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A Place for Consciousness
Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of information...
Perceptual Illusions
Philosophical and Psychological Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error. This book aims to fill that gap.
Towards a Soulful Sexuality
New perspectives of Sex, Age and Menopause for Women 35 to 60 Plus
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
This book is called Towards a Soulful Sexuality because it is an initial step in the direction of a destination towards which I believe we should journey. This is a renewed consciousness of a feminine sexual holiness firmly grounded in our bodies and our psyches that should apply throughout a women’s...
by Stanley Korn
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
There are two schools of thought regarding the nature of consciousness. There’s physicalism, which provides the philosophical basis of modern science, which holds that consciousness is solely a product of brain activity, and more generally, that mind is an epiphenomenon of matter, that is, derivable...
Gracious Wild
A Shamanic Journey with Hawks
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
*Gracious Wild *is the story of Stacey Couch’s incredible journey out of the mundane world of science and reason into the vast shamanic realms of creativity and inspiration. Readers will travel on this intimate exploration of what happens when one woman allows the messengers of nature to guide...
Agency in Action
The Practical Rational Agency Machine
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical...
Ecstatic Soul Retrieval
Shamanism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
A guide to integrating ecstatic trance, soul retrieval, and psychotherapy to overcome emotional challenges and deepen your connection to all life on Mother Earth
• Describes the methodologies of ecstatic trance and psychotherapy, explaining how they can be integrated in a way that feels familiar...
Springboard
Jump Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
A book is a great source of education and value as it opens up a whole new world in front of the readers.
Individually, this book allows the readers to think and feel differently. It helps them to slip into the depths of life to extract new experiences. Some can taste the book as a step by...
Why Think?
Evolution and the Rational Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is the scope and unique power of rational thinking? In this short but wide-ranging book, philosopher Ronald de Sousa looks at the twin set of issues surrounding the power of natural selection to mimic rational...
Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge
New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for the view that the mind is physical. This volume collects thirteen new papers on this problem by leading philosophers including Torin Alter, Ned Block, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, John Hawthorne, Frank Jackson, Janet Levin,...
by Michael LeBuffe
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
In his work on metaphysics, Spinoza associates reasons with causes or explanations. He contends that there is a reason for whatever exists and whatever does not exist. In his account of the human mind, Spinoza makes reason a peculiarly powerful kind of idea and the only source of our knowledge of...
by Naja Li
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
These few pages share an insight offered to me in the hope that 'humanity move beyond its current state of understanding'. This insight is in the form of a letter from one who died long ago. It is my wish that this insight be received in the spirit its author so clearly intended. Please note that...
Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes
A Return to a Sartrean View
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes: A Return to a Sartrean View, Jason Kido Lopez argues that this departure is a mistake and that we should return to thinking about self-deception in a Sartrean fashion, in which we are self-deceived when we intentionally use the strategies and methods of interpersonal...
Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations
A Theory of Mental Causation
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This work covers, in its subsequent parts, ontology, the metaphysics of causation, and the philosophy of mind. It provides a firm theoretical basis for believing that in our all-physical world mental causation is perfectly real, and that it can be understood.