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What the F*ck Is Your Problem?! - Becoming an Active Worker in Healing Your Trauma (Hardcover): Fanike-Kiara Olugbala Young What the F*ck Is Your Problem?! - Becoming an Active Worker in Healing Your Trauma (Hardcover)
Fanike-Kiara Olugbala Young
R724 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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)

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.

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.

The Book of Five Rings (Hardcover): Miyamoto Musashi The Book of Five Rings (Hardcover)
Miyamoto Musashi
R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Anya Daly Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Anya Daly
R3,237 Discovery Miles 32 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist philosophy to explicate Merleau-Ponty's unwritten ethics. Daly contends that though Merleau-Ponty never developed an ethics per se, there is significant textual evidence that clearly indicates he had the intention to do so. This book highlights the explicit references to ethics that he offers and proposes that these, allied to his ontological commitments, provide the basis for the development of an ethics. In this work Daly shows how Merleau-Ponty's relational ontology, in which the interdependence of self, other and world is affirmed, offers an entirely new approach to ethics. In contrast to the 'top-down' ethics of norms, obligations and prescriptions, Daly maintains that Merleau-Ponty's ethics is a 'bottom-up' ethics which depends on direct insight into our own intersubjective natures, the 'I' within the 'we' and the 'we' within the 'I'; insight into the real nature of our relation to others and the particularities of the given situation. Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity is an important contribution to the scholarship on the later Merleau-Ponty which will be of interest to graduate students and scholars. Daly offers informed readings of Merleau-Ponty's texts and the overall approach is both scholarly and innovative.

The Dawn of Cognitive Science - Early European Contributors (Hardcover, 2001 ed.): L. Albertazzi The Dawn of Cognitive Science - Early European Contributors (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
L. Albertazzi
R4,566 Discovery Miles 45 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language. It focuses in particular on the presence of a hierarchy of intellectual constructions in different formats of representation. These diverse approaches, which share a common assumption of the inner nature of representation, call for a new epistemology - even a new psychophysics - based on a theory of reference which is intrinsically cognitive. As a contribution to contemporary research, the reading presents the core of theories developed in Central Europe between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by philosophers, physicists, psychologists and semanticists who shared a dynamic approach and a pronounced concern with problems of interaction and dependence. These theories offer innovative solutions to some of the epistemological and philosophical problems currently at the centre of debate, like part-whole, theory of relations, and conceptual and linguistic categorization.

Cognitive Integration - Mind and Cognition Unbounded (Hardcover): John Protevi Cognitive Integration - Mind and Cognition Unbounded (Hardcover)
John Protevi; R. Menary
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In "Cognitive Integration: Attacking The Bounds of Cognition" Richard Menary argues that the real pay-off from extended-mind-style arguments is not a new form of externalism in the philosophy of mind, but a view in which the 'internal' and 'external' aspects of cognition are integrated into a whole.
Menary argues that the manipulation of external vehicles constitutes cognitive processes and that cognition is hybrid: internal and external processes and vehicles complement one another in the completion of cognitive tasks. However, we cannot make good on these claims without understanding the cognitive norms by which we manipulate bodily external vehicles of cognition.

Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations - A Theory of Mental Causation (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): Wim de Muijnck Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations - A Theory of Mental Causation (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Wim de Muijnck
R4,536 Discovery Miles 45 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work covers, in its subsequent parts, ontology, the metaphysics of causation, and the philosophy of mind. It provides a firm theoretical basis for believing that in our all-physical world mental causation is perfectly real, and that it can be understood.

Value Reasoning - On the Pragmatic Rationality of Evaluation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Nicholas Rescher Value Reasoning - On the Pragmatic Rationality of Evaluation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Nicholas Rescher
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation is-or should be-a rational procedure directed at appropriate objectives. Above all, it maintains the objectivity of rational evaluation.

Extended Cognition and the Dynamics of Algorithmic Skills (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Simone Pinna Extended Cognition and the Dynamics of Algorithmic Skills (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Simone Pinna
R2,864 R1,900 Discovery Miles 19 000 Save R964 (34%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book describes a novel methodology for studying algorithmic skills, intended as cognitive activities related to rule-based symbolic transformation, and argues that some human computational abilities may be interpreted and analyzed as genuine examples of extended cognition. It shows that the performance of these abilities relies not only on innate neurocognitive systems or language-related skills, but also on external tools and general agent-environment interactions. Further, it asserts that a low-level analysis, based on a set of core neurocognitive systems linking numbers and language, is not sufficient to explain some specific forms of high-level numerical skills, like those involved in algorithm execution. To this end, it reports on the design of a cognitive architecture for modeling all the relevant features involved in the execution of algorithmic strategies, including external tools, such as paper and pencils. The first part of the book discusses the philosophical premises for endorsing and justifying a position in philosophy of mind that links a modified form of computationalism with some recent theoretical and scientific developments, like those introduced by the so-called dynamical approach to cognition. The second part is dedicated to the description of a Turing-machine-inspired cognitive architecture, expressly designed to formalize all kinds of algorithmic strategies.

Value, Reality, and Desire (Hardcover, New): Graham Oddie Value, Reality, and Desire (Hardcover, New)
Graham Oddie
R3,358 Discovery Miles 33 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Value, Reality, and Desire is an extended argument for a robust realism about value. The robust realist affirms the following distinctive theses. There are genuine claims about value which are true or false - there are facts about value. These value-facts are mind-independent - they are not reducible to desires or other mental states, or indeed to any non-mental facts of a non-evaluative kind. And these genuine, mind-independent, irreducible value-facts are causally efficacious. Values, quite literally, affect us. These are not particularly fashionable theses, and taken as a whole they go somewhat against the grain of quite a lot of recent work in the metaphysics of value. Further, against the received view, Oddie argues that we can have knowledge of values by experiential acquaintance, that there are experiences of value which can be both veridical and appropriately responsive to the values themselves. Finally, these value-experiences are not the products of some exotic and implausible faculty of 'intuition'. Rather, they are perfectly mundane and familiar mental states - namely, desires. This view explains how values can be 'intrinsically motivating', without falling foul of the widely accepted 'queerness' objection. There are, of course, other objections to each of the realist's claims. In showing how and why these objections fail, Oddie introduces a wealth of interesting and original insights about issues of wider interest - including the nature of properties, reduction, supervenience, and causation. The result is a novel and interesting account which illuminates what would otherwise be deeply puzzling features of value and desire and the connections between them.

The Things of the World - A Social Phenomenology (Hardcover): James A. Aho The Things of the World - A Social Phenomenology (Hardcover)
James A. Aho
R2,200 Discovery Miles 22 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What does it mean to be a social being in the ordinary life-world? This clear and compelling introduction to social phenomenology examines the experiential features of the basic things comprising our life-world, namely me, you, abstract others (enemies, communities, and associations), and attributes of the lived-body (emotions, pain, and pleasure). Each of these entities is phenomenologically described, with the aim of reducing reports of personal experiences and other primary documents to the presumed prototypical experience of the thing in question--its "ideal essence." Another aim of this study is to sociologically account for how the various entities of the life-world have been "accomplished," that is, how the prototypical experiences of the things in question have come to be. By showing the life-world to be our joint project rather than a fixed, unalterable coherency, this volume destabilizes our naive attitude towards the things of the world. Examples are drawn from the author's own research on issues such as violence, religion, health, and race; from classic and contemporary anthropological research; and from the works of some of the most innovative philosophers of the twentieth century. This study actually does phenomenology instead of merely arguing for its necessity and will appeal to both social scientists and philosophers.

Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self (Hardcover): Kevin Tobia Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self (Hardcover)
Kevin Tobia
R3,103 Discovery Miles 31 030 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Exploring issues ranging from the metaphysical to the moral and legal, a team of esteemed contributors bring together some of the most important and cutting-edge findings in experimental philosophy of the self to address longstanding philosophical questions about personal identity, such as: What makes us today the same person as our childhood and future selves? Can certain changes transform us into a different person? Do our everyday moral practices presuppose a false account of who we are? Chapters offer a survey of recent empirical work and foster dialogue between experimental and traditional philosophical approaches to identity, covering the moral self, dual character concepts, true self, transformative experience and the identity conditions collective entities. With novel experiments and thought-provoking applications to practical concerns including law, immigration, bioethics and politics, this collection highlights the value and implications of empirical work on personal identity.

Rationality and Religion: Does Faith Need Reason? (Hardcover): "Trigg" Rationality and Religion: Does Faith Need Reason? (Hardcover)
"Trigg"
R3,479 Discovery Miles 34 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Exploring some of the most fundamental issues facing religion at the present time, this concise study deals squarely with such problems as the existence of different religions, the relationship between science and religion, and religion versus reason in a pluralist society.

Simulation and Similarity - Using Models to Understand the World (Hardcover): Michael Weisberg Simulation and Similarity - Using Models to Understand the World (Hardcover)
Michael Weisberg
R2,738 Discovery Miles 27 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state's water shortage problem was to dam up the San Francisco Bay. Against massive political pressure, Reber's opponents persuaded lawmakers that doing so would lead to disaster. They did this not by empirical measurement alone, but also through the construction of a model. Simulation and Similarity explains why this was a good strategy while simultaneously providing an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice. Michael Weisberg focuses on concrete, mathematical, and computational models in his consideration of the nature of models, the practice of modeling, and nature of the relationship between models and real-world phenomena.
In addition to a careful analysis of physical, computational, and mathematical models, Simulation and Similarity offers a novel account of the model/world relationship. Breaking with the dominant tradition, which favors the analysis of this relation through logical notions such as isomorphism, Weisberg instead presents a similarity-based account called weighted feature matching. This account is developed with an eye to understanding how modeling is actually practiced. Consequently, it takes into account the ways in which scientists' theoretical goals shape both the applications and the analyses of their models.

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