Mind Body category: 7783 books

What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and...

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be...

Dips into man’s soul and mind, showing that what each of us seeks actually is inside us. The collection of stories and essays takes readers on a trip that: * Presents life as irony through very common situations. * Shows our mettle in a world where man sometimes sails against the tides. *...

This book is going to be very different from the other ones that I have written. Most of my books are about how to use magick to change various aspects of your life. This one is going to be different, this one is going to discuss the inner thinking all magickians should cultivate. We will learn what...

The mind is directed upon the world. There are worldly things that we have beliefs about and things in the world we desire to have happen. We find some things fearsome and others likable. The puzzle of intentionality — how it is that our minds make contact with the world — is one of the oldest...

Supernatural Thesis describes elements of the supernatural world and is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge and information of, sometimes considered, unexplained phenomena. Herein, I present what some ancient philosophers looked at as supernatural beings and the influence they had in Western beliefs...

An important collection of studies providing a fresh and original perspective on the nature of mind, including thoughtful and detailed arguments that explain why the prevailing paradigm - the computational conception of language and mentality - can no longer be sustained. An alternative approach is...

You don’t have to spend all of your time on the Yoga mat to find freedom through Yoga. How can you find enlightenment? Especially in modern times with the mental stimulation your mind deals with every day?  Sarasvati explores the ancient wisdom from Patanjali’s ‘Yoga Sutras’ as applied...

This book is an edited collection of papers from international experts in philosophy and psychology concerned with time. The collection aims to bridge the gap between these disciplines by focussing on five key themes and providing philosophical and psychological perspectives on each theme. The...

Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world. The correct response to the problem, Stoljar argues, is not to posit a realm of experience distinct...

Consciousness is a hugely important brain phenomenon, but until now it has been a very poorly understood one in conceptual terms. However, a major breakthrough in our conceptual understanding has been made, and a radical new school of philosophical thought on the subject has arisen; and what we are...

We are taught that external conditions or people are to blame for our illnesses and pain. While other people and situations can affect the quality of your energy field---it is within your power to train your mind and emotions, and adapt your inner feelings, to let go of whatever is hurting you. Essentially,...

This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful.  In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the nature of mental causation relate to debates...

ETH follows a young child's growth with the changes to her world from before going to pre-school, then primary school, then higher school onto university and the events which shape and control her unending descent into the quagmire of the mentality of the human brain's ability to make things seem so...