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Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel - A Comparative Study in Christian Existentialism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): C.A. Longhurst Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel - A Comparative Study in Christian Existentialism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
C.A. Longhurst
R3,497 Discovery Miles 34 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book seeks to examine the mutual interplay between existentialism and Christian belief as seen through the work of three existentialist thinkers who were also committed Christians - a Spaniard (Miguel de Unamuno), a Russian (Nikolai Berdyaev), and a Frenchman (Gabriel Marcel). They are compared with each other and with leading non-religious existentialists. The major themes studied include reason, freedom, the self, belief, hope, love, suffering, and immortality.

Law of Attraction for Weight Loss - Change Your Relationship with Food, Stop Torturing Yourself with Dieting and Transform Your... Law of Attraction for Weight Loss - Change Your Relationship with Food, Stop Torturing Yourself with Dieting and Transform Your Body with LOA! (Hardcover)
Elena G Rivers
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philosophers on Consciousness - Talking about the Mind (Hardcover): Jack Symes Philosophers on Consciousness - Talking about the Mind (Hardcover)
Jack Symes
R1,621 Discovery Miles 16 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We know, more intimately than anything else, what it's like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existential doubts. But, despite the incredible advances of physical science, it seems that we're no closer to an explanation of how this inner world of experiences comes about. No matter how detailed our description of the physical brain, perhaps we'll always be left with this same question: how and why does the brain produce consciousness? This book is a short, accessible and engaging guide to the mystery of consciousness. Featuring remastered interviews and original essays from the world's leading thinkers, Philosophers on Consciousness sheds new light on the most promising theories in philosophy and science. Beyond understanding the mind, this is a journey into personal identity, the origin of meaning, the nature of morality and the fundamental structure of reality. Contributors include: Miri Albahari, Susan Blackmore, David Chalmers, Patricia Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Keith Frankish, Philip Goff, Frank Jackson, Casey Logue, Gregory Miller, Michelle Montague, Massimo Pigliucci and Galen Strawson.

Law of Attraction for Abundance - How to Change Your Relationship with Money to Manifest the Wealth You Truly Desire... Law of Attraction for Abundance - How to Change Your Relationship with Money to Manifest the Wealth You Truly Desire (Hardcover)
Elena G Rivers
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unlocking the Brain - Volume 2: Consciousness (Hardcover): Georg Northoff Unlocking the Brain - Volume 2: Consciousness (Hardcover)
Georg Northoff
R4,445 Discovery Miles 44 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Neuroscience has made considerable progress in figuring out how the brain works. We know much about the molecular-genetic and biochemical underpinnings of sensory and motor functions. Recent neuroimaging work has opened the door to investigating the neural underpinnings of higher-order cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, and even free will. In these types of investigations, researchers apply specific stimuli to induce neural activity in the brain and look for the function in question. However, there may be more to the brain and its neuronal states than the changes in activity we induce by applying particular external stimuli. In Volume 2 of Unlocking the Brain, Georg Northoff addresses consciousness by hypothesizing about the relationship between particular neuronal mechanisms and the various phenomenal features of consciousness. Northoff puts consciousness in the context of the resting state of the brain thereby delivering a new point of view to the debate that permits very interesting insights into the nature of consciousness. Moreover, he describes and discusses detailed findings from different branches of neuroscience including single cell data, animal data, human imaging data, and psychiatric findings. This yields a unique and novel picture of the brain, and will have a major and lasting impact on neuroscientists working in neuroscience, psychiatry, and related fields.

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind - The Theories of Julian Jaynes (Hardcover): Marcel Kuijsten Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind - The Theories of Julian Jaynes (Hardcover)
Marcel Kuijsten
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unlocking the Brain - Volume 1: Coding (Hardcover): Georg Northoff Unlocking the Brain - Volume 1: Coding (Hardcover)
Georg Northoff
R3,590 Discovery Miles 35 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Neuroscience has made considerable progress in figuring out how the brain works. We know much about the molecular-genetic and biochemical underpinnings of sensory and motor functions, and recent neuroimaging work has opened the door to investigating the neural underpinnings of higher-order cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, and even free will. In these types of investigations, researchers apply specific stimuli to induce neural activity in the brain and look for the function in question. However, there may be more to the brain and its neuronal states than the changes in activity we induce by applying particular external stimuli.
In Volume 1 of Unlocking the Brain, Georg Northoff presents his argument for how the brain must code the relationship between its resting state activity and stimulus-induced activity in order to enable and predispose mental states and consciousness. By presupposing such a basic sense of neural code, the author ventures into different territories and fields of current neuroscience, including a comprehensive exploration of the features of resting state activity as distinguishable from and stimulus-induced activity; sparse coding and predictive coding; and spatial and temporal features of the resting state itself. This yields a unique and novel picture of the brain, and will have a major and lasting impact on neuroscientists working in neuroscience, psychiatry, and related fields.

The Power of Zu - Applying Mardukite Zuism and Systemology to Everyday Life (Hardcover): Joshua Free The Power of Zu - Applying Mardukite Zuism and Systemology to Everyday Life (Hardcover)
Joshua Free; Foreword by Reed Penn
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Self-Reliance (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Logic, Everyday Discourse, and Metaphysics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Gianni Rigamonti Logic, Everyday Discourse, and Metaphysics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Gianni Rigamonti
R2,300 Discovery Miles 23 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse. It offers a new analysis of the notion of individual, suggesting that this notion is linguistic, not ontological, and that anything denoted by a proper name in a well-functioning language game is an individual. It further posits that everyday discourse is non-compositional, i.e., its complex expressions are not just the result of putting simpler ones together but react on the latter, modifying their meaning through feedback. The book theorizes that in everyday discourse, there is no algebra of truth values, but the latter can be both input and output of something which has no truth value at all. It suggests that an elementary proposition of everyday discourse (defined as having exactly one predicate) can, in principle, be indefinitely expanded by adding new components, belonging neither to subject nor to predicate, but remain elementary. This book is of interest to logicians and philosophers of language.

Cognitive Enhancement - Ethical and Policy Implications in International Perspectives (Hardcover): Fabrice Jotterand, Veljko... Cognitive Enhancement - Ethical and Policy Implications in International Perspectives (Hardcover)
Fabrice Jotterand, Veljko Dubljevic
R2,738 Discovery Miles 27 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is a growing literature in neuroethics dealing with cognitive neuro-enhancement for healthy adults. However, discussions on this topic tend to focus on abstract theoretical positions while concrete policy proposals and detailed models are scarce. Furthermore, discussions appear to rely solely on data from the US or UK, while international perspectives are mostly non-existent. This volume fills this gap and addresses issues on cognitive enhancement comprehensively in three important ways: 1) it examines the conceptual implications stemming from competing points of view about the nature and goals of enhancement; 2) it addresses the ethical, social, and legal implications of neuroenhancement from an international and global perspective including contributions from scholars in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America; and 3) it discusses and analyzes concrete legal issues and policy options tailored to specific contexts.

Curiosity - The Mental Hunger of Humans (Hardcover): Bernhard Kutzler Curiosity - The Mental Hunger of Humans (Hardcover)
Bernhard Kutzler
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy (Hardcover): Helen De Cruz, Ryan Nichols Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy (Hardcover)
Helen De Cruz, Ryan Nichols
R4,490 Discovery Miles 44 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language. But there has been very little experimental philosophical research in the domain of philosophy of religion. Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy demonstrates how cognitive science of religion has the methodological and conceptual resources to become a form of experimental philosophy of religion. Addressing a wide variety of empirical claims that are of interest to philosophers and psychologists of religion, a team of psychologists and philosophers apply data from the psychology of religion to important problems in the philosophy of religion including the psychology of religious diversity; the psychology of substance dualism; the problem of evil and the relation between religious belief and empathy; and the cognitive science explaining the formation of intuitions that unwittingly guide philosophers of religion when formulating arguments. Bringing together authors and researchers who have made important contributions to interdisciplinary research on religion in the last decade, Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy provides new ways of approaching core philosophical and psychological problems.

Wisdom in the Telling - Finding Inspiration and Grace in Traditional Folktales and Myths Retold (Hardcover, Annotated edition):... Wisdom in the Telling - Finding Inspiration and Grace in Traditional Folktales and Myths Retold (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi
R477 R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Save R39 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Listen. Hear your deepest longings, triumphs and
trials in these ancient tales of the human experience.

Journey through these fascinating stories and you will see how myths and tales retold from many cultures bring universal themes from love and life, fears and foibles, straight into your heart.

From the learned housekeeper who imparts her wisdom on the importance of listening, to a juggler who shows that gifts from the heart are truly the best of all, these stories offer timeless insight and inspiration. They will allow you to connect with the strength and value of your own myths and tales.

Drawn from many cultures and faith traditions including Irish, Scottish, English, European, Asian, Indian and Middle Eastern each retelling illustrates the healing and powerful connection that stretches across the globe and unites us all in an embrace of wisdom through words. You will see your own struggles and successes mirrored in the lives of the characters contained in these pages: As you travel through their stories, you will hear a gentle voice urging you to tap into your own endless power and potential.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Hardcover): Aurelius Marcus Antoninus Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Hardcover)
Aurelius Marcus Antoninus
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Law of Attraction for Amazing Relationships - How to Drastically Improve Your Love Life and Find Ever-Lasting Happiness with... Law of Attraction for Amazing Relationships - How to Drastically Improve Your Love Life and Find Ever-Lasting Happiness with LOA (Hardcover)
Elena G Rivers
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Analysis of Mind (Hardcover): Bertrand Russell The Analysis of Mind (Hardcover)
Bertrand Russell
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Metanoia - A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain (Hardcover): Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig Metanoia - A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain (Hardcover)
Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig; Introduction by Levi R. Bryant
R4,154 Discovery Miles 41 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme, reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia- meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any impact on the world outside our brains? Innovatively tackling these questions, this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics, literary theory, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It re-articulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic, creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us as well.

The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (Hardcover): Rudolf Steiner The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (Hardcover)
Rudolf Steiner; Translated by R. F. Alfred Hoernle
R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Little Book of Stoicism (Hardcover): St.George Stock A Little Book of Stoicism (Hardcover)
St.George Stock
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Matrix Explained - Why the Information-Bit is the Missing Link between Science and Spirituality (Hardcover): Maxime Drouin The Matrix Explained - Why the Information-Bit is the Missing Link between Science and Spirituality (Hardcover)
Maxime Drouin
R918 Discovery Miles 9 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Agent, Person, Subject, Self - A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure (Hardcover): Paul Kockelman Agent, Person, Subject, Self - A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure (Hardcover)
Paul Kockelman
R3,135 R2,691 Discovery Miles 26 910 Save R444 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers both a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world. It provides a reconstructive rather than deconstructive theory of the individual, one which both analytically separates and theoretically synthesizes a range of faculties that are often confused and conflated: agency (understood as a causal capacity), subjectivity (understood as a representational capacity), selfhood (understood as a reflexive capacity), and personhood (understood as a sociopolitical capacity attendant on being an agent, subject, or self). It argues that these facilities are best understood from a semiotic stance that supersedes the usual intentional stance. And, in so doing, it offers a pragmatism-grounded approach to meaning and mediation that is general enough to account for processes that are as embodied and embedded as they are articulated and enminded. In particular, while this theory is focused on human-specific modes of meaning, it also offers a general theory of meaning, such that the agents, subjects and selves in question need not always, or even usually, map onto persons. And while this theory foregrounds agents, persons, subjects and selves, it does this by theorizing processes that often remain in the background of such (often erroneously) individuated figures: ontologies (akin to culture, but generalized across agentive collectivities), interaction (not only between people, but also between people and things, and anything outside or in-between), and infrastructure (akin to context, but generalized to include mediation at any degree of remove).

Measuring the Immeasurable Mind - Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition (Hardcover): Matthew Owen Measuring the Immeasurable Mind - Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition (Hardcover)
Matthew Owen
R2,355 Discovery Miles 23 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition, Matthew Owen argues that despite its nonphysical character, it is possible to empirically detect and measure consciousness. Toward the end of the previous century, the neuroscience of consciousness set its roots and sprouted within a materialist milieu that reduced the mind to matter. Several decades later, dualism is being dusted off and reconsidered. Although some may see this revival as a threat to consciousness science aimed at measuring the conscious mind, Owen argues that measuring consciousness, along with the medical benefits of such measurements, is not ruled out by consciousness being nonphysical. Owen proposes the Mind-Body Powers model of neural correlates of consciousness, which is informed by Aristotelian causation and a substance dualist view of human nature inspired by Thomas Aquinas, who often followed Aristotle. In addition to explaining why there are neural correlates of consciousness, the model provides a philosophical foundation for empirically discerning and quantifying consciousness. En route to presenting and applying the Mind-Body Powers model to neurobiology, Owen rebuts longstanding objections to dualism related to the mind-body problem. With scholarly precision and readable clarity, Owen applies an oft forgotten yet richly developed historical vantage point to contemporary cognitive neuroscience.

Self-Love Handbook Magnified with Law of Attraction - Instantly Shift into Self-Love, Heal Your Life & Create the Abundance of... Self-Love Handbook Magnified with Law of Attraction - Instantly Shift into Self-Love, Heal Your Life & Create the Abundance of Joy You Deserve (Hardcover)
Elena G Rivers
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dynamical Models In Neurocognitive Psychology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Ralf Engbert Dynamical Models In Neurocognitive Psychology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ralf Engbert
R2,300 Discovery Miles 23 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The development of cognitive models is a key step in the challenging research program to advance our understanding of human cognition and behavior. Dynamical models represent a general and flexible approach to cognitive modeling. This introduction focuses on applications of stochastic processes and dynamical systems to model cognition. The dynamical approach is particularly useful to emphasize the strong link between experimental research (and its paradigms), data analysis, and mathematical models including their computer implementation for numerical simulation. Most of specific examples are from the domain of eye movement research, with concepts being applicable to a broad range of problems in cognitive modeling. The textbook aims at the graduate and/or advanced undergraduate level for students in Cognitive Science and related disciplines such as Psychology and Computer Science. Joint introduction of the theory of cognitive processes and mathematical models, their underlying mathematical concepts, numerical simulation, and analysis; The focus on eye movements provide a theoretically coherent, but very general application area; Computer code in R Programming Language for Statistical Computing is available for all examples, figures, and solutions to exercises.

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