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Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics (Hardcover): Hwa Yol Jung Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics (Hardcover)
Hwa Yol Jung
R2,856 Discovery Miles 28 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics introduces the importance of body politics from both Eastern and Western perspectives. Hwa Yol Jung begins with Giambattista Vico's anti-Cartesianism as the birth of the discipline. He then explores the homecoming of Greek mousike (performing arts), which included oral poetry, dance, drama, and music; Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogical body politics; the making of body politics in Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Luce Irigaray; Marshall McLuhan's transversal and embodied philosophy of communication; and transversal geophilosophy. This tour de force will be an engaging read for anyone interested in the above thinkers, as well as for students and scholars of comparative philosophy, communication theory, environmental philosophy, political philosophy, or continental philosophy

Neural Mechanisms - New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Fabrizio Calzavarini, Marco... Neural Mechanisms - New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Fabrizio Calzavarini, Marco Viola
R3,704 Discovery Miles 37 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. The different perspectives presented in each chapter have previously been discussed between the authors, as the volume builds on the experience of Neural Mechanisms (NM) Online - webinar series on the philosophy of neuroscience organized by the editors of this volume. The contributed chapters pertain to five core areas in current philosophy of neuroscience. It surveys the novel forms of explanation (and prediction) developed in cognitive neuroscience, and looks at new concepts, methods and techniques used in the field. The book also highlights the metaphysical challenges raised by recent neuroscience and demonstrates the relation between neuroscience and mechanistic philosophy. Finally, the book dives into the issue of neural computations and representations. Assembling contributions from leading philosophers of neuroscience, this work draws upon the expertise of both established scholars and promising early career researchers.

Habits - Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory (Hardcover): Fausto Caruana, Italo Testa Habits - Pragmatist Approaches from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Social Theory (Hardcover)
Fausto Caruana, Italo Testa
R3,419 Discovery Miles 34 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book evaluates the potential of the pragmatist notion of habit possesses to influence current debates at the crossroads between philosophy, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and social theory. It deals with the different aspects of the pragmatic turn involved in 4E cognitive science and traces back the roots of such a pragmatic turn to both classical and contemporary pragmatism. Written by renowned philosophers, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, and social theorists, this volume fills the need for an interdisciplinary account of the role of 'habit'. Researchers interested in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, social theory, and social ontology will need this book to fully understand the pragmatist turn in current research on mind, action and society.

Congenital Alterable Transmissible Asymmetry - The Spiritual Meaning of Disease and Science (Hardcover): Morris Hyman Congenital Alterable Transmissible Asymmetry - The Spiritual Meaning of Disease and Science (Hardcover)
Morris Hyman
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Thought Power - Its Control & Culture. (Hardcover): Annie Besant Thought Power - Its Control & Culture. (Hardcover)
Annie Besant
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Psychology of Meaning in Life (Hardcover): Tatjana Schnell The Psychology of Meaning in Life (Hardcover)
Tatjana Schnell
R4,484 Discovery Miles 44 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers an inspiring exploration of current findings from the psychology of meaning in life, analysing cutting-edge research to propose practical, evidence-based applications. Schnell draws on psychological, philosophical and cognitive perspectives to explore basic concepts of meaning and introduce a multidimensional model of meaning in life. Written in an accessible style, this book covers a range of topics including the distinction between meaning and happiness, the impact of meaning on health and longevity, meaning in the workplace, and meaning-centred interventions. Each chapter ends with exercises to encourage self-reflection and measurement tools are presented throughout, including the author's original Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire (SoMe), to inspire the reader to consider the role of meaning in their own life. The Psychology of Meaning in Life is essential reading for students and practitioners of psychology, sociology, counselling, coaching and related disciplines, and for general readers interested in exploring the role of meaning in life.

Meditations (Paperback): Marcus Aurelius Meditations (Paperback)
Marcus Aurelius
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Quotes to Motivate & Inspire - 28 Motivational & Inspirational Quotes for Your Daily Meditation (Paperback): T. Patrick Sullivan Quotes to Motivate & Inspire - 28 Motivational & Inspirational Quotes for Your Daily Meditation (Paperback)
T. Patrick Sullivan
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Continuum Companion to Philosophy of Mind (Hardcover): James Garvey The Continuum Companion to Philosophy of Mind (Hardcover)
James Garvey
R6,830 Discovery Miles 68 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a comprehensive reference guide to current research in Philosophy of Mind, assembled by an international team of leading scholars in the discipline. From new questions concerning qualia, representation, embodiment and cognition to fresh thinking about the long-standing problems of physicalism, dualism, personal identity and mental causation, this book is an authoritative guide to the latest research in the Philosophy of Mind. Across twelve entries, experts in the field explore the current thinking in one of the most active areas of interest in philosophy today. To aid researchers further, the Companion also includes overviews of perennial problems and new directions in contemporary philosophy of mind, an extended glossary of terms for quick reference, a detailed chronology, a guide to research for ongoing study and a comprehensive bibliography of key classic and contemporary publications in the philosophy of mind. "The Continuum Companions" series is a major series of single volume companions to key research fields in the humanities aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and libraries. Each companion offers a comprehensive reference resource giving an overview of key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field. A distinctive feature of the series is that each companion provides practical guidance on advanced study and research in the field, including research methods and subject-specific resources.

How to Declutter Your Mind - Secrets to Stop Overthinking, Relieve Anxiety, and Achieve Calmness and Inner Peace (Mindfulness... How to Declutter Your Mind - Secrets to Stop Overthinking, Relieve Anxiety, and Achieve Calmness and Inner Peace (Mindfulness and Minimalism) (Hardcover)
Amy White, James W Williams
R708 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R82 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philadelphia a Story Sequence in Verse (Hardcover): John Craig Philadelphia a Story Sequence in Verse (Hardcover)
John Craig
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Philadelphia A Story Sequence in Verse" is a window on the work of esoteric schools. It portrays a small, representative group of loving friends who at first naively and later decisively with the potent ancient knowledge in which they have been instructed engage in storytelling's highest purpose: to remind and remind and remind us again to remember and hold ourselves aware of what our busy minds are always forgetting - the present, where the divine resides. John Craig, the author, is a poet and teacher who with his wife Victoria,a native of Phila-delphia,lives in the Sierra foothills of northern California. They have two grown sons.

Body Matters - A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness (Hardcover): James Aho, Kevin Aho Body Matters - A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness (Hardcover)
James Aho, Kevin Aho
R2,877 R2,581 Discovery Miles 25 810 Save R296 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Following the core principle of phenomenology as a return "to the things themselves," Body Matters attends to the phenomena of bodily afflictions and examines them from three different standpoints: from society in general that interprets them as "sicknesses," from the medical professions that interpret them as "diseases," and from the patients themselves who interpret them as "illnesses." By drawing on a crucial distinction in German phenomenology between two senses of the body the quantifiable, material body (Korper) and the lived-body(Leib) the authors explore the ways in which sickness, disease, and illness are socially and historically experienced and constructed. To make their case, they draw on examples from a multiplicity of disciplines and cultures as well as a number of cases from Euro-American history. The intent is to unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions that readers may have about body troubles. These are assumptions widely held as well by medical and allied health professionals, in addition to many sociologists and philosophers of health and illness. To this end, Body Matters does not simply deconstruct prejudices of mainstream biomedicine; it also constructively envisions more humane and artful forms of therapy."

Resemblance and Representation - An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Ben Blumson Resemblance and Representation - An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Ben Blumson
R1,249 R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Save R111 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Adam Tamas... The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Adam Tamas Tuboly
R3,405 Discovery Miles 34 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive volume on A. J. Ayer's 1936 masterpiece, Language, Truth and Logic. With eleven original chapters the volume reconsiders the historical and philosophical significance of Ayer's work, examining its place in the history of analytic philosophy and its subsequent legacy. Making use of pioneering research in logical empiricism, the contributors explore a wide variety of topics, from ethics, values and religion, to truth, epistemology and philosophy of language. Among the questions discussed are: How did Ayer preserve or distort the views and conceptions of logical empiricists? How are Ayer's arguments different from the ones he aimed at reconstructing? And which aspects of the book were responsible for its immense impact? The volume expertly places Language, Truth and Logic in the intellectual and socio-cultural history of twentieth-century philosophical thought, providing both introductory and contextual chapters, as well as specific explorations of a variety of topics covering the main themes of the book. Providing important insights of both historical and contemporary significance, this collection is an essential resource for scholars interested in the legacy of the Vienna Circle and its effect on ethics and philosophy of mind.

Corpus Anima - Reflections from the Unity of Body and Soul (Hardcover): Cedrus Monte Corpus Anima - Reflections from the Unity of Body and Soul (Hardcover)
Cedrus Monte
R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
4E Cognitive Science and Wittgenstein (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Victor Loughlin 4E Cognitive Science and Wittgenstein (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Victor Loughlin
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book demonstrates for the first time how the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein can transform 4E Cognitive Science. In particular, it shows how insights from Wittgenstein can empower those within 4E to reject the long held view that our minds must involve representations inside our heads. The book begins by showing how proponents of 4E are divided amongst themselves. Proponents of Extended Mind insist that internal representations are always needed to explain the human mind. However, proponents of Enacted Mind reject this claim. Using insights from Ludwig Wittgenstein, the book introduces and defends a new theoretical framework called Structural Enacted or Extended Mind (STEEM). STEEM brings together Enacted Mind and Extended Mind in a way that rejects all talk of internal representations. STEEM thus highlights the anti-representationalist credentials of 4E and so demonstrates how 4E can herald a new beginning when it comes to thinking about the mind.

The Profound Limitations of Knowledge (Paperback, New edition): Fred Leavitt The Profound Limitations of Knowledge (Paperback, New edition)
Fred Leavitt
R1,154 R1,081 Discovery Miles 10 810 Save R73 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Profound Limitations of Knowledge explores the limitations of knowledge and argues that neither reasoning nor direct or indirect observations can be trusted. We cannot even assign probabilities to claims of what we can know. Furthermore, for any set of data, there are an infinite number of possible interpretations. Evidence suggests that we live in a participatory universe-that is, our observations shape reality.

Tao Te Ching (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Lao Tzu; Translated by James Legge
R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Symphony #1 in a Minor Key - A Meditation on Time and Place (Hardcover): Alan A. Block Symphony #1 in a Minor Key - A Meditation on Time and Place (Hardcover)
Alan A. Block
R672 R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When instruments are harmoniously joined together, beautiful music ensues. Just as in a classic symphony, life often occurs in phases, or movements. In his creative comparison Symphony #1 in a Minor Key, literary exegete Alan Block shares his philosophies on four movements reflected in his own life, each loosely modeled on a different musical form linked to the emotions of a life both fully lived and joyously celebrated. In the first movement, "Sonata Allegro," Block juxtaposes biblical stories with personal experiences as he explores the contradictory nature of what it means to leave home in search of another home. In the second movement, representing a slow march to and from the grave, he focuses his examination on the funerals of three very different people from a Jewish perspective. In strong contrast, Block presents a glimpse into his absurd daily world in the third movement, punctuated by jokes and commentary. Finally, he shares a celebration of life and hope inspired by the final movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, encouraging others to be open to the sublime and realize that none of our worlds is perfect. Symphony #1 in a Minor Key shares one man's reflections as he offers a fascinating meditation on life, death, and everything in between.

Logic, Syntax, and a Structural View - The Psychology of Trump's Hall of Mirrors (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Harwood Fisher Logic, Syntax, and a Structural View - The Psychology of Trump's Hall of Mirrors (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Harwood Fisher
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a new structural approach to the psychology of the person, inspired by Kenneth Colby's computer-generated simulation, PARRY. The simulation was of a paranoid psychological state, represented in forms of the person's logic and syntax, as these would be evidenced in personal communication. Harwood Fisher uses a Structural View to highlight similarities in the logical form of the linguistic representations of Donald Trump, his avid followers ("Trumpers"), and the paranoid-referred to as "The Trio." He demonstrates how the Structural View forms a series of logical and schematic patterns, similar to the way that content analysis can bring forth associations meanings, and concepts held in the text. Such comparisons, Fisher argues, can be used to shed light on contingencies for presenting, representing, and judging truth. Specifically, Fisher posits that the major syntactic and logical patterns that were used to produce the computer-generated "paranoid" responses in Colby's project can be used to analyze Donald Trump's rhetoric and his followers' reactions to it. Ultimately, Fisher offers a new kind of structural approach for the philosophy of psychology. This novel work will appeal to students and scholars of social and cognitive psychology, psychology of personality, psychiatric classification, psycholinguistics, rhetoric, and computer science.

Emotions in Technology Design: From Experience to Ethics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Rebekah Rousi, Jaana Leikas, Pertti... Emotions in Technology Design: From Experience to Ethics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Rebekah Rousi, Jaana Leikas, Pertti Saariluoma
R4,107 Discovery Miles 41 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Understanding emotions is becoming ever more valuable in design, both in terms of what people prefer as well as in relation to how they behave in relation to it. Approaches to conceptualising emotions in technology design, how emotions can be operationalised and how they can be measured are paramount to ascertaining the core principles of design. Emotions in Technology Design: From Experience to Ethics provides a multi-dimensional approach to studying, designing and comprehending emotions in design. It presents emotions as understood through basic human-technology research, applied design practice, culture and aesthetics, ethical approaches to emotional design, and ethics as a cultural framework for emotions in design experience. Core elements running through the book are: cognitive science - cognitive-affective theories of emotions (i.e., Appraisal); culture - the ways in which our minds are trained to recognise, respond to and influence design; and ethics - a deep cultural framework of interpretations of good versus evil. This ethical understanding brings culture and cognition together to form genuine emotional experience. This book is essential reading for designers, technology developers, HCI and cognitive science scholars, educators and students (at both undergraduate and graduate levels) in terms of emotional design methods and tools, systematic measurement of emotion in design experience, cultural theory underpinning how emotions operate in the production and interaction of design, and how ethics influence basic (primal) and higher level emotional reactions. The broader scope equips design practitioners, developers and scholars with that 'something more' in terms of understanding how emotional experience of technology can be positioned in relation to cultural discourse and ethics.

The Twenty-First Century Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition - A Critical Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Diego Azevedo... The Twenty-First Century Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition - A Critical Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Diego Azevedo Leite
R4,578 Discovery Miles 45 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents a theoretical critical appraisal of the Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition (MTHC), which is one of the most popular major theories in the contemporary field of cognitive science. It analyses and evaluates whether MTHC provides a unifying account of human cognition and its explanation. The book presents a systematic investigation of the internal and external consistency of the theory, as well as a systematic comparison with other contemporary major theories in the field. In this sense, it provides a fresh look at more recent major theoretical debates in this area of scientific research and a rigorous analysis of one of its most central major theories. Rigorous theoretical work is integrated with objective consideration of relevant empirical evidence, making the discussions robust and clear. As a result, the book shows that MTHC provides a significant theoretical contribution for the field of cognitive science. The content is useful for those interested in theoretical and empirical issues concerning major theories in the contemporary field of cognitive science.

The Body and Shame - Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body (Hardcover): Luna Dolezal The Body and Shame - Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body (Hardcover)
Luna Dolezal
R2,744 Discovery Miles 27 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accounts of embodied subjectivity. Body shame only finds its full articulation in the presence (actual or imagined) of others within a rule and norm governed milieu. As such, it bridges our personal, individual and embodied experience with the social, cultural and political world that contains us. Luna Dolezal argues that understanding body shame can shed light on how the social is embodied, that is, how the body-experienced in its phenomenological primacy by the subject-becomes a social and cultural artifact, shaped by external forces and demands. The Body and Shame introduces leading twentieth-century phenomenological and sociological accounts of embodied subjectivity through the work of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias. Dolezal examines the embodied, social and political features of body shame. contending that body shame is both a necessary and constitutive part of embodied subjectivity while simultaneously a potential site of oppression and marginalization. Exploring the cultural politics of shame, the final chapters of this work explore the phenomenology of self-presentation and a feminist analysis of shame and gender, with a critical focus on the practice of cosmetic surgery, a site where the body is literally shaped by shame. The Body and Shame will be of great interest to scholars and students in a wide variety of fields, including philosophy, phenomenology, feminist theory, women's studies, social theory, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, and medical humanities.

Emotions as Original Existences - A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Demian Whiting Emotions as Original Existences - A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Demian Whiting
R3,124 Discovery Miles 31 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as 'original existences': feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own. In doing so, the book serves as a valuable counterbalance to the now mainstream view that emotions are representational mental states. Beginning with a defence of a feeling theory of emotion, Whiting opens up a whole new way of thinking about the role and centrality of emotion in our lives, showing how emotion is key to a proper understanding of human motivation and the self. Whiting establishes that emotions as types of bodily feelings serve as the categorical bases for our behavioural dispositions, including those associated with moral thought, virtue, and vice. The book concludes by advancing the idea that emotions make up our intrinsic nature - the characterisation of what we are like in and of ourselves, when considered apart from how we are disposed to behave. The conclusion additionally draws out the implications of the claims made throughout the book in relation to our understanding of mental illness and the treatment of emotional disorders.

Nietzsche as Egoist and Mystic (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Andrew Milne Nietzsche as Egoist and Mystic (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Andrew Milne
R3,334 Discovery Miles 33 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an attempt to make sense of the tension in Nietzsche's work between the unashamedly egocentric and the apparently mystical. While scholars have tended to downplay one or other of these aspects, it is the author's contention that the two are not only compatible but mutually illuminating. This book demonstrates Nietzsche's sustained interest in mysticism from the time of The Birth of Tragedy right through to the end of his productive life. This book argues against situating Nietzsche's religious thought in the context of Buddhist or Christian mystical traditions, demonstrating the inadequacy of attempts to mediate between Nietzsche and Meister Eckhart and the Bodhisattva ideal of Mahayana Buddhism. Rather, it is argued that Nietzsche's egoism and mysticism are best understood in the intellectual context which he himself avowed, according to which his "ancestors" were Heraclitus, Empedocles, Spinoza, and Goethe.

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