Philosophy of mind Books
Oxford University Press The Value Gap
Book SynopsisToni Rønnow-Rasmussen explores the distinction between what is finally good and what is finally good-for: he argues that these two value notions are equally important in ethics and practical deliberation. His analysis challenges the widespread idea that there are no genuine practical and moral dilemmas.Trade ReviewThis volume provides an engaging discussion of the distinction between relational and nonrelational goods, that is, being good for a subject rather than being good simpliciter. * W. Simkulet, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPart I: Elements 1: Value Taxonomy 2: Good and Good-For 3: Challenging Value Monism 4: Challenging Good Monism 5: Good-For Unitarianism Part II: A Fitting-Attitude Analysis of Value 6: Fitting-Attitude Analysis 7: The Logical Consequence of Fitting Attitudes 8: The Fitting-Attitude Analysis Revised 9: 'Sake' 10: FA and Motivating Reasons 11: Favourings for No Reason 12: Mind the Value Gap
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Oxford University Press Lifes Values Pleasure Happiness WellBeing and
Book SynopsisIn Life''s Values Alan H. Goldman seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. The proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning, and well-being. Only the latter is the all-inclusive category of personal value, and it consists in the satisfaction of deep rational desires. Since individuals'' rational desires differ, the book cannot dictate what will maximize your own well-being and what in particular you ought to pursue. However it can tell you to make your desires rational (that is, informed and coherent) and it can also explain the nature of these states that typically enter into well-being: pleasure, happiness, and meaning being typically partial causes as well as effects of well-being. All are by-products of satisfying rational desires and rarely successfully aimed at directly. Pleasure comes in sensory, intentional, and pure feeling forms, each with an opposite in pain or distress. Happiness in its primary sense is an emotion, not a constant state as some philosophers assume, and in secondary senses a mood (disposition to have an emotion) or temperament (disposition to be in a mood). Meaning in life is a matter of events in one''s life fitting into intelligible narratives. Events in narratives are understood teleologically as well as causally, in terms of outcomes aimed at as well antecedent events. So, in the briefest terms, this book distinguishes and relates pleasure, happiness, well-being, and meaning, and relates each to motivation and value.Trade Reviewa wonderful book ... This book is a valuable handbook for any lay person who wants to find a meaning in his/her life, and has not found the clue for how to pursue it elsewhere. It is also a useful tool for students and scholars especially in philosophy and psychology. I believe it will be a very useful tool for classroom discussions from any introductory course in psychology and philosophy to ethics, metaphysics, psychological, and philosophical counseling. * Kamuran Elbeyoglu, Metapsychology Online Reviews *Alan Goldman's book is an important contribution to the philosophical literature on the topics listed in the subtitle. It is carefully written and argumentatively rich, and I highly recommend it. * Steward Goetz, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Pleasure 2: Happiness 3: Well-Being 4: The Meaning of Life 5: Conclusions Appendix: Desire
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Oxford University Press Phronesis
Book SynopsisPhronesis, or practical wisdom, has interested philosophers (and more recently psychologists) for millennia. In the last decade or so, a bandwagon of diverse academics has been working with and celebrating the notion of phronesis as a metacognitive capacity, guiding morally aspirational cognition and action.In Phronesis: Retrieving Practical Wisdom in Psychology, Philosophy, and Education, Kristján Kristjánsson and Blaine J. Fowers work through some of the relevant puzzles created by the recent phronesis discourse, filling gaps in the current literatures, and pushing the research agenda in new directions. The book does so in a way that is radically interdisciplinary and draws in equal measure on insights from psychology, philosophy, and education. Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, the book makes a contribution to vital ongoing debates within moral psychology, moral philosophy, professional ethics, and moral education about the salience of phronesis - addressing the topic
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Oxford University Press The Importance of Being Rational
Book SynopsisThe Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel reasons-based account of rationality. The book''s central thesis is that what it is for one to be rational is to correctly respond to the normative reasons one possesses. Errol Lord defends novel views about what it is to possess reasons and what it is to correctly respond to reasons. He shows that these views not only help to support the book''s main thesis, they also help to resolve several important problems that are independent of rationality. The account of possession provides novel contributions to debates about what determines what we ought to do, and the account of correctly responding to reasons provides novel contributions to debates about causal theories of reacting for reasons.After defending views about possession and correctly responding, Lord shows that the account of rationality can solve two difficult problems about rationality. The first is the New Evil Demon problem. The book argues that the account has the resources to show that internal duplicates necessarily have the same rational status. The second problem concerns the deontic significance of rationality. Recently it has been doubted whether we ought to be rational. The ultimate conclusion of the book is that the requirements of rationality are the requirements that we ultimately ought to comply with. If this is right, then rationality is of fundamental importance to our deliberative lives.Trade ReviewErrol Lord's The Importance of Being Rational is a tour de force treatment of the relationship between reasons, rationality, knowledge, and what Lord calls creditworthiness, the kind of achievement where you don't just do what is right, but do it for the right reasons. * Mark Schroeder, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research *a beautiful presentation of how one might defend a reasons-first approach to rationality. And it has many insights that will be useful to non-reasons-firsters as well. As such, there's a great deal in the details of Lord's arguments that repays careful consideration. * Karl Schafer, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research *The Importance of Being Rational marks a new moment in debates about the nature of rationality. It is absolutely compulsory reading for epistemologists, ethicists, and meta-ethicists alike. * Nathan Robert Howard, Ethics *rich, ambitious, and thought-provoking * Olle Risberg, European Journal of Philosophy *an essential reading in the literature on reasons. * Julia Staffel, The Philosophical Review *an admirable philosophical feat that rewards careful study. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the nature, and worth, of rationality. * Carlos Núñez, The Philosophical Quarterly *an informed, original, rich, sophisticated and exceptionally well-illustrated case for the claim that what we are rationally required to do and what we substantially ought to do is really the same thing. To follow Errol Lord on his route to this conclusion is a frequently rewarding experience and one that is well worth undertaking. * Hallvard Lillehammer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPart I: Initial Motivations 1: Introduction 2: The Coherent and the Rational Part II: Possessing Reasons 3: Possession: The Epistemic Condition 4: Possession: The Practical Condition Part III: Correctly Responding to Reasons 5: Correctly Responding to Reasons 6: Achievements and Intelligibility Part IV: Two Problems Solved 7: Defeating the Externalist's Demons 8: What you're Rationally Required to Do and What you Ought to Do
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Oxford University Press Shifty Speech and Independent Thought Epistemic
Book SynopsisShifty Speech and Independent Thought is a manifesto for epistemic independence: the independence of good thinking from practical considerations. Mona Simion defends the independence of thought from the most prominent threat that has surfaced in the last twenty years of epistemological theorizing: the phenomenon of shiftiness of proper assertoric speech with practical context.This study does four things: firstly, it shows that, against orthodoxy, the argument from practical shiftiness of proper assertoric speech against the independence of proper thought from the practical does not go through, for it rests on normative ambiguation. Secondly, it defends a proper functionalist knowledge account of the epistemic normativity of assertion, in conjunction with classical invariantism about knowledge attributions. Thirdly, it develops the first integrated account of the normativity of constative speech. Lastly, it defends detailed normative accounts for conjecturing, telling, and moral assertion.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Thought/Speech Shiftiness Dilemma 1: The Context Shiftiness Dilemma Generalized 2: Epistemic WAMs 3: Pragmatic WAMs 4: KK Compatibilism Part 2: Thought Invariantism and Speech Functionalism 5: Against the Shiftiness Dilemma 6: Assertion Functionalism and Context 7: Knowledge Norms for Constative Speech Acts Part 3: Constatives in Context 8: The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture 9: No Special Treatment for the Epistemic Normativity of Telling 10: A Special Case: Moral Assertion Conclusion References
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Oxford University Press Attachment and Character Attachment Theory Ethics
Book SynopsisThere are many exciting points of contact between developmental psychology in the attachment paradigm and the kinds of questions first raised by Aristotle''s ethics, and which continue to preoccupy moral philosophers today. The book brings experts from both fields together to explore them for the first time, to demonstrate why philosophers working in moral psychology, or in ''virtue ethics'' - better, the triangle of relationships between the concepts of human nature, human excellence, and the best life for human beings - should take attachment theory more seriously than they have done to date.Attachment theory is a theory of psychological development. And the characteristics attachment theory is a developmental theory of - the various subvarieties of attachment - are evaluatively inflected: to be securely attached to a parent is to have a kind of attachment that makes for a good intimate relationship. But obviously the classification of human character in terms of the virtues is evaluatively inflected too. So it would be strange if there were no story to be told about how these two sets of evaluatively inflected descriptions relate to one another. Attachment and Character explores the relationship between attachment and prosocial behaviour; probes the concept of the prosocial itself, and the relationship between prosocial behaviour, virtue and the quality of the social environment; the question whether there even are such things as stable character traits; and whether attachment theory, in locating the origins of virtue in secure attachment, and attachment dispositions in human evolutionary history, gives support to ethical naturalism, in any of the many meanings of that expression.Trade Reviewrecommended * S. A. Mason, CHOICE *Table of ContentsEdward Harcourt: Introduction 1: Ross A. Thompson: Attachment Theory and Moral Development 2: Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg & Marinus H. van IJzendoorn: Dimensions, Determinants and Development of Prosocial Behaviour: A Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis on Attachment and Moral Character 3: Jonathan Hill: Attachment, the Virtues and the Vices: Some Developmental and Conceptual Considerations 4: Darcia Narvaez: The Evolved Nest, Virtue and Vice 5: Keith S. Cox & Micah Lott: The Virtues of Attachment 6: Jay Belsky: Beyond Virtue: The Development Of Reproductive Strategies 7: Edward Harcourt: Two Routes from Secure Attachment to Virtue 8: Terence Irwin: Education for Virtue: Aquinas on Passions and Attention 9: Katrien Schaubroeck: Attachment, Virtue and the Second Person 10: Alison E. Denham: An Aetiology of Recognition: Empathy, Attachment and Moral Competence 11: Monique Wonderly: Attachment, Addiction, and Vices of Valuing
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Oxford University Press Inc Conversations on Consciousness What the Best
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Oxford University Press Inc The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Historical and Clinical Context John R. Peteet Part I: Virtues of Self-control Chapter 1: Accountability Charlotte Witvliet and John R. Peteet Chapter 2: Humility Nicholas D. Covaleski Chapter 3: Equanimity Michael R. Tom and David R. Vago Part II: Virtues of Benevolence Chapter 4: Forgiveness Everett L. Worthington and John R. Peteet Chapter 5: Compassion Paul Gilbert Chapter 6: Love John R. Peteet Part III: Virtues of Positivity Chapter 7: Defiance Nancy Nyquist Potter Chapter 8: Phronesis (Practical Wisdom) Jerome Kroll and Perry C. Mason Chapter 9: Gratitude Lilian Jans-Beken Chapter 10: Self-Transcendence C. Robert Cloninger and Kevin M. Cloninger Chapter 11: Hope (Optimism, Resilience) Warren Kinghorn Future Directions Chapter 12: The Science of Human Flourishing Tyler J. VanderWeele
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Oxford University Press Inc MindSociety From Brains to Social Sciences and
Book SynopsisHow do minds make societies, and how do societies change? Paul Thagard systematically connects neural and psychological explanations of mind with major social sciences (social psychology, sociology, politics, economics, anthropology, and history) and professions (medicine, law, education, engineering, and business). Social change emerges from interacting social and mental mechanisms.Many economists and political scientists assume that individuals make rational choices, despite the abundance of evidence that people frequently succumb to thinking errors such as motivated inference. Much of sociology and anthropology is taken over with postmodernist assumptions that everything is constructed on the basis of social relations such as power, with no inkling that these relations are mediated by how people think about each other.Mind-Society displays the interdependence of the cognitive and social sciences by describing the interconnections among mental and social mechanisms, which interact to generate social changes ranging from marriage patterns to wars. Validation comes from detailed studies of important social changes, from norms about romantic relationships to economic practices, political institutions, religious customs, and international relations.This book belongs to a trio that includes Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. They can be read independently, but together they make up a Treatise on Mind and Society that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.Trade ReviewProvides a unified, mechanistic theory for the "Disciplines" and "Professions" that make up the social sciencesâ Interdisciplinary scholars in philosophy or the social sciences will find this book challenging but ultimately worthwhile * Choice *In this book, Thagard offers a tour de force that traverses the expanse from the level of molecules and neurons, through mental processing, to societal forces of stability and change. He then applies this multi-level framework to explain earthly domains such as economics, religion and warfare, and to examine a variety of professions such as medicine, education and law. Mind-Society is at once accessible, insightful, and instructive. This compelling text makes cognitive science feel exceptionally clear, spanning and relevant." * Dan Simon, Professor of Law & Psychology, University of Southern California *Mind-Society by Paul Thagard is an intriguing book-broadly scoped, erudite, and framed by a unique perspective. It addresses both cognitive-emotional processes and social phenomena, moves fluidly between them, and weaves them together. It is the kind of book that I wish I could have written." * Ron Sun, Professor of Cognitive Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute *Provides a unified, mechanistic theory for the "Disciplines" and "Professions" that make up the social sciences... Interdisciplinary scholars in philosophy or the social sciences will find this book challenging but ultimately worthwhile." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I. Mechanisms 1. Explaining Social Change Social Change Explanatory Styles Mental, Neural, and Social Mechanisms Emergence The Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Applications Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 1: Social Change 2. Mental Mechanisms Cognition and Emotion Brains and Semantic Pointers Images Concepts Beliefs Rules Analogies Emotions Mapping Values Inference and Coherence Emotion-Driven Inferences Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 2: Mental Mechanisms 3. Social Mechanisms Social Mechanisms and Communication What are Social Mechanisms? Structural Connections Social Interactions Verbal Communication Inter-Agent Inference Social Mechanisms for Spreading Emotions Multilevel Explanations Change and Emergence Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 3: Social Mechanisms Part II. Social Sciences 4. Social Psychology: Romantic Relationships Relationships Matter Social Cognition and Microsociology Mechanisms in Relationships Murray and Holmes on Interdependent Minds Romantic Relationships: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Trust and Commitment Love Romantic Interactions Contrast with Gottman Relationship Success and Failure Does the Heart Want What It Wants? Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 4: Social Psychology 5. Sociology: Prejudice and Discrimination Discrimination and Prejudice Stereotypes Women: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Jews: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Social Norms and Institutions Overcoming Prejudice Conceptual Change Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 5: Sociology 6. Politics: Ideology Political Change Political Mechanisms Ideology: 3-Analysis Ideology: Value Maps Ideological Change The Islamic State: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Nazi Ideology Anarchism Extreme Right-Wing Political Movements Explaining Rwanda Atrocities Power Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 6: Politics 7. Economics: Bubbles and Crashes Beyond Animal Spirits Economic Decisions Booms and Bubbles: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Panics and Crashes: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Mindful Economics Reflexivity Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 7: Economics 8. Anthropology: Religion Cultures Religion The Latter-Day Saint Religion: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Why is the LDS Church Successful? Why is Religion Generally So Successful? Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 8: Anthropology 9. History and International Relations: War Explaining War History International Relations Nationalism Origins of the First World War: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Minds and Groups Historical Explanation Social Cognitivism as a Theory of International Relations Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 9: History Part III. Professions 10. Medicine: Mental Illness Mind, Society, and the Professions Medicine Mental Illness Depression: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Depression: Multilevel Mechanisms Treating Depression Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 10: Medicine 11. Law: Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Responsibility Legal Mechanisms Legal Coherence Wrongful Conviction: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Explaining Wrongful Convictions The Brain and Legal Responsibility Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 11: Law 12. Education: Teaching and Conceptual Change Learning and Teaching Vaccination: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Conceptual Change Teaching Better Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 12: Education 13. Engineering: Creative Design Creative Engineering Steve Jobs and Apple: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Engineering Creativity Teaching Creativity Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 13: Engineering 14. Business: Leadership and Marketing Vision Emotional Intelligence Charisma Leadership of Ed Catmull: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Marketing and Emotional Coherence Apple's Marketing: Social Cognitive-Emotional Workup Enhancing Collective Emotional Intelligence Professions and Social Change Summary and Discussion Notes to Chapter 14: Business References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Space Between
Book SynopsisWhen Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, his comments that a judge should have the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it''s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it''s like to be poor or African-American or gay, disabled, or old caused a furor. Objective, reasoned, and impartial judgment were to be replaced by partiality, sentiment, and bias, critics feared. This concern about empathy has since been voiced not just by conservative critics, but by academics and public figures. In The Space Between, Heidi Maibom combines results from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to argue that rather than making us more biased or partial, empathy makes us more impartial and more objective. The problem is that we don''t see the world objectively in the first place, Maibom explains. We see it in terms of how we are placed in it: as an extension of our interests, capabilities, and relationships. This is a perspective and it determines what wTrade ReviewThe book's audience is interdisciplinary, and the writing is accessible. The text includes useful, sometimes humorous, examples and less jargon than one would expect when philosopher meets social psychologist and lawyer. This argument for empathy in moral decision-making will be welcome in law, philosophy, and social psychology collections. * Choice *[The Space Between] is compelling in its arguments, and lively in its writing, with trenchant examples drawn not only from philosophical and psychological theorizing, but also from cultural sources as varied as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Moby Dick, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I learned a lot from reading this book; despite having studied empathy in one form or another for over 40 years, this book made me think about perspective taking in some entirely new ways. * Mark H. Davis, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Eckerd College and author of Empathy: A Social Psychological Approach *Heidi Maibom's new book is a comprehensive, philosophically astute, and psychologically meticulously researched study about the role that imaginative perspective-taking plays for interpersonal understanding and our self-conceptions. The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works is a thoroughly enjoyable read in that it illustrates abstract points through well-chosen examples from literature, film, and ordinary life. It very much practices what it preaches. * Karsten R. Stueber, Professor of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross and author of Rediscovering Empathy *The 'social brain' involves as much plastic cortex as brain areas for science, logic, and the three r's. Yet, until now, empathy has remained poorly understood. This engaging, humorous, and insightful book provides the first intellectually satisfying account of this sophisticated mode of human understanding. Maibom brilliantly reveals why empathy depends on emotion and how it makes us more--not less--impartial and objective. * Anthony I. Jack, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Brain, Mind & Consciousness Lab, Case Western Reserve University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART I: PERSPECTIVES: WHAT ARE THEY? Chapter 1: The Space Between Chapter 2: What Is a Perspective? Chapter 3: The Self as Agent, The Self as Observer Chapter 4: Victims and Perpetrators Chapter 5: Getting Interpersonal PART II: HOW TO TAKE ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW Chapter 6: Perspective Taking Chapter 7: Knowing You Chapter 8: Knowing Me Chapter 9: The Empathy Trap Chapter 10: Being Impartial References
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Oxford University Press Inc No Professors Lectures Can Save Us William Jamess
Book SynopsisIn No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us, John J. Stuhr utilizes the thought of American philosopher and psychologist William James to develop an original world view that addresses both enduring philosophical problems and contemporary cultural issues.Trade ReviewJohn Stuhr's No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us masterfully voices the animating principles of William James's pragmatism as an on--going, collective project. Attuned to the full sweep of James's thought from his earliest to his latest writings, Stuhr gives us a new, and newly comprehensive James, one invigorated and tuned to the demands of our own time. Every day is a good day to read James. Stuhr not only reminds us why; he shows us how urgent it is to keep reading and to keep the pragmatic spirit alive * Megan Craig, Center for Embodied Cognition and Creativity, Stony Brook University *John Stuhr has provided an exhilarating exhibition of William James's own prose on virtually every aspect of his wide ranging philosophy. Like James, Stuhr invites his readers to develop their own always-personal philosophies, and generously offers his original Jamesian philosophy in dialogue with such leading contemporaries as Deleuze and Rorty, and every major cultural debate. This is the best, most up-to-date scholarship I have read in a long time. * Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College *It is assuredly true that no professor's lectures-or books-can save us from the challenges of living our lives in an uncertain world. In this most Jamesian of books, however, John Stuhr powerfully demonstrates what they can do: help us connect with the authenticity of our experience; dynamogenically awaken our sense of agency, purpose, and community; and inspire us to the informed action needed to make our lives and our corner of the world better. Stuhr's work is a marvelous exemplar of the Positive Humanities and-at a time when good news can seem very hard to come by-presents a much-needed, practical philosophy to help us effectively cultivate our individual well-being and foster collective human flourishing. * James O. Pawelski, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania *The book is written in a way that reflects the richness and interconnectedness of James' philosophy. * Céline Henne, The Metascience *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations of The Works of William James Introduction Chapter 1: Possibilities, Faith, and Action: Redeeming the Wild Universe through The Will to Believe Chapter 2: Avoiding Old-Fogeyism: Plasticity, Habits of Genius, and Acts of Greatness Chapter 3: More Inclusive Ideals: Ethical Lives After Old-Fashioned Moral Philosophy Chapter 4: The Political Philosopher and the Political Life Chapter 5: The Temperament of Pragmatism Chapter 6: Everything Here Is Plastic: Radical Empiricism and Worlds of Relations Chapter 7: Pluralism Unconcluded Works Cited Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Complex Tapestry of Free Will
Book SynopsisRobert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of his views since his 1996 volume The Significance of Free Will, and provides responses to some of the latest critical literature on them. He explains significant changes to his views on free will and related notions of moral responsibility, agency, and other related topics.In the first half of the book Kane presents an overview of his current views with the significant additions and alterations to them spelled out and defended in greater detail. In the second half he critically examines the influential views of the many other philosophers of the past twenty-five years who have defended alternative views of free will and moral responsibility, including prominent defenders of competing libertarian views, compatibilist views, free will skeptical views, revisionist views, illusionist views, and others. Kane''s goal here is not to merely criticize these alternative views, but to show what he believes they get right and what aspects of many of them can be accommodated in the views of free will, moral responsibility, and other related topics defended in the book. His conclusion connects his views to certain ethical views he has developed, and to ideas in the philosophy of religion, including Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism) and Western and Middle Eastern theistic traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). The Complex Tapestry of Free Will presents an up-to-date overview of the current state of arguments and views on free will and related topics of moral and legal responsibility in ethics, law, science and religion, accessible to those not already familiar with the free will literature, while also developing novel and complex ideas on difficult subjects.
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Oxford University Press The Disappearance of the Soul and the Turn
Book SynopsisTextor reveals the roots of analytic philosophy in a great age of Austro-German philosophy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He introduces Brentano, Mach, and other key figures, and traces the development of the landmark ideas that there can be 'psychology without a soul', and that metaphysics lies beyond the limits of knowledge.Trade ReviewMark Textor has written a fascinating book about the vanishing of a classical concept in philosophy:the soul...defnitely worth reading. * María de Paz, Metascience *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements The Players Introduction Part I: The Evaporation of the Soul- and other Substances 1: Psychology, the Science of the Soul 2: 'Psychology without a Soul' 3: From Substance and Accident to Complex and Element Part II: Managing without the Soul: Intentionality, Dualism, and Neutral Monism 4: The Mental and the Physical, Only A Matter of Perspective? 5: The Mental and the Physical, an Intrinsic Distinction 6: The Intentionality Challenge Part III: From Psychology without a Soul to Psychology with a Self and Beyond: The Anglo-Austro-German Axis 1886-1921 Introduction to Part III: 'Shocked and Disappointed' 7: Cambridge Psychology between Lotze and Brentano 8: The Rise and Fall of the Subject: A Case Study 9: Act/Content/Object, Act/Object, or Just Object? Part IV: Intuition, Metaphysics and the Limits of Knowledge Introduction to Part IV 10: Brentano's One-Term View of Judgement 11: Judgement in the Service of the Will - Voluntaristic Conceptions of Judgement 12: The Nature of Knowledge: Avenarius and Schlick 13: Drawing the Limits of Knowledge 14: Beyond the Limits of Knowledge
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Oxford University Press Psychiatry Reborn Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in
Book SynopsisPsychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial Psychiatry in Modern Medicine is a comprehensive collection of essays by leading experts in the field, and provides a timely reassessment of the biopsychosocial approach in psychiatry. Spanning the sciences and philosophy of psychiatry, the essays offer complementary perspectives on the ever more urgent importance of the biopsychosocial approach to modern medicine. The collection brings together ideas from the series of Loebel Lectures by world leaders in the field of psychiatry and associated Workshops at the University of Oxford, including revised versions of the Lectures themselves, and a wide range of related commentaries and position pieces. With contributions from psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, the book provides the most comprehensive account to date of the interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors in mental health and their ethical dimensions. The 23 chapters of this multi-authored book review the history and place of the biopsychosocial model in medicine, and explore its strengths and shortcomings. In particular, it considers how understanding this interplay might lead to more effective treatments for mental health disorders, as developments in genomic and neurobiological medicine challenge traditional conceptions and approaches to the research and treatment of mental health disorders. The book explores the challenges and rewards of developing diagnostic tools and clinical interventions that take account of the inextricably intertwined bio-psycho-social domains, and the ethical implications of the conceptualization. It concludes with chapters drawing together the book''s range of expertise to propose a best conception of the model, and how it might be adopted going forward in an age of exponentially increasing technological advances and of integrated/collaborative care. The volume is intended to present the BPS model as it stands today in the academy, the lab, and the clinic, and to start to address the challenges and potential that the model has for each.Trade ReviewThis interesting book addresses various topics related to the so-called biopsychosocial (BPS) model of mental health ... fascinating ideas abound throughout. * D. C. Marston, CHOICE *Psychiatry Reborn is a serious and scholarly attempt at making sense of the fractured nature of psychiatry as a discipline. It does so by engaging with philosophical arguments as well as research studies, and it is a valuable book for psychiatrists, psychologists, and philosophers. It is particularly essential reading for students of the BPSM and pluralism in psychiatry, and will shape the discussion on how to best understand the BPSM for years to come. * Awais Aftab, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Metapsychology *Table of Contents1. Introduction 1: Pierre Loebel and Julian Savulescu: Introduction 2: Rebecca Roache: The biopsychosocial model in psychiatry: Engel and beyond 2. Multi-level Interactions 3: Kenneth Kendler and Chistopher Gyngell: Multi-level Interactions and the Dappled Causal World of Psychiatric Disorders 4: Rachel Cooper: When answers are hard to find, change the question: Asking different causal questions can enable progress 5: Simone PW Haller and Kathrin Cohen Kadosh: A developmental approach to understanding psychiatric disorders: Mapping etiological pathways 6: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Jesse S. Summers: Which biopsychosocial view of psychiatry? 7: Neil Levy: The Truth in Social Construction 8: Bill Fulford: Minority Report: Values-based Practice and Making it Real 9: Graeme C. Smith: Formulation in the face of complexity 3. Risk and Resilience 10: Essi Viding: Developmental risk and resilience: The challenge of translating multi-level data to concrete interventions 11: Eamon J. McCrory: The case for a preventative approach to mental health: Childhood maltreatment, neuroimaging and the theory of latent vulnerability 12: Charlotte A.M. Cecil: Biopsychosocial pathways to mental health and disease across the lifespan: The emerging role of epigenetics 13: Richard Holton: Reacting to Abuse 14: Peter Dayan, Jonathan P Roiser, and Essi Viding: The First Steps on Long Marches: The Costs of Active Observation 15: Tim Thornton: Psychiatry's inchoate wish for a paradigm shift and the bio-psycho-social model of mental illness 16: Matthew Parrott: Ignoring faces and making friends 4. Neurobiology and the Biopsychosocial Model 17: Steve Hyman and Doug McConnell: Mental illness: The collision of meaning with mechanism 18: Doug McConnell: The biopsychosocial model, DSM, and neurobiology: The need for a new approach 19: Jonathan Glover: The proper place of subjectivity, meaning, and folk-psychology in psychiatry 20: Nassir Ghaemi: Psychiatry, folk psychology and the impact of neuroscience - a response to Steven Hyman's Loebel Lectures 21: Jan Christop Bublitz: Objectification: Ethical and Epistemic Concern of Neurobiological Approaches to the Mind 5. The Future 22: Rebecca Roache: How to adopt the biopsychosocial model 23: Doug McConnell: Specifying the best conception of the biopsychosocial model
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Oxford University Press Body Schema and Body Image New Directions
Book SynopsisFollowing on from Shaun Gallagher's influential 2005 book How the Body Shapes the Mind, this volume brings together leading experts from the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry in a productive dialogue, exploring key questions and debates about the relationship between body schema and body image.Trade Reviewa most precise, clear compendium of knowledge * Annika Reinersmann, Perception *Overall, this text is surprisingly readable and accessible. The issues are clearly explained, and readers will feel at the cutting edge of an important research trend. * J. F. Richeimer, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPart I: Theoretical clarification:Body schema and body image 1: Frédérique de Vignemont, Victor Pitron, and Adrian J.T. Alsmith: What is the body schema? 2: David Morris: The space of the body schema: putting the schema in movement 3: Jan Halák: Body schema dynamics in Merleau-Ponty 4: Helena De Preester: A radical phenomenology of the body: subjectivity and sensations in body image and body schema 5: Shogo Tanaka: Body schema and body image in motor learning: refining Merleau-Ponty>'s notion of body schema 6: Shaun Gallagher: Reimagining the body image 7: Andreas Kalckert: The body in the German neurology of the early 20th century Part II: Brain, body and self 8: Daniele Romano and Angelo Maravita: Plasticity and tool use in the body schema 9: Noriaki Kanayama and Kentaro Hiromitsu: Triadic body representations in the human cerebral cortex and peripheral nerves 10: Matej Hoffmann: Body models in humans, animals, and robots 11: Philippe Rochat and Sara Valencia Botto: From implicit to explicit body awareness in the first two years of life 12: Shu Imaizumi, Tomohisa Asai, and Michiko Miyazaki: Cross-referenced body and action for the unified self: empirical, developmental, and clinical perspectives 13: Manos Tsakiris and Rosie Drysdale: Growing up a self: on the relation between body image and the experience of the interoceptive body Part III: Disorders, anomalies and therapies 14: Jonathan Cole: The embodied and social self: insights on body image and body schema from neurological conditions 15: Yves Rossetti, Laurence Havé, Anne-Emmanuelle Priot, Laure Pisella, and Gilles Rode: Unilateral body neglect: schemas vs images? 16: Jasmine Ho and Bigna Lenggenhager: Neurological underpinnings of body image and body schema disturbances 17: Britt Normann: Body schema and body image disturbances in individuals with multiple sclerosis 18: Katsunori Miyahara: Body-schema and pain 19: Masayuki Hara, Olaf Blanke, and Noriaki Kanayama: Feeling of a presence and anomalous body perception 20: Yochai Ataria and Aviya Ben David: The body-image-body-schema/ownership-agency model for pathologies: four case studies
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Oxford University Press Frege on Language Logic and Psychology Selected
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers by Eva Picardi (1948-2017), one of the most influential Italian philosophers of her generation, examines the work of Gottlob Frege. Picardi combines theoretical and historical considerations to bring out the significance of his work for contemporary philosophy of language.Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Annalisa Coliva Part I: Frege in Context--Logic and Psychology 1: The Logic of Frege's Contemporaries 2: Kerry and Frege on Concept and Object 3: Sigwart, Husserl, and Frege on Truth and Logic, or Is Psychologism Still a Threat? 4: Frege's Anti-Psychologism 5: Frege, Peano, and Russell on the Primitive Ideas of Logic Part II: Frege's Philosophy of Language 6: Über Sinn und Bedeutung: An Elementary Exposition 7: The Chemistry of Concepts 8: Assertion and Assertion Sign 9: A Note on Dummett and Frege on Sense-Identity 10: Michael Dummett's Interpretation of Frege's Context Principle: Some Reflections Part III: Frege s Legacy 11: Carnap Interpreter of Frege 12: Frege and Davidson on Predication 13: Davidson and Frege on the Unity of the Proposition: Some Remarks 14: Was Frege a Proto-Inferentialist?
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Oxford University Press Platos Epistemology Being and Seeming
Book SynopsisPlato's Epistemology presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Moss argues, against the grain of much modern scholarship, that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own.Trade ReviewMoss deserves the genuine gratitude of any serious Platonic scholar for a stimulating, rigorous (and to me largely convincing) volume, whose results will surely have a considerable impact on future research and command respectful attention. * Roberto Granieri, KU Leuven, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Oxford University Press The Undivided Self
Book SynopsisAristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The aim of this book is to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical scrutiny. Aristotle''s account, it is argued, constitutes a philosophically live alternative to conventional post-Cartesian thinking about psychological phenomena and their place in a material world. It offers a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.Trade ReviewThis exegetical work...makes an important contribution to our philosophical understanding of the mind body relationship. * Andree Hahmann, GNOMON *So filled is it with careful, intelligent, and fruitful speculation that this review has, of necessity, prescinded from discussing the many measured investigations of Aristotelian texts it offers. These investigations are none the less surely worth studying, in one way by any scholar interested in Aristotle's psychology and in another way by any metaphysically informed philosopher of mind. Charles, as these pages make clear, is both. * Christopher Shields, Australasian Journal of Philosophy *The range of issues addressed in the volume and its unflagging engagement with these issues will be a source of inspiration to its readers as an example of intellectual courage. * REFIK GÜREMEN, Middle East Technical University, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW *The result is a splendid study, technical yet readable, and extremely compelling. The audience for this indispensable volume will be scholars in a variety of philosophical fields, including ancient philosophy and philosophy of mind. The book will also appeal to psychologists with theoretical interests. * F. A. Grabowski, Rogers State University, Choice Connect *This important and challenging book is the fruit of many years of engagement with Aristotle's thinking about the soul-body relation by one of the most distinguished experts in the field. David Charles does what many have tried to do during the past fifty years, but he does it with more radicalism and ingenuity than, as far as I can see, anyone has done before. . . . The Undivided Self confronts us with important questions about the fundaments of our thinking about mind and nature.It presents a serious challenge to modern interpreters of Aristotle and demands attention from contemporary philosophers of mind. * Klaus Corcilius, Mind *This book best shows its brilliance in its subtle analysis of Aristotle's remarks on emotion, desire, perception, and imagination, its grand systematizing ambition, and its spirited defense of the credibility of an Aristotelian approach to philosophical psychology. Charles succeeds in laying a simple, elegant theoretical foundation upon which he is then able to erect an intricate edifice of nuanced observations. This achievement is the culmination of decades of thought about some of the most important issues in Aristotle's philosophical psychology and will be indispensable for those interested in carrying discussion of such issues forward. * Bryan Reece, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *the book strikes the reader as an example of how a line of interpretation can be developed into a compelling reading at the hands of a perspicacious scholar. . . . [Charles] offers, in the introduction, different paths of reading his book through its chapters, which makes it all the more appealing to specialists, and to non-specialists as well, in philosophy of mind and ancient philosophy. The range of issues addressed in the volume and its unflagging engagement with these issues will be a source of inspiration to its readers as an example of intellectual courage. * Refik Güremen, The Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The Emotions 2: Enmattered form: Aristotle's Hylomorphism 3: Desire and Action 4: Taste and Smell: with some remarks on Touch 5: Hearing, Seeing and Hylomorphism 6: Perception, Desire and Action: inextricably embodied subjects 7: Aristotle's Viewpoint 8: Aristotle's Undivided Self
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Oxford University Press Mind as Metaphor A Defence of Mental Fictionalism
Book SynopsisMind as Metaphor shows that mental fictionalism can make sense of our concept of mind, avoiding the difficulties faced by alternative approaches, such as behaviourism or instrumentalism. Adam Toon sheds light on a range of issues, from the mind's capacity to represent the world to the way in which new practices expand the limits of inquiryTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction: The story of the ghost in the machine 1: Making Up Minds 2: Contrasts, causes, and consciousness 3: Minds and representations 4: Minds and materials 5: Inquiring minds Epilogue: An uneasy presence References
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Oxford University Press Consciousness
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Columbia University Press Mind Ecologies Body Brain and World
Book SynopsisMatthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, and history of science, Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended nature of mind.Trade ReviewMind Ecologies is a valuable and comprehensive contribution that certainly strengthens and amplifies recent efforts to show that pragmatism is an extremely useful asset that can bring different perspectives to contemporary debates on affectivity, embodiment, and the ecological relation between agents and the environment. -- Carlos Vara Sanchez * European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy *Mind Ecologies offers a lively and informative history of Pragmatist thought, revealing how it both anticipated current work in philosophy and the sciences of the mind, and how it can be applied to great effect. Crippen and Schulkin make a convincing case that we are 'living ecologies'—integrated, interdependent systems—not detached, isolated intellects. -- Louise Barrett, author of Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human MindsMind Ecologies is wide-ranging and timely both as a contribution to today's philosophy of cognitive science and as a reminder of historical antecedents. This work will amplify and improve upon recent attempts to show that pragmatism and phenomenological philosophy are relevant to today’s sciences of the mind. -- Anthony Chemero, author of Radical Embodied Cognitive ScienceThis accessibly written book was long due. We finally have a clear and detailed overview of how pragmatism anticipated many key ideas of the field of 4E cognition. One theme that stands out as particularly interesting and refreshing is the pragmatists' emphasis on the affective-evaluative and aesthetic dimension of perception and cognition. -- Giovanna Colombetti, author of The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive MindAccessible for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students...Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Life, Experimentalism, and Valuation2. Pragmatism and Embodied Cognitive Science3. Social Cohesion, Experience, and Aesthetics4. Pragmatism and Affective Cognition5. Perception, Affect, World6. Broadening EcologiesAppendix 1: Subcortical Structures of the BrainAppendix 2: Cortical Structures of the BrainNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Contemplation
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MIT Press Ltd Sentience
Book SynopsisThe story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's leading theoretical psychologists.We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, Nicholas Humphrey describes in Sentience his quest for answers: from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his pioneering work on social intelligence to breakthroughs in the philosophy of mind.The goal is to solve the hard problem: to explain the wondrous, eerie fact of “phenomenal consciousness”—the redness of a poppy, the sweetness of honey, the pain of a bee sting. What does this magical dimension of experience amount to? What is it for? And why has it evolved? Humphrey presents here his new
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MIT Press Ltd The Conscious Mind
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MIT Press Ltd Boredom
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Penguin Publishing Group The Science of Mind Deluxe LeatherBound Edition
Book SynopsisCELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF CHANGING THE WORLD! One of the most important spiritual manifestos of modern times—Ernest Holmes's magnum opus—in a gorgeous leather-bound edition.The Science of Mind has been heralded as one of the most influential and widely read works of spiritual thought in the last century. Hundreds of thousands of copies in all editions have been sold over the years, and millions of people have benefited from the wisdom in this book—a book that sparked a spiritual revolution.Now Tarcher/Penguin will be offering the most complete and beautifully packaged leather-bound edition—in time to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1938 edition of The Science of Mind. This edition will include:• Black bonded-leather binding• 4-color designed box• Gilded edges• Ribbon marker• Concordanceand more!
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Random House USA Inc The Souls Code
Book Synopsis“[An] acute and powerful vision . . . offers a renaissance of humane values.”—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life Plato called it “daimon,” the Romans “genius,” the Christians “guardian angel”; today we use such terms as “heart,” “spirit,” and “soul.” While philosophers and psychologists from Plato to Jung have studied and debated the fundamental essence of our individuality, our modern culture refuses to accept that a unique soul guides each of us from birth, shaping the course of our lives. In this extraordinary bestseller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?” Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices—from the way we raise our children to our career paths to our social and personal commitments to achieving excellence in our time. Praise for The Soul’s Code “Champions a glorious sort of rugged individualism that, with the help of an inner daimon (or guardian angel), can triumph against all odds.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] brilliant, absorbing work . . . Hillman dares us to believe that we are each meant to be here, that we are needed by the world around us.”—Publishers Weekly
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Connectionism and the Mind
Book SynopsisConnectionism and the Mind provides a clear and balanced introduction to connectionist networks and explores theoretical and philosophical implications. Much of this discussion from the first edition has been updated, and three new chapters have been added on the relation of connectionism to recent work on dynamical systems theory, artificial life, and cognitive neuroscience. Read two of the sample chapters on line: Connectionism and the Dynamical Approach to Cognition: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/bechtel.pdf Networks, Robots, and Artificial Life: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/bechtel2.pdfTrade Review"Much more than just an update, this is a thorough and exciting re-build of the classic text. Excellent new treatments of modularity, dynamics, artificial life, and cognitive neuroscience locate connectionism at the very heart of contemporary debates. A superb combination of detail, clarity, scope, and enthusiasm." Andy Clark, University of Sussex "Connectionism and the Mind is an extraordinarily comprehensive and thoughtful review of connectionism, with particular emphasis on recent developments. This new edition will be a valuable primer to those new to the field. But there is more: Bechtel and Abrahamsen's trenchant and even-handed analysis of the conceptual issues that are addressed by connectionist models constitute an important original theoretical contribution to cognitive science." Jeff Elman, University of California at San DiegoTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Networks versus Symbol Systems: Two Approaches to Modeling Cognition:. A Revolution in the Making?. Forerunners of Connectionism: Pandemonium and Perceptrons. The Allure of Symbol Manipulation. The Disappearance and Re-emergence of Network Models. New Alliances and Unfinished Business. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. 2. Connectionist Architectures:. The Flavor of Connectionist Processing: A Simulation of Memory Retrieval. The Design Features of a Connectionist Architecture. The Allure of the Connectionist Approach. Challenges Facing Connectionist Networks. Summary. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. 3. Learning:. Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to Learning. Connectionist Models of Learning. Some Issues Regarding Learning. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. 4. Pattern Recognition and Cognition:. Networks as Pattern Recognition Devices. Extending Pattern Recognition to Higher Cognition. Logical Inference as Pattern Recognition. Beyond Pattern Recognition. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. 5. Are Rules Required to Process Representations?:. Is Language Use Governed by Rules?. Rumelhart and McClelland's Model of Past-Tense Acquisition. Pinker and Prince's Arguments for Rules. Accounting for the U-Shaped Learning Function. Conclusion. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. 6. Are Syntactically Structured Representations Needed?:. Fodor and Pylyshyn's Critique: The Need for Symbolic Representations with Constituent Structure. First Connectionist Response: Explicitly Implementing Rules and Representations. Second Connectionist Response: Implementing Functionally Compositional Representations. Third Connectionist Response: Employing Procedural Knowledge with External Symbols. Using External Symbols to Provide Exact Symbol Processing. Clarifying the Standard: Systematicity and Degree of Generalizability. Conclusion. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. 7. Simulating Higher Cognition: A Modular Architecture for Processing Scripts:. Overview of Scripts. Overview of Miikkulainen's DISCERN System. Modular Connectionist Architectures. FGREP: An Architecture that Allows the System to Devise Its Own Representations. A Self-organizing Lexicon using Kohonen Feature Maps. Encoding and Decoding Stories as Scripts. A Connectionist Episodic Memory. Performance: Paraphrasing Stories and Answering Questions. Evaluating DISCERN. Paths Beyond the First Decade of Connectionism. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. 8. Connectionism and the Dynamical Approach to Cognition:. Are We on the Road to a Dynamical Revolution?. Basic Concepts of DST: The Geometry of Change. Using Dynamical Systems Tools to Analyze Networks. Putting Chaos to Work in Networks. Is Dynamicism a Competitor to Connectionism?. Is Dynamicism Complementary to Connectionism?. Conclusion. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. 9. Networks, Robots, and Artificial Life:. Robots and the Genetic Algorithm. Cellular Automata and the Synthetic Strategy. Evolution and Learning in Food-seekers. Evolution and Development in Khepera. The Computational Neuroethology of Robots. When Philosophers Encounter Robots. Conclusion. Sources and Suggested Readings. 10. Connectionism and the Brain:. Connectionism Meets Cognitive Neuroscience. Four Connectionist Models of Brain Processes. The Neural Implausibility of Many Connectionist Models. Wither Connectionism?. Notes. Sources and Suggested Readings. Appendix A: Notation. Appendix B: Glossary. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.
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Princeton University Press The Vehement Passions
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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Princeton University Press Rethinking Language Mind and Meaning
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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Rowman & Littlefield Pornography Embodied From Speech to Sexual
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to re-conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Sidestepping the legal debates over their civil ordinance, and drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, Mason-Grant returns to the innovative core of the Dworkin- MacKinnon critique of mainstream pornography.Trade ReviewIn direct and conceptually vivid prose, Mason-Grant extradites the core of the Dworkin/McKinnon analysis of pornography from its distorting entanglement with legal issues of freedom of speech. In restoring the 'practice paradigm' Mason-Grant elaborates a compelling and disturbing phenomenological account of pornography as a lived corporeal practice of sexual know-how. For the many of us who have misconceived Dworkin and McKinnon's work, this intelligent book is a welcome and vital corrective. -- Sue Campbell, Dalhousie UniversityThis work is a valuable contribution to political theory, because it provides not only a systematic overview and critical evaluation of the literature on identity, but also an original theorization. * Political Studies Review *A carefully researched, elegantly written analysis of pornography as an irreducibly embodied, systemic material practice of subordination. Mason-Grant exposes the constitutive effects of sedimented mind/body, reason/emotion, and male/female dichotomies in shaping the everyday sexual politics and practices of western societies. Thoughtfully conceived and argued, innovative and resourceful in showing how pornography is no mere speech act—though it is that too—this book points toward ways of repairing a rift between practice and theory by recentering pornography debates around issues of knowledge, of (often tacit) know-how. -- Lorraine Code, York University, TorontoTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Pornography as a Systemic Practice of Subordination Chapter 3 Equality, Speech and Pornography Chapter 4 The Subordination of Pornography as Illocutionary Force Chapter 5 Bodily Practices and the Production of Tacit Know-how Chapter 6 The Use of Pornography as a Subordinating Practice Chapter 7 Conclusion: Revolutionizing Practice Chapter 8 Appendix Chapter 9 Bibliography
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Rowman & Littlefield Sex A Philosophical Primer
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book demonstrates the scholarly rigor and lucid writing that we have come to expect from Singer. -- Robert C. Solomon, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, AustIrving Singer offers us his mature reflections on the nature and evaluation of human sexuality in this important new study—a welcome addition to his earlier pathbreaking writings on the philosophy of love. He is, as always, illuminating, insightful, and persuasive. I recommend it without reservation to all who are interested in broad philosophical questions of love and sex. -- Robert M. Stewart, California State University at ChicoTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Sex, Love, Compassion Chapter 3 Patterns of the Sensuous and the Passionate Chapter 4 The Nature and Evaluation of Sex Chapter 5 Criteria of Sexual Goodness: Pleasure, Enjoyment and Satisfaction, Completeness and Reciprocity, Love, Embodyment and Absorption, Natural and Unnatural Chapter 6 Is There an Art of Sex? Chapter 7 Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Sex
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Rowman & Littlefield Between the Psyche and the Social Psychoanalytic
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses specifically on the field of psychoanalytic social theory emerging in and between psychoanalysis, feminism, post-colonial studies and queer theory, and across the disciplines of philosophy, literary, film and cultural studies.
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University Press of America Why the MindBody Problem Cannot be Solved Some
Book SynopsisIn Why the Mind-Body Problem CANNOT Be Solved, Irving Krakow shows that a satisfactory scientific explanation of conscious experience isn't possible for methodological and semantic reasons. The reason is that sentences about conscious experience cannot be deduced from sentences about the brain's neurology without using brain-mind correlations.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 The Correlation Theory of Consciousness Chapter 4 More on Introspection Chapter 5 Why the Mind-Body Problem Cannot Be Solved Chapter 6 Brain-Mind Correlation, Identity Theory, and Reductionism Chapter 7 Epiphenomenalism as a Purely Scientific Problem Chapter 8 The Self, the Brain, and Free Will Chapter 9 Some Final Reflections Chapter 10 What Are We?
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Random House USA Inc Awakening the Buddha Within
Book SynopsisLama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are in order to lead a more compassionate, enlightened, and balanced life. It illuminates the guidelines and key principles embodied in the noble Eight-Fold Path and the traditional Three Enlightenment Trainings common to all schools of Buddhism:Wisdom Training: Developing clear vision, insight, and inner understanding—seeing reality and ourselves as we really are.Ethics Training: Cultivating virtue, self-discipline, and compassion in what we say and do.Meditation Training:
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Hill & Wang Out of Our Heads
Book SynopsisAlva Noë is one of a new breedpart philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientistwho are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: do away with the two-hundred-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain.Our culture is obsessed with the brainhow it perceives; how it remembers; how it determines our intelligence, our morality, our likes and our dislikes. It''s widely believed that consciousness itself, that Holy Grail of science and philosophy, will soon be given a neural explanation. And yet, after decades of research, only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscioushow it gives rise to sensation, feeling, and subjectivityhas emerged unchallenged: we don''t have a clue.In this inventive work, Noë sugge
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Fordham University Press Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
Book SynopsisNietzsche advocates the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche.Trade Review"This exciting collection of essays challenges existing interpretations of several key moments of Nietzsche's philosophy, especially his understanding of biological life and what it means for human beings to affirm life. Individual chapters cast new light on his relationship to thinkers such as Darwin, Emerson, Empedocles, and Hegel. This immensely rich book should be read by everyone interested in contemporary Nietzsche scholarship!" -- -Paul Patton Scientia Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia "From his earliest work, where the philosopher's task was to 'look at science through the optic of the artist, but also to look at art through the optic of life,' to his final critiques of nihilism and the ascetic ideal for their inability to affirm or enhance life, Nietzsche's thinking never strayed from the perspective of life. But what does Nietzsche mean by 'life'? And what would it mean to affirm it? Rather than concede to the biological and evolutionary sciences the task of unlocking the secret codes of life, Vanessa Lemm brings together in this timely volume essays by an international array of leading Nietzsche scholars who examine from each of the three dominant approaches to Nietzsche interpretation-existentialist, naturalist, and poststructuralist Nietzsche's insight that the becoming of biological life is of the utmost normative significance to human beings." -- -Alan D. Schrift Grinnell College "Vanessa Lemm is one of the most original Nietzsche scholars working today and an expert on a key aspect of Nietzsche's thought: animal life. Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life presents original interpretations of Nietzsche's works, addressing his conception of life from the observation point of topics such as naturalism, evolutionary biology, bodily experience, normativity, justice, and self-experimentation. It is a much welcome addition to Nietzsche studies." -- -Federico Luisetti The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The roster of contributors is impressive, comprising top-notch Nietzsche scholars from North and South America, as well as Europe. The seventeen papers collected here represent a diverse but coherent and complementary range of interpretive approaches, all of which focus on different aspects of Nietzsche's conception of life and related topics. A collection like this is a real boon to Nietzsche studies." -- -Peter Groff Bucknell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Vanessa Lemm Part I: Contesting Nietzsche's Naturalism 1. The Optics of Science, Art, and Life Tracy B. Strong 2. Nietzsche, Nature, and Life Affirmation Lawrence J. Hatab Part II: Evolution, Teleology, and the Laws of Nature 3. Is Evolution Blind? On Nietzsche's Reception of Darwin Virginia Cano 4. Nietzsche and the Nineteenth-Century Debate on Teleology Mariana A. Cruz 5. Nietzsche's Conception of "Necessity" and Its Relation to "Laws of Nature" Herman W. Siemens Part III: Justice and the Law of Life 6. Life and Justice in Nietzsche's Conception of History Vanessa Lemm 7. Life, Injustice, and Recurrence Scott Jenkins 8. Heeding the Law of Life: Receptivity, Submission, Hospitality Daniel D. Conway Part IV: The Becoming of a New Body and Sensibility 9. Toward the Body of the Overman Debra Bergoffen 10. Nietzsche's Synaesthetic Epistemology and the Restitution of the Holistic Human Rainer J. Hanshe 11. Nietzsche's Naturalist Morality of Breeding: A Critique of Eugenics as Taming Donovan Miyasaki 12. An "Other Way of Being": The Nietzschean "Animal": Contributions to the Question of Biopolitics Monica B. Cragnolini Part V: Purification and the Freedom of Death 13. Nietzsche and the Transformation of Death Eduardo Nasser 14. Becoming and Purification: Empedocles, Zarathustra's Ubermensch, and Lucian's Tyrant Babette Babich Part VI: The Becoming of the Soul: Nomadism and Self-Experiment 15. "Falling In Love with Becoming": Remarks on Nietzsche and Emerson Dieter Thoma 16. "We Are Experiments": Nietzsche on Morality and Authenticity Keith Ansell-Pearson 17. States and Nomads: Hegel's World and Nietzsche's Earth Gary Shapiro Notes List of Contributors Index
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Tarcher/Putnam,US JoyS Way Introduction to the Potentials for
Book SynopsisIn 1974 Dr. W. Brugh Joy was a distinguished and respected member of the Los Angeles medical community. In that year he contracted a life-threatening disease that culminated in an illuminating meditation, which caused him to give up his medical practice abruptly. Six weeks later he discovered that his illness was totally cured. This experience pushed him to further his explorations into realms of healing involving body energies, the chakra system, meditation, and higher levels of consciousness. In part, Joy’s Way is the story of an extraordinary personal transformation. More significantly, it is a book that shows vividly the process of individual and group transformation and that rattles and re-forms the reader's concepts of the nature of reality. It expands our vision of our own unrealized potential to be conscious beings who are alert to multiple realities, and introduces us to the seemingly miraculous abilities associated with energy fields radiating from the hu
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Gateways Books & Tapes,US Human Biological Machine as a Transformational
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of ideas and hypotheses, and discusses the body's essential role in personal transformation and spiritual development. This book looks at the crucial observation that the 'body-mind' must act as an ally and collaborator in human consciousness (or essence growth) using actual experiments meant to demonstrate the concepts.Trade Review"Not only Mr. Gold's most innovative book, but perhaps the most useful item in contemporary post-Gurdjieffian literature." --Dr. Claudio Naranjo, author, Character and Neurosis and The One Quest"E. J. Gold has hit the nail squarely on the head. . . . To complete one's own inner transformation is the only task worth taking seriously. Everything else is secondary." --Robert S. de Ropp, author, The Master Game
£16.10
BOA Editions, Limited John Logan The Collected Fiction
Book SynopsisHighly autobiographical, rich in texture, often comic, and as spiritual as breath, the eighteen stories in John Logan: The Collected Fiction are free standing sources of fictive pleasure and illuminations of both the personality and art of the man whom Robert Bly has called one of the five or six finest poets to emerge in the United States in the last decades.
£24.13
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Mystery of Consciousness
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New Academy Publishing Simple Awakening
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£13.46
St Martin's Press The French Art of Living Well
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Bringing up Bebe and French Toast, Cathy Yandell''s The French Art of Living Well is a delightful look at French culture, from literature to cuisine to humor and more, showing how the French have captured that magic elixir known as joie de vivre.What is joie de vivre, and why is it a fundamentally French concept?In search of those ineffable qualities that make up the joy of living, this lively book takes readers on a voyage to France through forays into literature, history, and culture. How does art contribute to daily life? Why is cuisine such a central part of French existence? Why are the French more physical than many other cultures? How do French attitudes toward time speak volumes about their sense of pleasure and celebration? And finally, to what extent is this zest for life exportable? These and other questions give way to a dynamic sketch of French life today.Peppered with anecdotes and hu
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Using Questions to Think
Book SynopsisOur ability to think, argue and reason is determined by our ability to question. Questions are a vital component of critical thinking, yet we underestimate the role they play. Using Questions to Think puts questioning back in the spotlight.Naming the parts of questions at the same time as we name parts of thought, this one-of-a-kind introduction allows us to see how questions relate to the definitions of propositions, premises, conclusions, and the validity of arguments. Why is this important? Making the role of questions visible in thinking reasoning and dialogue, allows us to:- Ask better questions- Improve our capability to understand an argument - Exercise vigilance in the act of questioning- Make explicit what you already know implicitly- Engage with ideas that contradict our own- See ideas in broader contextBreathing new life into our current approach to critical thinking, this practical, much-needed textbook moves us away from the traditional focus on formal argument and Trade ReviewDrawing on hermeneutic phenomenology, Dickman focuses inquiry on the necessity of genuine questioning for understanding and sense. Elegantly organized and including a helpful appendix for instructors, this insightful text offers a fresh approach and will be a welcome addition to courses in critical thinking, philosophy of language, and more. * Robert H. Scott, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of North Georgia, USA *Drawing on phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of language, this text explores both the technical and existential dimensions of reasoning. Through challenging yet inviting prose, Dickman offers a welcome and innovative approach to critical thinking that brings students along on an authentic philosophical journey into the nature of questioning. * Rebecca Scott, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harper College, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: An Age of Answers Part I: Make Questions Explicit for Thinking 1. Thinking Only Happens in Complete Thoughts 2. What Do Questions Do to Complete Thoughts? 3. A Logic of Question-and-Answer Part II: Make Questions Explicit for Reasoning 4. Reasoning Only Happens in Explicit Arguments 5. What Do Questions Do to Arguments? 6. A Rationality of Questioning-and-Reasoning Part III: Make Questions Explicit in Dialogue 7. Dialogue Only Happens in Constructive Reconciliations 8. What Do Questions Do to Dialogues? 9. A Dialectic of Questionability-and-Responsibility Conclusion: The End(s) of Questions Appendix for Instructors Glossary Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Matter of the Mind
Book SynopsisThe Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction. Written by leading philosophers in the field Discusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences and reviews and weighs the evidence in favour of reductionism against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences Collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behaviour, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition. Trade Review“The Matter of the Mind is a well organized book which hosts contributions on the main subjects about philosophy of mind and it is definitely worthwhile reading.” (Metapsychology, 14 May 2013) "The editors, and the contributors, are to be congratulated. This is the best collection on the nature of intertheoretic reduction ever published, especially as those issues bear on the unfolding relations between the neurosciences on the one hand, and psychology and the social sciences on the other. Thanks to these papers, all of us (yours truly included) are going to be rethinking our views on reduction." Paul M. Churchland, University of California, San Diego "Parties on both sides of the reductionism wars will benefit from this exciting collection. The editors and their contributors well represent the cutting edges of the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science regarding the reducibility (or lack thereof) of minds to brains." Pete Mandik, William Paterson University “An outstanding vehicle by which to learn about modern reductionism, the relation of neuroscience to psychology, and how they can cooperate rather than compete.” PsycCritiquesTable of ContentsContributors. Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism (Maurice Schouten and Huib Looren de Jong). Part I: Metaphysics of Science. 2. Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not Foes (Andrew Melnyk). 3. Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism (Thomas W. Polger). 4. The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New Reductionism (Carl Gillett). 5. Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology (Lawrence A. Shapiro). Part II: Philosophical Accounts of Reduction, Mechanism, Co-evolution. 6. Reduction without the Structures (Robert C. Richardson). 7. Reinforcing the Three "R"s: Reduction, Reception, and Replacement (Ronald Endicott). 8. Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations (William Bechtel). 9. Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theories (Robert N. McCauley). Part III: Mechanisms of Mind. 10. Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation (Andy Clark). 11. Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? (Cory D. Wright). 12. Who Says You Can't Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness? (John Bickle). 13. Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction (Huib Looren de Jong and Maurice Schouten). Name Index. Subject Index.
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Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster The Socrates Express In Search of Life Lessons
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Broadview Press Ltd Self-Knowledge: Beginning Philosophy Right Here
Book SynopsisSelf-Knowledge introduces philosophical ideas about knowledge and the self. The book takes the form of a personal meditation: it is one person’s attempt to reflect philosophically upon vital aspects of his existence. It shows how profound philosophy can swiftly emerge from intense private reflection upon the details of one’s life and, thus, will help the reader take the first steps toward philosophical self-understanding. Along the way, readers will encounter moments of puzzlement, then clarity, followed by more perplexity and further insights, and then—finally—some philosophical peace of mind.Trade Review“Hetherington’s little book is an amazing combination of sophistication and innocence. The format is Cartesian and the basic intuitions are about the search for self-understanding, but by means of a clever focus the conclusions are fallibilist and body-oriented. Readers should react vociferously to this appealing and direct tour of many philosophical problems, more closely argued than the relaxed style suggests. It has the distinction of doing justice to the disturbing quality of philosophical questions without blather or pretension.” — Adam Morton, Canada Research Chair in Epistemology and Decision Theory, University of Alberta“Stephen Hetherington’s Self-Knowledge is a unique and fascinating introduction to philosophy. It manages to combine a lucid, unpretentious style with a genuinely insightful treatment of some of the deepest and most baffling problems of philosophy. What sets it apart from so many introductions is the way it engages with readers in a fresh and direct way to use philosophical reasoning to think about their own lives. An exceptional book.” — Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsWhy?Learning with this BookKnowing One’s Physical Nature “I’ve just gotta be me” My left hand Other body parts Hidden body parts A methodological moment: being philosophical Mirrors My skin Family photographs My brain A motivational moment Overview of the dayFurther Reading Knowing One’s Mental Nature “The real me, the inner me” A non-physical me? Another methodological moment: introspection Listening to one’s mind Discovering myself? Creating myself? Partial people? An underlying self? Whose thoughts are these? A persisting self? An unchanging inner self? Memories A valuable inner self? Intelligence Moral worth Personal values Inner character Free will A pause Overview of the dayFurther Reading What Kind of Thing Would Self-Knowledge Be? Some pessimism about knowing what self-knowledge is Some optimism about knowing what self-knowledge is Self-knowledge and other knowledge Floating minds Deeply unique self-knowledge Mere opinion Self-confidence Accurate confidence Luck Normal circumstances Reliability Good evidence Agreeing with other people Unusual knowledge Self-knowledge Where to next? Overview of the dayFurther Reading How Might Self-Knowledge Be Gained? Methods? Which methods? Intuition Dreams Literature and movies Actions Psychological and medical studies Friends and family Experience and maturity Back to basics Tomorrow, into battle Overview of the dayFurther Reading Confronting Doubts about Whether Self-Knowledge is Possible Doubts, more doubts Sensing and observing Reasoning and memory Complexity Meaning Inductive reasoning Test case: love Self-deception Self-involvement? Self-detachment? Dreaming and the senses Knowing something fallibly Usual knowledge Infallibility Two pictures of fallibility Living fallibly “That’s life” Philosophical progress Overview of the dayFurther Reading A Possible Philosophy Course
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Shambhala Publications Inc A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for
Book SynopsisA concise, comprehensive overview of the “M Theory” and its application in today’s world, by a renowned American philosopher Ken Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of our time, but his work has seemed inaccessible to readers who lack a background in consciousness studies or evolutionary theory—until now. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, non-technical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit. He then demonstrates how these theories and models can be applied to real world problems and incorporated into readers’ everyday lives. Wilber begins his study by presenting models like “spiral dynamics”—a leading model of human evolution—and his groundbreaking “all-level, all-quadrant” model for integrating science and religion, showing how they are being applied to politics, medicine, business, education, and the environment. He also covers broader models, explaining how they can integrate the various worldviews that have been developed around the world throughout the ages. Finally, Wilber proposes that readers take up an integral transformative practice—such as meditation—to help them apply and develop this integral vision in their personal, daily lives. A fascinating and easy-to-follow exploration of the “M Theory,” this book is another tour-de-force from one of America’s most inventive minds.
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