. Perceptual powers: cognition and volition 294 3. The classical causal theory of perception 301 4. The modern causal theory of perception 307 Chapter 9 Memory 316 1. Memory as a form of knowledge 316 2. The objects of memory 320 3. The faculty and its actualities 321 4. Forms of memory 328 5. Further conceptual links and contrasts 333 6. The dialectic of memory I: the Aristotelian legacy 338 7. The dialectic of memory II: trace theory 345 Part II The Cogitative Powers 353 Chapter 10 Thought and Thinking 355 1. Floundering without an overview 355 2. The varieties of thinking 361 3. Is thinking an activity? 369 4. What do we think in? 375 5. Thought, language and the language of thought 387 6. Can animals think? 393 7. The agent, organ and location of thinking 397 8. Thinking and the ‘inner life’ 401 Chapter 11 Imagination 405 1. A cogitative faculty 405 2. The conceptual network of the imagination 409 3. Perceiving and imagining 417 4. Perceptions and ‘imaginations’: clarity and vivacity of mental imagery 422 5. Mental images and imagining 426 6. Imagination and the will 429 7. The imaginable, the conceivable and the possible 431 Appendix: Philosophical Analysis and the Way of Words 436 1. On method 436 2. Methodological objections and misunderstandings 452 Index 464

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Book SynopsisThe Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the wide range of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporary field of theoretical and philosophical psychology. The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the wide range of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporary field of theoretical and philosophical psychology. Gathers together for the first time all the approaches and methods that define scholarly practice in theoretical and philosophical psychology Chapters explore various philosophical and conceptual approaches, historical approaches, narrative approaches to the nature of human conduct, mixed-method studies of psychology and psychological inquiry, and various theoretical bases of contemporary psychotherapeutic practices Features contributions from ten Past Presidents of the Trade Review"This handbook not only proves that theorizing is still thriving in psychology, it also demonstrates the importance and the necessity of this work.............scholars in psychology will find in these pages things to inspire better thinking and improved inquiries into what it means to be human." (Choice Connect 2016)Table of ContentsAbout the Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv 1 Editors’ Introduction 1 Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Kathleen L. Slaney Part I Philosophical/Conceptual Approaches 21 2 Philosophical Anthropology 23 Matthew LaVine and Michael A. Tissaw 3 Conceptual Analysis 39 Timothy P. Racine 4 Philosophical Hermeneutics 53 Frank C. Richardson 5 An Aristotelian Analysis of the Structure of Human Action 70 Blaine J. Fowers 6 Phenomenology: Methods, Historical Development, and Applications in Psychology 85 Frederick J. Wertz 7 Theory for and as Social Practice of Realizing the Future: Implications from a Transformative Activist Stance 102 Anna Stetsenko 8 Rhetoric and Psychology: Ending the Dominance of Nouns 117 Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho Part II Historical Approaches 133 9 Historical Thinking as a Tool for Theoretical Psychology: On Objectivity 135 Thomas Teo 10 The History of Psychological Objects 151 Adrian Charles Brock 11 Historical Ontology 166 Jeff Sugarman 12 Historiometry 183 Dean Keith Simonton 13 Statistical Thinking in Psychological Research: In Quest of Clarity through Historical Inquiry and Conceptual Analysis 200 James T. Lamiell Part III Narrative and Social Psychological Approaches 217 14 Narrative Psychology and Life Stories 219 Ruthellen Josselson and Brent Hopkins 15 Narrative Hermeneutics 234 Mark Freeman 16 Life Positioning Analysis 248 Jack Martin 17 Positioning Theory 263 Rom Harré 18 The Personal Position Repertoire (PPR) Method as Based on Dialogical Self Theory 277 Hubert J.M. Hermans 19 Subjectivity as Socioculturally Constituted Experience 293 Suzanne R. Kirschner 20 A Transdisciplinary Psychosocial Approach 308 Paul Stenner Part IV Theoretical Studies of Scientific, Professional, and Life Practices 325 21 Allies in Interdisciplinary Spaces: Theoretical Psychology and Science Studies 327 Kareen Ror Malone and Lisa M. Osbeck 22 “I’m Not That Kind of Psychologist”: A Case for Methodological Pragmatism in Theoretical Inquiries into Psychological Science Practices 343 Kathleen L. Slaney 23 The Value of Experiments in Psychology 359 Jan Smedslund 24 Feminism and Theoretical Psychology 374 Alexandra Rutherford, Kate Sheese, and Nora Ruck 25 Surprisability and Practical Rationality: Knowledge Advancement through the Explication of Interpretation 392 Brent D. Slife, Clayton T. Johnson, and Amy C. Jennings 26 Empirical Philosophy: Using Your Everyday Life in Theoretical Psychology 409 Svend Brinkmann 27 Theoretical Bases of Psychotherapeutic Practices 424 John Chambers Christopher, Samuel C. Gable, and David M. Goodman 28 Contemporary Psychoanalysis: The Post-Cartesian Turn in Theory and Practice 441 Roger Frie Index 458

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Book SynopsisAll in the Mind: Psychology for the Curious, Third Edition covers important, topical, and sometimes controversial subjects in the field of Psychology in an engaging alternative or supplement to traditional student textbooks. The third edition of a successful and uniquely readable textbook includes more than two thirds brand new material, with all retained material thoroughly revised and updated. All in the Mind, 3rd Edition offers a new and engaging way to consider key theories and approaches in psychology; providing an original alternative or supplement to traditional teaching textbooks.Table of ContentsChapter Descriptions vi Preface to the Third Edition viii Acknowledgments ix Some Quirky Quotes About Psychology x 1. Introduction: Public Beliefs About Psychology 1 2. "Untangling" Myths and Psychological Realities 15 3. The Names and Dates That Shaped Psychology's History and Development 46 4. Science, Pseudo]Science, and Conspiracy Theories 66 5. The Man Called Freud 96 6. A Guide Into Abnormal Psychology 120 7. Psychology and Work 140 8. Do Looks Matter? 165 9. Judging and Nudging 190 10. A Psychologist in the Marketplace 211 References 235 Further Reading 243 Index 259

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