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Science, Mind and Art
Essays on science and the humanistic understanding in art, epistemology, religion and ethics In honor of Robert S. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the essays, as well as their originality, and their critical...
In the Shadow of Descartes
Essays in the Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind. But he also thought that the two interact with one another. Is such interaction possible, however, without either a materialist reduction of mind to matter or an idealist (phenomenalist) reduction of matter to mind? These questions overshadow...
by Shaun Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology. There is a growing consensus across these disciplines that the contribution...
Do You Have a Dream Workbook
5 Keys To Realize Your Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Learn how to create courage, confidence, and creativity by Changing the fear in your life into fun!
Do You Have a Dream Workbook 5 Keys to Realize Your Dream will Alter your consciousness in a fun and playful way.
Take charge of your life with, Do You Have a Dream Workbook has powerful...
by Vindimear D Heart
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Live without Jesus
Faith lights up the world with hope burning in every person's core. The salvation most of the human kind strongly believes, that there's a supreme deity, an all knowing, ever understanding individual who knows every secret the universe encloses. The only redemption left when...
The Measure of Madness
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Delusional Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences.
In The Measure of Madness, Philip Gerrans offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists...
Theories of Mind
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Intended for introductory classes focusing on philosophy of mind, Theories of Mind includes readings from primary sources, edited to suit the needs of the beginner. Edited selections focus on vivid examples and counter-examples, and meet the needs of instructors concerned with assigning accessible...
by Robert Francescotti
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
This book addresses a tightly knit cluster of questions in the philosophy of mind. There is the question: Are mental properties identical with physical properties? An affirmative answer would seem to secure the truth of physicalism regarding the mind, i.e., the belief that all mental phenomena obtain...
Consciousness and Meaning
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind — and, in particular, of consciousness, meaning, and intentionality — in a physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades. This volume has two parts:...
On Descartes’ Passive Thought
The Myth of Cartesian Dualism
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
On Descartes’ Passive Thought is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his previous books about Descartes, with a particular focus...
by M. Esfeld
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The Scope of the Project The concept of holism is at the centre of far-reaching changes in various areas of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. Holism in epistemology and the philosophy of mind is widespread among analytic philosophers subsequent to the work of the later Wittgenstein...
by Gian Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Gian Kumar Discusses the Power of Oneness in the last book of his 3 - volume series. He deals with this core reality and the struggle imbedded in living lives of duality in the material and technological world. Happiness unhappiness, good-bad, God-Devil - all exist as 'One'. Despite the teachings of...
Ontology, Modality, and Mind
Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
This book explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E. J. Lowe, whose powerful and influential work was still developing at the time of his death in 2015. During his forty-year career, he established himself as one of the world's leading philosophers,...
Entheogens and the Development of Culture
The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Entheogens and the Development of Culture makes the radical proposition that mind-altering substances have played a major part not only in cultural development but also in human brain development. Researchers suggest that we have purposely enhanced receptor sites in the brain, especially those for...