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Narrative Naturalism
An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Narrative Naturalism: An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind provides an original framework for a non-reductive approach to mind and philosophical psychology. Jessica Wahman challenges the reductive (i.e., mechanistic and physicalist) assumptions that render the mind-body problem intractable,...
The Concept of Mind
60th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
First published in 1949, Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind is one of the classics of twentieth-century philosophy. Described by Ryle as a ‘sustained piece of analytical hatchet-work’ on Cartesian dualism, The Concept of Mind is a radical and controversial attempt to jettison once and for all...
Skillful Coping
Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has addressed an astonishing range of issues in the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, cognitive science, and the philosophical study of mind. Dreyfus has inspired a whole generation of philosophers as he has creatively drawn on and clearly articulated the seminal...
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason
How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain...
Mind Fist
The Asian Art of the Ninja Masters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The author of more than a dozen martial arts books, including Mind Penetration, reveals the secret to releasing the raw, untapped power of the “sleeping tiger” within us all.
Inside every human is a “sleeping tiger”—an extraordinary power that, once harnessed, can repel even the most...
Wisdom Chi Kung
Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Taoist meditation practices for increasing and maintaining mental awareness, memory, and clarity
• Details techniques to increase the level of chi energy in the brain
• Explains how to synchronize the left and right brain by activating the body’s energetic potentials
•...
Irreducible Mind
Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically...
by Ace McCloud
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Have you had it with being tired all the time? Would you do almost anything for a good night's sleep?
Whether you want to (1) feel more energized all day long, (2) know how to easily fall asleep, or (3) know how to get a more restful and better night's sleep, then this is the book for you!
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by Tim Crane
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Aspects of Psychologism is a penetrating look into fundamental philosophical questions of consciousness, perception, and the experience we have of our mental lives. Psychologism, in Tim Crane's formulation, presents the mind as a single subject-matter to be investigated not only empirically and conceptually...
Supersizing the Mind
Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind, Andy Clark argues that our thinking doesn't...
Mind Out of Matter
Topics in the Physical Foundations of Consciousness and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Mind Out of Matter aims to transform the way we think about consciousness and the physical world. Unlike many contemporary volumes, it develops a robust and philosophically satisfying account of the mind/body relationship without doing violence to fundamental physics. It expunges popular but ludicrous...
The Innate Mind
Structure and Contents
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness. The extent to which the mind is innate is one of the central questions in the human sciences, with important implications for many surrounding debates. By bringing together the top nativist scholars in philosophy,...
Giving a Damn
Essays in Dialogue with John Haugeland
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
A collection of essays that use John Haugeland's work on intentionality, embodiment, objectivity, and caring to explore contemporary issues in philosophy of mind.
In his work, the philosopher John Haugeland (1945–2010) proposed a radical expansion of philosophy's conceptual toolkit, calling...
Mind Chatter That Matters
The Ultimate Guide to Your Inner Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Are you tired of feeling stuck, indecisive by endless Mind Chatter? Why do some people succeed, while others do not? There is a depression and mental illness epidemic in the world today due to life's stresses. We all experience negative events in our life and are each affected very differently. Often,...