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Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.): Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
R4,397 Discovery Miles 43 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate", declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery. And yet the searching human being seeks ceaselessly to disentangle the networks of experiences, desires, inward promptings, personal ambitions, and elevated strivings which directed his/her life-course within changing circumstances in order to discover his sense of life. Literature seeks in numerous channels of insight the dominant threads of "the sense of life", "the inward quest", "the frames of experience" in reaching the inward sources of what we call 'destiny' inspired by experience and temporality which carry it on. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form sense of life stretching between destiny and doom. They escape attention in their metamorphic transformations of the inexorable, irreversibility of time which undergoes different interpretations in the phases examining our life. Our key to life has to be ever discovered anew.

Propelled - How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life (Hardcover): Andreas Elpidorou Propelled - How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life (Hardcover)
Andreas Elpidorou
R1,722 R1,007 Discovery Miles 10 070 Save R715 (42%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Many of our endeavors - be it personal or communal, technological or artistic - aim at eradicating all traces of dissatisfaction from our daily lives. They seek to cure us of our discontent in order to deliver us a fuller and flourishing existence. But what if ubiquitous pleasure and instant fulfilment make our lives worse, not better? What if discontent isn't an obstacle to the good life but one of its essential ingredients? In Propelled, Andreas Elpidorou makes a lively case for the value of discontent and illustrates how boredom, frustration, and anticipation are good for us. Weaving together stories from sources as wide-ranging as classical literature, social and cognitive psychology, philosophy, art, and video games, Elpidorou shows that these psychological states aren't unpleasant accidents of our lives. Rather, they illuminate our desires and expectations, inform us when we find ourselves stuck in unpleasant and unfulfilling situations, and motivate us to furnish our lives with meaning, interest, and value. Boredom, frustration, and anticipation aren't obstacles to our goals-they are our guides, propelling us into lives that are truly our own.

Psychology and Philosophy - Inquiries into the Soul from Late Scholasticism to Contemporary Thought (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): Sara... Psychology and Philosophy - Inquiries into the Soul from Late Scholasticism to Contemporary Thought (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Sara Heinamaa, Martina Reuter
R4,552 Discovery Miles 45 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Psychology and Philosophy provides a history of the relations between philosophy and the science of psychology from late scholasticism to contemporary discussions. The book covers the development from 16th-century interpretations of Aristotle's De Anima, through Kantianism and the 19th-century revival of Aristotelianism, up to 20th-century phenomenological and analytic studies of consciousness and the mind.

In this volume historically divergent conceptions of psychology as a science receive special emphasis. The volume illuminates the particular nature of studies of the psyche in the contexts of Aristotelian and Cartesian as well as 19th- and 20th-century science and philosophy. The relations between metaphysics, transcendental philosophy, and natural science are studied in the works of Kant, Brentano, Bergson, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, and Davidson. Accounts of less known philosophers, such as Trendelenburg and Maine de Biran, throw new light on the history of the field. Discussions concerning the connections between moral philosophy and philosophical psychology broaden the volume's perspective and show new directions for development.

All contributions are based on novel research in their respective fields. The collection provides materials for researchers and graduate students in the fields of philosophy of mind, history of philosophy, and psychology.

Process and the Authentic Life - Toward a Psychology of Value (Hardcover): Jason W. Brown Process and the Authentic Life - Toward a Psychology of Value (Hardcover)
Jason W. Brown
R5,770 Discovery Miles 57 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The thesis advanced in this book is that feeling and cognition actualize through a process that originates in older brain formations and develops outward through limbic and cortical fields through the self-concept and private space into (as) the world. An iteration of this transition deposits acts, objects, feelings and utterances. Value is a mode of conceptual feeling that depends on the dominant phase in this transition: from desire through interest to object worth. Among the topics covered are subjective time and change, the epochal nature of objects and their temporal extensibility and the evolution of value from inorganic matter into organic form. The theory of microgenesis informs this work. According to this theory, acts and objects evolve in milliseconds through phases that replicate patterns in forebrain evolution. The progression in the actualization of the mind/brain state is from archaic to recent in brain formation, from unity to diversity, from past to present and from mind to world. An account is given of the diversity of felt experience avoiding the reductionist moves characteristic of biological materialism and the inherent dualism of psychoanalytic and related theories. This book is intended for any reader interested in the psychology of the inner life and philosophy of mind, including philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists and others with an interest in problems of value and moral feeling.

The Voice of the Other - Language as Illusion in the Formation of the Self (Hardcover, New): Stanley Rothstein The Voice of the Other - Language as Illusion in the Formation of the Self (Hardcover, New)
Stanley Rothstein
R2,206 Discovery Miles 22 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work introduces the concept of the Voice of the Other and the intersubjective world it creates for humans. The unconscious processes of speech and language are deeply identified with the ego. In the movement from nature to civilization, the newborn is mastered by language and becomes part of the social world of his parents. The child's thought is now structured by parental language and speech as well as by memories stored in the unconscious. What is real for the individual is composed only of the images and words that define them. Even family and school relationships are structured in language and the social formations that language created in the past. The imaginary and symbolic functions of the mind form ideologies that bind people together and help them to make sense of their world. In schools this leads to submissive students and constant teacher-student conflict.

The author uses the works of Freud, Lacan, and Marx to situate schooling in capitalist society. He employs psychoanalytic, linguistic, and anthropological perspectives in an attempt to discover how we think and communicate with one another using unconscious processes.

The Dark Side: Philosophical Reflections on the "Negative Emotions" (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Paola Giacomoni, Nicolo... The Dark Side: Philosophical Reflections on the "Negative Emotions" (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Paola Giacomoni, Nicolo Valentini, Sara Dellantonio
R3,388 Discovery Miles 33 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book takes the reader on a philosophical quest to understand the dark side of emotions. The chapters are devoted to the analysis of negative emotions and are organized in a historical manner, spanning the period from ancient Greece to the present time. Each chapter addresses analytical questions about specific emotions generally considered to be unfavorable and classified as negative. The general aim of the volume is to describe the polymorphous and context-sensitive nature of negative emotions as well as changes in the ways people have interpreted these emotions across different epochs. The editors speak of 'the dark side of the emotions' because their goal is to capture the ambivalent - unstable and shadowy - aspects of emotions. A number of studies have taken the categorial distinction between positive and negative emotions for granted, suggesting that negative emotions are especially significant for our psychological experience because they signal difficult situations. For this reason, the editors stress the importance of raising analytical questions about the valence of particular emotions and focussing on the features that make these emotions ambivalent: how - despite their negativity - such emotions may turn out to be positive. This opens up a perspective in which each emotion can be understood as a complex interlacing of negative and positive properties. The collection presents a thoughtful dialogue between philosophy and contemporary scientific research. It offers the reader insight by illuminating the dark side of the emotions.

The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Nicolas Faucher,... The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Nicolas Faucher, Magali Roques
R3,679 Discovery Miles 36 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book features 20 essays that explore how Latin medieval philosophers and theologians from Anselm to Buridan conceived of habitus, as well as detailed studies of the use of the concept by Augustine and of the reception of the medieval doctrines of habitus in Suarez and Descartes. Habitus are defined as stable dispositions to act or think in a certain way. This definition was passed down to the medieval thinkers from Aristotle and, to a lesser extent, Augustine, and played a key role in many of the philosophical and theological developments of the time. Written by leading experts in medieval and modern philosophy, the book offers a historical overview that examines the topic in light of recent advances in medieval cognitive psychology and medieval moral theory. Coverage includes such topics as the metaphysics of the soul, the definition of virtue and vice, and the epistemology of self-knowledge. The book also contains an introduction that is the first attempt at a comprehensive survey of the nature and function of habitus in medieval thought. The material will appeal to a wide audience of historians of philosophy and contemporary philosophers. It is relevant as much to the historian of ancient philosophy who wants to track the historical reception of Aristotelian ideas as it is to historians of modern philosophy who would like to study the progressive disappearance of the term "habitus" in the early modern period and the concepts that were substituted for it. In addition, the volume will also be of interest to contemporary philosophers open to historical perspectives in order to renew current trends in cognitive psychology, virtue epistemology, and virtue ethics.

Meet Your Playful Mind Volume 2 - The Interaction Betwen Instinct and Intellect and Its Impact on Human Behavior (Hardcover):... Meet Your Playful Mind Volume 2 - The Interaction Betwen Instinct and Intellect and Its Impact on Human Behavior (Hardcover)
Mark Abraham
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Interactions Between Instinct and Intellect and its Impact on Human Behavior
Length: 286 Pages
I argue that human affairs divide into the two categories of serious affairs and fun affairs. The pleasure seeking aspect of humanity mostly revolves around fun, compassion, amazement and amusement, and sexuality that together constitute humans' Playful Mind, covered in this book. As Shakespeare says, "to be human is to play." Different instincts constantly precipitate varying human interests and energize all human emotions and compel them to interact. For example, the artists through their endless beautiful arts and athletes through their amazing athletic abilities purge life of boredom and render life endlessly joyous and pleasing. There are those who says, heaven belongs to mothers, but I say while that is true, it also belongs to great artists and athletes. However, without understanding what inner forces make these phenomena compellingly captivating for humans we will continue to enjoy them without properly understanding what it is that we so enjoy.
In that, humans have enjoyed arts and sports for millennia without being able to articulate exactly what in these seemingly frivolous activities so engrosses these superbly intelligent and purposeful beings, humans. Hence, we have been relishing that which we do not understand at all. To use another example in the realm of human sexuality, over 90% of both genders have sexual fantasies that create a unique brand of human psychology of its own. Yet the origin of this fascinating and universally prevalent human mental phenomenon is yet to be explained in a meaningful way. This study, The Interactions Between Instinct and Intellect and its Impact on Human Behavior, for the first time unveils all these and more of human mysteries and renders humans naked, so to speak.

An Unfinished Work (Hardcover): Jutta Morris An Unfinished Work (Hardcover)
Jutta Morris
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Action and Existence - A Case For Agent Causation (Hardcover, New): J. Swindal Action and Existence - A Case For Agent Causation (Hardcover, New)
J. Swindal
R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained.

Forming the Mind - Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment... Forming the Mind - Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment (Hardcover, Special Edition)
Henrik Lagerlund
R4,552 Discovery Miles 45 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Forming the Mind' deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It stresses how important and fruitful it is to see the time period between 1100 and 1700 as one continuous tradition, and brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. In this respect, this collection opens up several new and interesting perspectives on the history of the philosophy of mind.

Consciousness from Descartes to Ayer (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): David Berman Consciousness from Descartes to Ayer (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
David Berman
R1,854 Discovery Miles 18 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The title is meant to indicate that consciousness is being examined largely within the history of philosophy, and within the period of time from Descartes to Ayer. Investigators aiming to understand consciousness and minds usually try to take account of all individual human minds, so as to have the most data for the most encompassing induction. The problem with that approach is that because of the vastness of the data, its results tend to be vague, lacking the specificity of studies of individuals. On the other hand, the problem with studies of individuals is that they cannot guarantee generality, as the opposing method can. This book's distinctive approach aims at a middle way, getting the best of the two opposing methods by drawing its data from the history of philosophy, especially the history of the great philosophers.

Theories of Judgment - Psychology, Logic, Phenomenology (Hardcover, New): Wayne Martin Theories of Judgment - Psychology, Logic, Phenomenology (Hardcover, New)
Wayne Martin
R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The exercise of judgement is an aspect of human endeavour from our most mundane acts to our most momentous decisions. In this book Wayne Martin develops a historical survey of theoretical approaches to judgement, focusing on treatments of judgement in psychology, logic, phenomenology and painting. He traces attempts to develop theories of judgement in British Empiricism, the logical tradition stemming from Kant, nineteenth-century psychologism, experimental neuropsychology and the phenomenological tradition associated with Brentano, Husserl and Heidegger. His reconstruction of vibrant but largely forgotten nineteenth-century debates links Kantian approaches to judgement with twentieth-century phenomenological accounts. He also shows that the psychological, logical and phenomenological dimensions of judgement are not only equally important but fundamentally interlinked in any complete understanding of judgement. His book will interest a wide range of readers in history of philosophy, philosophy of the mind and psychology.

Representations of Internarrative Identity (Hardcover): L. Way Representations of Internarrative Identity (Hardcover)
L. Way
R2,307 R1,919 Discovery Miles 19 190 Save R388 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based upon Ajit Maan's groundbreaking theory of Internarrative Identity, this collection focuses upon redefining self, slave narrative, the black Caribbean diaspora, and cyberspace to explore the interconnection between identity and life experience as expressed through personal narrative.

Instincts - The Hidden Spirits That Drive You (Hardcover): Norris Ray Peery Instincts - The Hidden Spirits That Drive You (Hardcover)
Norris Ray Peery
R569 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the third in my series of four books dealing with Intelligence, Instincts, and Consciousness. The simple and truthful realization of what we are, and how we got to where we are within nature's world, is the ultimate truth that any philosophy could ever propose to know. It is ultimately the most powerful state that any human mind can ever attain. It is a true kind of nirvana. It is with this knowing state of mind that we can make ever-new beginnings and provide for a future where our chances are best for surviving whatever random hells that nature will with great certainty rise up against us. The fact that we might have to eventually face up to what we are as completely definable creatures in terms of a very complex organization of billions of very simple structures is not in anyway whatsoever a degradation of the truth of our humanity. Understanding what we are has led us to realize both the miraculous and morally good achievements of our kind, and also to an understanding of the basic nature of our more hidden ugly and evil actions.

This Is Philosophy of Mind - An Introduction (Paperback): P Mandik This Is Philosophy of Mind - An Introduction (Paperback)
P Mandik
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Discover fascinating and illuminating contributions to historical and contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind In the newly revised second edition of This Is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, accomplished philosopher Pete Mandik delivers an accessible primer on the core issues animating contemporary and historical discussions in the philosophy of mind. The book is part of the This is Philosophy series that introduces undergraduate students to key concepts and methods in the study of philosophy. This particular edition walks readers through perennial issues like the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, free will, and the nature of consciousness. This is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction also provides complimentary access to valuable supplemental online resources.

The Giving Principle (Hardcover): Arthur G. Brown The Giving Principle (Hardcover)
Arthur G. Brown
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Hardcover): Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Hardcover)
Joseph Murphy
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Superminds - People Harness Hypercomputation, and More (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): Selmer Bringsjord, M. Zenzen Superminds - People Harness Hypercomputation, and More (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Selmer Bringsjord, M. Zenzen
R3,089 Discovery Miles 30 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book-length presentation and defense of a new theory of human and machine cognition, according to which human persons are superminds. Superminds are capable of processing information not only at and below the level of Turing machines (standard computers), but above that level (the "Turing Limit"), as information processing devices that have not yet been (and perhaps can never be) built, but have been mathematically specified; these devices are known as super-Turing machines or hypercomputers. Superminds, as explained herein, also have properties no machine, whether above or below the Turing Limit, can have. The present book is the third and pivotal volume in Bringsjord's supermind quartet; the first two books were What Robots Can and Can't Be (Kluwer) and AI and Literary Creativity (Lawrence Erlbaum). The final chapter of this book offers eight prescriptions for the concrete practice of AI and cognitive science in light of the fact that we are superminds.

Moral Emotions and Intuitions (Hardcover): S. Roeser Moral Emotions and Intuitions (Hardcover)
S. Roeser
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author presents a new philosophical theory according to which we need intuitions and emotions in order to have objective moral knowledge, which is called affectual intuitionism. Affectual Intuitionism combines ethical intuitionism with a cognitive theory of emotions.

The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015):... The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Morten S Thaning
R2,798 R1,978 Discovery Miles 19 780 Save R820 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reassesses Gadamer's hermeneutics by bringing it into a dialogue with John McDowell's minimal empiricism. It employs the resources of McDowell's minimal empiricism to address the transcendental and ontological presuppositions for objective experience and understanding, while retaining Gadamer's emphasis on the historicity of understanding. By means of the dialogue with McDowell, the book develops a hermeneutical conception of objectivity and perceptual experience, which also entails reinterpretations of Gadamer's notions of tradition, practical wisdom and meaning. The book explores the philosophical space beyond the analytic-Continental divide and demonstrates that hermeneutics is not limited to a reflection on understanding as it is practiced in the human sciences, but can be revived as a distinct and cogent philosophical approach with a transcendental and ontological dimension. Thaning's book is a richly detailed, well-argued and coherent presentation of a defensible, and potentially very important, philosophical position. It demonstrates an impressively deep understanding of the literature both from the phenomenological tradition and from the part of the analytical tradition, inspired by Wilfred Sellars, to which John McDowell belongs. Being a substantial philosophical achievement in its own right, the book raises far-reaching questions that will be of interest to a wide audience. Dr. Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston (USA) Morten Thaning's book is an important contribution to the discourse of philosophical hermeneutics. Thaning extensively discusses a topic, which recent debates have touched upon, but which up to now has not been the subject matter of concentrated scholarly work: the relation between Gadamer's hermeneutics and McDowell's empiricism. With Thaning's interpretation Gadamer' work can be read anew as concerning the problem of hermeneutical objectivity. Prof. Dr. Gunter Figal, University of Freiburg (Germany)

The Fascination with Unknown Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Sibylle Baumbach, Lena Henningsen, Klaus Oschema The Fascination with Unknown Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Sibylle Baumbach, Lena Henningsen, Klaus Oschema
R2,955 Discovery Miles 29 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siecle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of 'deep time' and 'timelessness' in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time-past, present, and future alike-in music, film, and science fiction.

Against Theory of Mind (Hardcover, New): I. Leudar, A. Costall Against Theory of Mind (Hardcover, New)
I. Leudar, A. Costall
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The "theory of mind" framework has been the fastest growing body of empirical research in contemporary psychology. It has given rise to a range of positions on what it takes to relate to others as intentional beings. This book brings together disparate strands of ToM research, lays out historical roots of the idea, and indicates better alternatives.

Psychoanalytic Knowledge (Hardcover, New): M. Chung, C. Feltham Psychoanalytic Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
M. Chung, C. Feltham
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Nature of Mind presents cutting edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge in the light of contemporary philosophical views or critiques of a diversity of topics relevant to psychoanalysis: the philosophy of mind; the notion of changing oneself; religion; the notion of interdisciplinary links with psychoanalytic knowledge; post-Freudian psychoanalytic knowledge and challenges to psychoanalytic methodology.

Language and Empiricism - After the Vienna Circle (Hardcover): S. Chapman Language and Empiricism - After the Vienna Circle (Hardcover)
S. Chapman
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book compares attitudes to empiricism in language study from mid-twentieth century philosophy of language and from present-day linguistics. It focuses on responses to the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle, particularly in the work of British philosopher J. L. Austin and the much less well-known work of Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess.

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