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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind

Kant, Wittgenstein, and the Performativity of Thought (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Aloisia Moser Kant, Wittgenstein, and the Performativity of Thought (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Aloisia Moser
R2,853 Discovery Miles 28 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the idea that there is a certain performativity of thought connecting Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. On this view, we make judgments and use propositions because we presuppose that our thinking is about something, and that our propositions have sense. Kant's requirement of an a priori connection between intuitions and concepts is akin to Wittgenstein's idea of the general propositional form as sharing a form with the world. Aloisia Moser argues that Kant speaks about acts of the mind, not about static categories. Furthermore, she elucidates the Tractatus' logical form as a projection method that turns into a so-called 'zero method', whereby propositions are merely the scaffolding of the world. In so doing, Moser connects Kantian reflective judgment to Wittgensteinian rule-following. She thereby presents an account of performativity centering neither on theories nor methods, but on the application enacting them in the first place.

Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse - Physics, Philosophy, and Quantum Decision Making (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018):... Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse - Physics, Philosophy, and Quantum Decision Making (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Christian D. Schade
R3,633 Discovery Miles 36 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is hard to interpret quantum mechanics. The most surprising, but also most parsimonious, interpretation is the many-worlds, or quantum-multiverse interpretation, implying a permanent coexistence of parallel realities. Could this perhaps be the appropriate interpretation of quantum mechanics? This book collects evidence for this interpretation, both from physics and from other fields, and proposes a subjectivist version of it, the clustered-minds multiverse. The author explores its implications through the lens of decision making and derives consequences for free will and consciousness. For example, free will can be implemented in the form of vectorial choices, as introduced in the book. He furthermore derives consequences for research in the social sciences, especially in psychology and economics.

Content and Modality - Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker (Hardcover): Judith Thomson, Alex Byrne Content and Modality - Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker (Hardcover)
Judith Thomson, Alex Byrne
R3,526 Discovery Miles 35 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and metaphysics. All these topics are prominent in the work of Robert Stalnaker, a major presence in contemporary philosophy, in honour of whom the volume is published. It also contains a substantial new essay in which Stalnaker replies to his critics, and sets out his current views on the topics discussed. Contributors: Richard Heck, Frank Jackson, William Lycan, Vann McGee, John Perry, Paul Pietroski, Sydney Shoemaker, Scott Soames, Daniel Stoljar, Timothy Williamson, and Stephen Yablo.

The Sailing Mind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Roberto Casati The Sailing Mind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Roberto Casati
R3,617 Discovery Miles 36 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book scrutinizes the practice of sailing and its relation to philosophy of mind. Sailing brings about a peculiar human-artifact interaction which can lead to unexplored research paths. The idea behind this collection is that this interaction is better scrutinized by sailor scientists/philosophers to open up new possible pathways in research. Fascinating theoretical breakthroughs have been provided by observing sailing practices with the most well-known being Hutchins' introduction in cognitive science of the concept of "distributed cognition." However, in times past, sailing has both fueled philosophical metaphors, from Theseus' ship to Plato's image of the intellect as the boatperson of the soul, and inspired philosophers' views (as happened to Herder during a stormy sea trip). The ecology of sailing is highly constrained: sailboats move at the surface between a compressible fluid and an uncompressible fluid. Wind originates in certain specific circumstances. Only certain sequences of actions are possible to take advantage of this ecology. The ontology of sailing is both of the boat and of the ocean/wind system. It highlights the fact that sailboats have been for centuries arguably the most complex technological artifacts in each culture that developed them, precisely because the environment they are engaging is so peculiar and demanding - almost the precise dual of Sapiens' adaptive environment. This volume will appeal to philosophers of mind, cognitive psychologists, and marine professionals.

Nihilism Now! - Monsters of Energy (Hardcover): K. Ansell-Pearson, D. Morgan Nihilism Now! - Monsters of Energy (Hardcover)
K. Ansell-Pearson, D. Morgan
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume aims to inspire a return to the energetics of Nietzsche's prose and the critical intensity of his approach to nihilism and to give back to the future its rightful futurity. The book states that for too long contemporary thought has been dominated by a depressed what is to be done?. All is regarded to be in vain, nothing is deemed real, there is nothing new seen under the sun. Such a postmodern lament is easily confounded with an apathetic reluctance to think engagedly. Hence the contributors draw on the variety of topical issues - the future of life, the nature of life forms, the techno sciences, the body, religion - as a way of tackling the question of nihilism's pertinence to us now.

Raphael's Horary Astrology by which Every Question Relating to the Future May Be Answered (Hardcover): Anon Raphael's Horary Astrology by which Every Question Relating to the Future May Be Answered (Hardcover)
Anon
R648 Discovery Miles 6 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wittgenstein's Philosophy in Psychology - Interpretations and Applications in Historical Context (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Wittgenstein's Philosophy in Psychology - Interpretations and Applications in Historical Context (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Gavin Brent Sullivan
R3,414 Discovery Miles 34 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings on psychology and psychological phenomena for the historical development of contemporary psychology. It presents an insightful assessment of the philosopher's work, particularly his later writings, which draws on key interpretations that have informed our understanding of metapsychological and psychological issues. Wittgenstein's Philosophy in Psychology engages with both critics and followers of the philosopher's work to demonstrate its enduring relevance to psychology today. Sullivan presents a novel examination of Wittgenstein's later writings by providing historical detail about the uptake, understanding and use of Wittgenstein's remarks and method in psychology and related areas of social science, examining persistent sources of conceptual confusion and showing how to apply his insights in investigations of collectives, social life, emotions, subjectivity, and development. In doing so, he reveals the value for psychologists in adopting a philosophical method of conceptual investigation to work through and become more reflexive about prominent theories, methods, therapies and practices in their respective, multiple fields and thereby create a resource for future theoretical, empirical and applied psychologists. This work will be of particular relevance to students and academics engaged in the history of psychology and to practitioners interested in understanding the continued importance of Wittgenstein's work within the practices of psychology.

Science and Human Nature (Hardcover, 3rd ed.): Science and Human Nature (Hardcover, 3rd ed.)
R934 Discovery Miles 9 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Bioethics of Enhancement - Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (Hardcover): Melinda Hall The Bioethics of Enhancement - Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (Hardcover)
Melinda Hall
R2,530 Discovery Miles 25 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of the obligation to pursue enhancement technology. With specific attention to the work of bioethicists Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, the book challenges the rhetoric and strategies of enhancement thinking. These include the desire to transcend the body and decide who should live in future generations through emerging technologies such as genetic selection. Hall provides new analyses rethinking both the philosophy of enhancement and disability, arguing that enhancement should be a matter of social and political interventions, not genetic and biological interventions. Hall concludes that human vulnerability and difference should be cherished rather than extinguished. This book will be of interest to academics working in bioethics and disability studies, along with those working in Continental philosophy (especially on Foucault).

The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Paul Linton The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Paul Linton
R2,231 Discovery Miles 22 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores a central question in the study of depth perception - 'does the visual system rely upon objective knowledge and subjective meaning to specify visual depth?' Linton advances an alternative interpretation to the generally accepted affirmative answer, according to which many of the apparent contributions of knowledge and meaning to depth perception are better understood as contributions to our post-perceptual cognition of depth. In order to defend this position a new account of visual cognition is required, as well as a better understanding of the optical and physiological cues to depth. This book will appeal to students and researchers in psychology, vision science, and philosophy, as well as technologists and content creators working in virtual and augmented reality.

Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Angelos Evangelou Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Angelos Evangelou
R3,545 Discovery Miles 35 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing connections between madness, philosophy and autobiography, this book addresses the question of how Nietzsche's madness might have affected his later works. It also explores why continental philosophy after Nietzsche is so fascinated with madness, and how it (re)considers, (re)evaluates and (re)valorizes madness. To answer these questions, the book analyzes the work of three major figures in twentieth-century French philosophy who were significantly influenced by Nietzsche: Bataille, Foucault and Derrida, examining the ways in which their responses to Nietzsche's madness determine how they understand philosophy as well as philosophy's relation to madness. For these philosophers, posing the question about madness renders the philosophical subject vulnerable and implicates it in a state of responsibility towards that about which it asks. Out of this analysis of their engagement with the question of madness emerges a new conception of 'autobiographical philosophy', which entails the insertion of this vulnerable subject into the philosophical work, to which each of these philosophers adheres or resists in different ways.

Understanding Emotions - Mind and Morals (Hardcover): Peter Goldie Understanding Emotions - Mind and Morals (Hardcover)
Peter Goldie
R3,416 Discovery Miles 34 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title was first published in 2002: At the end of the 20th century, the emotions ceased to be a neglected topic for philosophical consideration. The editor suggests that this may, in part, be due to a change in the way the subject is approached. The emotions were characteristically thought of by philosophers as states which give rise to perturbation in what might roughly be called "right-thinking". The basic idea was that practical reasoning, like theoretical reasoning, ought to be, and can be, dispassionate. This means that either the emotions interfere with "right-reasoning" in a way which is a proper object of study for the biological sciences but not for the science of the mind, or that the emotions become reducible to, and analyzable as, collections of propositional attitudes which are themselves assessable in terms of "right-reasoning". The move away from this idea is taken as an improvement in our philosophical approach to the emotions by the authors. Following this, all of the papers in the volume contribute to this philosophical approach, each approaching the subject from a different angle.

Descartes' Theory of Ideas (Hardcover): David Clemenson Descartes' Theory of Ideas (Hardcover)
David Clemenson
R4,907 Discovery Miles 49 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Descartes held that only ideas are immediately perceived, and that all ideas are really identical to mental states. Yet certain passages in the Meditations seem to assert that some extramental individuals -- the sun, for example, or a piece of wax -- can be immediately perceived (not by the senses, but by the intellect). If so then Descartes was committed to the seemingly absurd claim that extramental things can be really identical to mental states. But the claim is not absurd; as this book shows, it is based on a coherent doctrine of intentional representation that was taught at the Jesuit college of La Fleche that Descartes attended as a youth. On this doctrine, an individual that is outside the mind with one sort of being can be inside it with another. This book brings a fresh perspective to the currently deadlocked debate over whether Descartes was a representationalist or a direct realist, and sheds new light on his difficult notions of material falsity and the self-representational character of thought.

Certainty in Action - Wittgenstein on Language, Mind and Epistemology (Hardcover): Daniele Moyal-Sharrock Certainty in Action - Wittgenstein on Language, Mind and Epistemology (Hardcover)
Daniele Moyal-Sharrock
R3,384 Discovery Miles 33 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Certainty in Action, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock describes how her encounter with Wittgenstein overturned her previous assumptions that the mind is a product of brain activity and that thought, consciousness, the will, feelings, memories, knowledge and language are stored and processed in the brain, by the brain. She shows how Wittgenstein enables us to veer away from this brain-centred view of intelligence and behaviour to a person-centred view focusing on ways of acting that are both diversely embedded across forms of human life and universally embedded in a single human form of life. The book traces the radical importance of action as the cohesive thread weaving through Wittgenstein's philosophy, and shows how certainty intertwines with it to produce new ways of engaging in epistemology, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. This selection of Moyal-Sharrock's essays vividly illustrates some of the ways in which Wittgenstein's pioneering enactivism has impacted - and can further impact - not only philosophy, but also neighbouring disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, primatology, evolutionary psychology and anthropology. Certainty in Action is essential reading for students and researchers of these disciplines, and for anyone interested in getting a grasp of Wittgenstein's lasting genius and influence.

The Book of Fortune-Telling - How to Tell Character and the Future by Palmistry, Cards, Numbers, Phrenology, Handwriting,... The Book of Fortune-Telling - How to Tell Character and the Future by Palmistry, Cards, Numbers, Phrenology, Handwriting, Dreams, Astrology, Etc (Hardcover)
Madame Fabia
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Expressiveness - Perception and Emotions in the Experience of Expressive Objects (Hardcover): Marta Benenti Expressiveness - Perception and Emotions in the Experience of Expressive Objects (Hardcover)
Marta Benenti
R3,183 Discovery Miles 31 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A natural landscape can look serene, a shade of colour cheerful and a piece of music might sound heartrending. Why do we ascribe affective qualities to objects that can't entertain psychological states? The capacity that objects, and especially artworks, have to express affective states is a bizarre phenomenon that needs to be clarified in numerous respects. Philosophers are still struggling with the phenomenon of expressiveness being a matter of imagination, perception, or mnemonic association, and usually do not agree on the role that emotions and human bodily expressions play in it. Benenti questions the main theories that populate the aesthetics domain using the tools of philosophy of mind. This study deals with crucial debates concerning seeing-in, cognitive penetration, the relation between phenomenal character and representational content and between emotions and expressions. It aims at providing a viable account of the experience we have of expressive properties by casting light on its fundamentally perceptual nature. The outcome is an empirically informed and critical overview of a topic which has been rather neglected in the philosophy of mind. The book will be of interest to scholars of the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, the cognitive sciences, and psychology.

Language: A Biological Model (Hardcover, New): Ruth Garrett Millikan Language: A Biological Model (Hardcover, New)
Ruth Garrett Millikan
R4,356 Discovery Miles 43 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ruth Millikan is well known for having developed a strikingly original way for philosophers to seek understanding of mind and language, which she sees as biological phenomena. She now draws together a series of groundbreaking essays which set out her approach to language. Guiding the work of most linguists and philosophers of language today is the assumption that language is governed by prescriptive normative rules. Millikan offers a fundamentally different way of viewing the partial regularities that language displays, comparing them to biological norms that emerge from natural selection. This yields novel and quite radical consequences for our understanding of the nature of public linguistic meaning, the process of language understanding, how children learn language, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction.

Ensoulment - Discover Your Soul's DNA, Experience the Soul of The World (Hardcover): Natalie Zeituny Ensoulment - Discover Your Soul's DNA, Experience the Soul of The World (Hardcover)
Natalie Zeituny
R999 Discovery Miles 9 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Alessandro Capone,... Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza, Franco Lo Piparo
R2,994 Discovery Miles 29 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively. Theoretical papers cover topics such as intercultural pragmatics, evolutionism, argumentation theory, pragmatics and law, the semantics/pragmatics debate, slurs, and more. The applied papers focus on topics such as pragmatic disorders, mapping places of origin, stance-taking, societal pragmatics, and cultural linguistics. This is the second volume of invited papers that were presented at the inaugural Pragmasofia conference in Palermo in 2016, and like its predecessor presents papers by well-known philosophers, linguists, and a semiotician. The papers present a wide variety of perspectives independent from any one school of thought.

My Brain Made Me Do it - The Rise of Neuroscience and the Threat to Moral Responsibility (Paperback): Eliezer J. Sternberg My Brain Made Me Do it - The Rise of Neuroscience and the Threat to Moral Responsibility (Paperback)
Eliezer J. Sternberg
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As scientists continue to explore how the brain works, using ever more sophisticated technology, it seems likely that new findings will radically alter the traditional understanding of human nature. One aspect of human nature that is already being questioned by recent developments in neuroscience is free will. Do our decisions arise from purely mechanistic processes? Is our feeling of self-control merely an illusion created by our brains? If so, what will become of free will and moral responsibility? These thorny questions and many more are examined with great clarity and insight in this engaging exploration of neuroscience's potential impact on moral responsibility. The author delves into a host of fascinating topics, including:
-the parts of the brain that scientists believe are involved in the exercise of will
-what Parkinson's, Tourette's, and schizophrenia reveal about our ability to control our actions
-whether a future of criminal behavior is determined by brain chemistry
-how self-reflective consciousness may have evolved from a largely deterministic brain
Using illustrative examples from philosophy, mythology, history, and criminology, and with thorough discussions of actual scientific experiments, the author explores the threat of neuroscience to moral responsibility as he attempts to answer the question: Are we truly in control of our actions?

Perceptual Experience (Hardcover, New): Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne Perceptual Experience (Hardcover, New)
Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne
R5,753 Discovery Miles 57 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the last few years there has been an explosion of philosophical interest in perception; after decades of neglect, it is now one of the most fertile areas for new work. Perceptual Experience presents new work by fifteen of the world's leading philosophers. All papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics dealing with sensation and representation, consciousness and awareness, and the connections between perception and knowledge and between perception and action. This will be the book on the philosophy of perception, a fascinating resource for philosophers and psychologists.

Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Transcendental Psychology (Hardcover): Faustino Fabbianelli Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Transcendental Psychology (Hardcover)
Faustino Fabbianelli
R3,094 Discovery Miles 30 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy is the first system of transcendental philosophy after Kant. The scholarship of the last years has understood it in different ways: as a model of Grundsatzphilosophie, as a defense of the concept of freedom, as a transformation of philosophy into history of philosophy. The present investigation intends to underline another 'golden thread' that runs through the writings of Reinhold from 1784 to 1794: that which sees in the Elementary Philosophy a system of transcendental psychology.

Strength to Awaken, Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life (Hardcover):... Strength to Awaken, Make Strength Training Your Spiritual Practice and Find New Power and Purpose in Your Life (Hardcover)
Robert Lundin McNamara; Edited by Berg Robert; Foreword by Ken Wilber
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Finally. A book with the complexity and courage to move beyond our cultural obsession with the physical dimensions of training. McNamara redefines strength and provides a practical roadmap that both inspires and instructs on how to liberate our true greatness." - Rand Stagen, founder & managing director Stagen Leadership Academy Inner Engagement for Multifaceted Results Strength to Awaken is unlike any other book on strength training. Change the purpose of your training and life. Gain never-before-seen instruction on the inner dimensions of training. Learn Whole Hearted Engagement to perform at new levels. Enjoy rare clarity as you go beyond the conventions and limitations holding you back. - End Boring Repetitive Exercise and Create Next-Level Performance. - Go Beyond Frustrating Limitations to Whole-Hearted Engagement. - Train yourself to Enjoy more Genuine Pleasure. - Transform Not Just your Body, but your Whole Self. - Get More Benefits, Faster. Rob McNamara is the authority on Integral strength training. He has been one of the world's leading voices in the field of integral practice for nearly a decade. Rob's rigorous approach, open heart, and pioneering method to training provide you with new ways to solve age-old problems that can limit the results in your training.

Mansions of the Soul Reflections on Life (Hardcover): Brother SFO Vitalis Mansions of the Soul Reflections on Life (Hardcover)
Brother SFO Vitalis
R893 Discovery Miles 8 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aphorisms - Brief Bursts of Truth (Hardcover): Donald Patrick Redheffer Aphorisms - Brief Bursts of Truth (Hardcover)
Donald Patrick Redheffer
R1,076 R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Save R143 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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