Mind category: 7783 books
Tan Tien Chi Kung
Foundational Exercises for Empty Force and Perineum Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
A fundamental Taoist practice for enhancing and utilizing chi
• Includes breathing and movement exercises to promote vitality and healing through the cultivation of chi in the tan tien and perineum areas
• Presents the foundational exercises that are essential for more advanced practices...
Living in the Tao
The Effortless Path of Self-Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Taoist techniques that can quiet your mind so you can discover your true self in the wisdom of the heart
• Teaches that the Tao is the flow of nature, the effortless middle path of self-discovery
• Shows how to quiet the monkey mind (the ego) and listen within for your inner voice
•...
Soul Mind Body Science System
Grand Unification Theory and Practice for Healing, Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
What is a soul? Are miracles real? When the soul is healed, how does the body respond? Throughout history, there have been countless cases of miracle” healings, unexplainable by modern science. Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha has personally healed thousands of patients, usually in front of dozens of...
Knowing How
Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Knowledge how to do things is a pervasive and central element of everyday life. Yet it raises many difficult questions that must be answered by philosophers and cognitive scientists aspiring to understand human cognition and agency. What is the connection between knowing how and knowing that? Is knowledge...
The Embodied Mind
Cognitive Science and Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.
This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered...
by Jakob Hohwy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. It is an attractive theory because powerful theoretical arguments...
Mind, Method, and Morality
Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Sir Anthony Kenny is one of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of our time. In the wide range and historical breadth of his interests, he has influenced many parts of the philosophical landscape, especially in the philosophy of mind and the theory of human action and responsibility....
by C. B. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical. C. B....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Featuring thirteen specially commissioned chapters on core subjects, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Mind is an essential tool for all those studying and working in the field, purpose-built for use on courses in this area of philosophy.
Beginning with 'How to Use this Book' the Companion...
Natural Philosophy
From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty (Treatise on Mind and Society)
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice, meaning, and the arts. Natural Philosophy brings new methods for analyzing concepts, understanding values, and achieving coherence. It shows how to unify the...
Art, Mind, and Narrative
Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and Art, Value, and Ontology. Within...
by James V. Wertsch
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1998
Contemporary social problems typically involve many complex, interrelated dimensions--psychological, cultural, and institutional, among others. But today, the social sciences have fragmented into isolated disciplines lacking a common language, and analyses of social problems have polarized into approaches...
by Paul M. Churchland
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.
In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind...
by Bence Nanay
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
What mediates between sensory input and motor output? This is probably the most basic question one can ask about the mind. There is stimulation on your retina, something happens in your skull and then you hand reaches out to grab the apple in front of you. What is it that happens in between? What...