Mind category: 7783 books
The Consciousness Paradox
Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
A defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness.
Consciousness is arguably the most important area within contemporary philosophy of mind and perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the world....
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crystals
Find Out What Crystals Can Do for You
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Healing energy from nature.
In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Crystals, readers come to know crystals from their chemical composition and historic connections to the ways in which selecting, preparing, and using them can empower and enhance their lives when they're used in physical, emotional,...
by Michael Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
THE HEALING ENERGY OF YOUR HANDS demystifies the art of healing. Beginning with a basic explanation of the nature of healing energy, illness, and the role of the mind in the healing process, Bradford offers techniques so simple that anyone, even a child, can work with healing energy. The author's...
Soul Whispering
The Art of Awakening Shamanic Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Restore your relationship with your soul, break through patterns of dysfunction, and learn to hear the intuitive wisdom of your soul’s whisperings
• Explores shamanic tools, modern psychotherapy techniques, and ancient indigenous practices, such as the Native American medicine wheel
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Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs
How Peircean Semiotics Combines Phenomenal Qualia and Practical Effects
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
It is often thought that consciousness has a qualitative dimension that cannot be tracked by science. Recently, however, some philosophers have argued that this worry stems not from an elusive feature of the mind, but from the special nature of the concepts used to describe conscious states. Marc...
The Conscious Brain
How Attention Engenders Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experience. Prinz's account of consciousness makes two main claims:...
Becoming Human
The Ontogenesis, Metaphysics, and Expression of Human Emotionality
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
A novel, wide-ranging, and comprehensive account of how human emotionality develops, proposing a process in which “nature” and “nurture” are integrated.
In Becoming Human, Jennifer Greenwood proposes a novel theory of the development of human emotionality. In doing so, she makes important...
Evolving Enactivism
Basic Minds Meet Content
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition.
Evolving Enactivism argues that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—can be...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This volume explores the essential issues involved in bringing phenomenology together with the cognitive sciences, and provides some examples of research located at the intersection of these disciplines. The topics addressed here cover a lot of ground, including questions about naturalizing phenomenology,...
by Susanna Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be assessed for rationality or justification. Susanna Siegel argues that this conception is wrong. Drawing on examples involving...
Edmond’S Visionary Path
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Edmonds Visionary Path is a book showing my life through visions that includes my past, present, and future. This book shows visions reaching into the lives of everyone on earth, and how they will influence changes in our lives if we do not make changes first. It gives us advance notice concerning...
by Lauri Järvilehto
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
This book focuses on the very nature and function of intuitive thought. It presents an up-to-date scientific model on how the non-conscious and intuitive thought processes work in human beings. The model is based on mainstream theorizing on intuition, as well as qualitative meta-analysis of the empirical...
Fixing Language
An Essay on Conceptual Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Herman Cappelen investigates ways in which language (and other representational devices) can be defective, and how they can be improved. In all parts of philosophy there are philosophers who criticize the concepts we have and propose ways to improve them. Once one notices this about philosophy, it's...
by E. Rae Harcum
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This book combats the anti-religious sentiment of some psychologists. It argues that Christians do not have to give up their religious faith to keep the contributions of science. A science compatible with religion accepts that human beings have freedom of will to select behaviors and that all methods...