What is philosophy of mind

What is Philosophy of Mind?

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This Is Philosophy of Mind

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What is Philosophy?

This work examines what it means to be a philosopher and attacks the sterility of modern philosophy. Part One explores the nature and scope of philoso

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What is Analytic Philosophy?

In this wide-ranging textbook, Hans Johann Glock considers the pros and cons of various definitions of analytic philosophy, and tackles the methodolog

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What Is Ancient Philosophy?

Hadot shows how the schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy strove to transform the individualÂ’s mode of perceiving and bein

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What is Philosophy of Religion?

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Philosophy of Mind

Imaginative cases, or what might be called puzzles and other thought experiments, play a central role in philosophy of mind. The real world also furni

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Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide is an introduction to the philosophy of mind. Specifically aimed at students with no background knowledge of th

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Philosophy of Mind

Written by a leading figure in the field, Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction is an invaluable core text for any student coming to philosophy of mind

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Philosophy of Mind

This influential volume contributed to the shift in how philosophy of mind is understood. While previous studies tended to focus exclusively on the mi

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Elective Mind

What is the significance of “higher” education? What is the point of obtaining a degree that includes the study of philosophy? This book argues that

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Philosophy of Mind: The Basics

Philosophy of Mind: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the fundamental philosophical questions and theories about the mind.

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What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky's theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on modern directions in philosophy of

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Tinkering Mind

Epistemic agency is a crucial concept in many areas of philosophy and cognitive sciences. But what is it? The Tinkering Mind argues that epistemic age

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Mind is the Ride

A journey through cycling and philosophy, shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Debut Travel Writer of the Year award

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Mind is the Ride

A journey through cycling and philosophy, shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Debut Travel Writer of the Year award

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What is 'Islamic' Art?

Investigating what is Islamic about Islamic art through analysis of the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufi texts, ancient philosophy, and a rich corpus of transcult

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What Even Is Gender?

A bold and thought-provoking approach to thinking about gender, What Even Is Gender? will be of great interest to those in philosophy, gender studies,

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What Love Is

A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions

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What is Meditation?

Meditation is freeing the mind from the knownIn this inspiring collection of quotations, world renowned spiritual thinker J. Krishnamurti offers an in

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Philosophy of Luxury

What is luxury? Is someone who finds luxury normal experiencing luxury? Luxury has received remarkably little sustained philosophical examination. Thi

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Philosophy of Love

What is love? Is it something that can be measured and explained? If you asked Alice and Luke you'd get vastly different answers...

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Philosophy of Science

The world didn't end on 10 September 2008, but the possibility may have got you thinking: was it worth the risk? What is the point of science actually

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Doing Philosophy

First published in 2012, this title presents the basics of how â€to do’ philosophy - what it is, how we can think, the nature of logic, some sp

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Movements of the Mind

Movements of the Mind addresses the fundamental question of what it is to be an agent. Wayne Wu tackles the phenomenon of mental agency by integrating

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Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All?

Ian Hacking draws on cognitive sciences, evolutionary psychology, neurology, developmental psychology, and cognitive archaeology (tools and the mind)

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Shadows Of The Mind

‘One of the most important works…of the twentieth century’ The TimesShadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tel

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Out of His Mind

In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a

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Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science

This introductory text offers a new approach to the philosophy of social science by focusing on what is involved in knowing others from different cult

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Philosophy of Causality in Economics

What do economists mean when they conclude that A ‘causes’ B? Does ‘cause’ say that we can influence B by intervening on A, or is it only a label

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A Refutation of Positivism in Philosophy of Mind Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter. In particular, it is unfit for linguistics and cognitive science, where it is ultimately self-destructive, since it fails to account for causality, while the mind, the primary object of research of the human sciences, canno...

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Secret Life of the Mind

†Where do our thoughts come from?†How can we manipulate our dreams?†What is the role of the unconscious?†How do we make decisions and

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Philosophy for Teens

What is love? Is lying always wrong? Is beauty a matter of fact, or a matter of taste? What is discrimination?The answers to these questions, and more

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Philosophy and Conceptual Art

Leading philosophers and art theorists engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follow

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Pocket Philosophy: Epictetus' Raven

The Pocket Philosophy series introduces readers of all ages to the biggest names in philosophy. Epictetus is reminding us to focus only on what we can

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Panpsychism – The Philosophy of the Sensuous Cosmos

Are free will and mind chimeras? This book, anti-materialistic but respecting science, answers, 'No! Mind is foundational to all existence.'

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What Even Is Gender? Taylor & Francis Ltd

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called gender that both sides are arguing about. A bold and thought-provoking a...

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What Even Is Gender? Taylor & Francis Ltd

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called gender that both sides are arguing about. A bold and thought-provoking a...

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Philosophy for Beginners

Philosophy is a way of thinking about just about anything. It asks big questions, such as “how can I be good?” or “what makes something beautiful?Â

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Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may

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My Revision Notes: AQA A-level Philosophy Paper 2 Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of mind

Target success in AQA A-level Philosophy with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style

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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol - Warhol Andy

Anotace: The autobiography of an American icon, Andy Warhol`s The Philosophy of Andy Warhol is published in Penguin Modern Classics.`I never think that people die. They just go to department stores`Andy Warhol - American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement - was in many ways a reluctant celebrity. Here, in his autobiography, he s...

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The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan

<p>The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One — and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen F...

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Language, Mind, and Value

This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in WittgensteinÂ’s philosophy, such as linguistic normativity, the concepts of understandin

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Mind-Body Cure

What if someone told you that 75% of disease is caused by continuous and excessive stress hormones released by the body? What if they said you could m

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Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

In this revealing and engrossing book, Michel Eltchaninoff offers answers to an urgent question for our 21st century world: what is Vladimir Putin thi

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What Is Inside a Black Hole? - Stephen William Hawking

<p>'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out' What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. In What Is Inside a Black Hole? Hawking takes us on a journey to the outer reaches of our ima...

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Analysis of Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind

In this provocative 1949 work, Ryle proposes that what we think of as the "mind" is little more than an illusion. Rene Descartes, one of the fathers o

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Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy

Benjamin Pollock argues that Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption is devoted to the task of grasping 'the All' - the whole of what is - in the fo

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Human Psychology 101: Understanding The Human Mind And What Makes People Tick

Understanding the human mind is a complicated array of wirings of the past combined with the physical and chemical inclinations of the present. Psychology is the study of the human brain, but it's so much more than a mere dissection of the gooey gray mass

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On What Matters

This is the first volume of a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of 20th-c

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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (1783782307)

Kniha - autor Julian Baggini, 432 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or le...

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Dune and Philosophy - Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib

Explore the universe of Frank Herbert's Dune in all its philosophical richness"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jes...

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On What Matters

This is a major work in moral philosophy, the long-awaited follow-up to Parfit's 1984 classic Reasons and Persons, a landmark of twentieth-century phi

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Journey To Develop A Strong Mind: Achieve A Strong Mind

True strength of mind comes from a combination of awareness, focus and resiliency. A strong mindset is what allows you to stay focused on your intentions, instead of negative thoughts. It helps you understand that struggle is impermanent and won't stop you

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The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD - neuveden

Anotace: This is the first work to draw on the four hundred years of transition from ancient Greek philosophy to the medieval philosophy of Islam and the West. During this period, philosophy was often written in the form of commentaries on the works of Plato and Aristotle. Many ideas wrongly credited to the Middle Ages derive from these centuries, such as that of impetus...

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Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way - Kieran Setiya

<p>Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice ... Hope?Life is hard - as the past few years have made painfully clear. From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world, sometimes simply going on can feel too much.But could there be solace - and even hope - in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition? Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striv...

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Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher

Ovid is celebrated for his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? T

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Science Meets Philosophy Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book is an attempt to bring together what are often seen as incommensurable scientific and philosophical positions. Taking a historical perspective, the book traces the divides in science back to three main philosophical traditions: realism, idealism, and scepticism. The book is intended for a general audience concerned with today’s debates on scientific knowledge an...

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Dominion : The Making of the Western Mind - Holland Tom

Anotace: `If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland`s book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny` Sunday Times History Book of the YearChristianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient ...

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