0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
Price
  • R50 - R100 (2)
  • R100 - R250 (244)
  • R250 - R500 (923)
  • R500+ (5,368)
  • -
Status
Format
Author / Contributor
Publisher

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

Finding Winnicott - Philosophical Encounters with the Psychoanalytic (Hardcover): Fadi Abou-Rihan Finding Winnicott - Philosophical Encounters with the Psychoanalytic (Hardcover)
Fadi Abou-Rihan
R3,855 Discovery Miles 38 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

1. Takes the work of Winnicott and at it through a philosophical lens 2. Using this approach, he opens up an furthers Winnicott's theories of play, use of an object and otherness 3. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to both practicing analysts, analysts in training and students reading philosophy or looking into psychoanalytic theories.

Sexual Deceit - The Ethics of Passing (Hardcover): Kelby Harrison Sexual Deceit - The Ethics of Passing (Hardcover)
Kelby Harrison
R2,155 Discovery Miles 21 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sexual Deceit is an extended ethical analysis of the phenomenon of sexual identity passing - i.e. socially presenting as X, when one understands oneself as Y, where the variables represent any contemporary sexual identity - alongside identity passing in the contexts of race, gender, and briefly, religion and class. The analysis of passing utilizes and challenges traditional moral understandings of identity falsification, complicating our understandings of moral obligations under systemic oppression. Tracing the intervention of social construction theory on contemporary political understandings of LGBT communities and activism, Sexual Deceit argues against social construction models of identity - notably performativity, promulgated by the work of Judith Butler and consumed and repeated by many scholars and theory educated queer people. A new model of identity is constructed, based on a phenomenological concept of style that provides for a socially adjustable yet rooted notion of sexual identity. The ethical implications of sexual identity passing are considered in the context of eschatological images of social justice and within practical matters such as military service, leadership, and sexual harassment law.

A Topology of Mind - Spiral Thought Patterns, the Hyperlinking of Text, Ideas and More (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Robert K.... A Topology of Mind - Spiral Thought Patterns, the Hyperlinking of Text, Ideas and More (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Robert K. Logan, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
R3,141 Discovery Miles 31 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume covers many diverse topics related in varying degrees to mathematics in mind including the mathematical and topological structures of thought and communication. It examines mathematics in mind from the perspective of the spiral, cyclic and hyperlinked structures of the human mind in terms of its language, its thoughts and its various modes of communication in science, philosophy, literature and the arts including a chapter devoted to the spiral structure of the thought of Marshall McLuhan. In it, the authors examine the topological structures of hypertext, hyperlinking, and hypermedia made possible by the Internet and the hyperlinked structures that existed before its emergence. It also explores the cognitive origins of mathematical thinking of the human mind and its relation to the emergence of spoken language, and studies the emergence of mathematical notation and its impact on education. Topics addressed include: * The historical context of any topic that involves how mathematical thinking emerged, focusing on archaeological and philological evidence. * Connection between math cognition and symbolism, annotation and other semiotic processes. * Interrelationships between mathematical discovery and cultural processes, including technological systems that guide the thrust of cognitive and social evolution. * Whether mathematics is an innate faculty or forged in cultural-historical context * What, if any, structures are shared between mathematics and language

The Life and Writings of Giambattista Vico (Hardcover): H.P. Adams The Life and Writings of Giambattista Vico (Hardcover)
H.P. Adams
R2,963 Discovery Miles 29 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1935, The Life and Writings of Giambattista Vico is a succinct biography of the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico. Carefully documented, the book comments on Vico's life as well as his oeuvre in a bid to extend his audience to the English-speaking population. From his early childhood to the influence of his writings after his death, the book provides a keen insight into the many facets of his philosophy. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy and history.

Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy - Towards a New Paradigm (Hardcover): Franco Fabbro Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy - Towards a New Paradigm (Hardcover)
Franco Fabbro
R4,011 Discovery Miles 40 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

* Provides a new integrated theory of the study of philosophy that highlights the importance of understanding biological, psychological and neuroscientific principles * Highlights interdisciplinary research and theory in evolution, consciousness and DNA research and neurolinguistics * Written by an expert in neuroscience and neurolinguistics

Philosophy and History of Psychology - Selected works of Elizabeth Valentine (Paperback): Elizabeth R. Valentine Philosophy and History of Psychology - Selected works of Elizabeth Valentine (Paperback)
Elizabeth R. Valentine
R1,316 Discovery Miles 13 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book enables the reader to trace developments in the philosophy and history of psychology. It provides a broad treatment of the main conceptual issues in psychology, explaining what the problems are, outlining the main approaches taken to them, and indicating their relative merits and demerits.

Waking Up - Searching for Spirituality Without Religion (Paperback): Sam Harris Waking Up - Searching for Spirituality Without Religion (Paperback)
Sam Harris
R295 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bloom ___ For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. Throughout the book, Harris argues that there are important truths to be found in the experience of contemplatives such as Jesus, Buddha and other saints and sages of history-and, therefore, that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow. Waking Up is part seeker's memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris-a scientist, philosopher, and famous sceptic-could write it. ___ 'A demanding, illusion-shattering book.' Kirkus Reviews 'A pleasure to read.' Huffington Post

Beyond Identities: Human Becomings in Weirding Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Jim Dator Beyond Identities: Human Becomings in Weirding Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Jim Dator
R2,879 Discovery Miles 28 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an argument for moving beyond culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity as the necessary foundation of an authentic self. It highlights examples of people who are attempting to inhabit identities they feel are more appropriate to themselves, by deploring the damage done via claims about authentic identity. The sole theme of this book is "becoming beyond identity". We are not fixed human beings but rather perpetually-dynamic human becomings. As intelligence is enabled or recognized beyond the merely human, we should welcome our continuing evolution from homosapiens, sapiens, into many varieties of intelligences on Earth and the cosmos. This book builds from tiny ripples into a tsunami of examples from conventional identity studies, to Confucian human becomings, to apotemnophilia, to DIY biohacking, to cyborgs, to artilects, to hiveminds, to intelligence in animals, plants and fungi from the Holocene through the beginnings of the precarious, climate change-driven Anthropocene Epoch, with hints far beyond and throughout the cosmos. From a lifetime of work in future studies, anticipation science and space studies, the author balances frank tales of his own experiences and beliefs concerning his uncertain and fluid identities with those of others who tell their stories. In addition to material from academic and popular sources, a few poems further illuminate the scene.

In Emergency, Break Glass - What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World (Hardcover): Nate Anderson In Emergency, Break Glass - What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World (Hardcover)
Nate Anderson
R643 R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Save R77 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by "content." Written long before the advent of smartphones, Nietzsche's aphoristic philosophy advocated a fierce mastery of attention, a strict information diet, and a powerful connection to the natural world. Drawing on Nietzsche's work, technology journalist Nate Anderson advocates for a life of goal-oriented, creative exertion as more meaningful than the "frictionless" leisure often promised by our devices. He rejects the simplicity of contemporary prescriptions like reducing screen time in favour of looking deeply at what truly matters to us, then finding ways to make our technological tools serve this vision. With a light touch suffused by humour, Anderson uncovers the impact of this "yes-saying" philosophy on his own life-and perhaps on yours.

The Feeling of Embodiment - A Case Study in Explaining Consciousness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Glenn Carruthers The Feeling of Embodiment - A Case Study in Explaining Consciousness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Glenn Carruthers
R2,382 Discovery Miles 23 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness. It argues that the study of an aspect of our self-consciousness known as the 'feeling of embodiment' teaches us that there are two distinct phenomena to be targeted by an explanation of consciousness. First is an explanation of the phenomenal qualities - 'what it is like' - of the experience; and second is the subject's awareness of those qualities. Glenn Carruthers explores the phenomenal qualities of the feeling of embodiment using the tools of quality spaces, as well as the subject's awareness of those qualities as a functionally emergent property of various kinds of processing of these spaces. Where much recent work on consciousness focuses on visual experience, this book rather draws evidence from the study of self-consciousness. Carruthers argues that in light of recent methodological discoveries, awareness must be explained in terms of the organization of multiple cognitive processes. The book offers an explanation of anomalous body representations and, from that, poses a more general theory of consciousness. Ultimately this book creates a hybrid account of consciousness that explains phenomenology and awareness using different tools. It will be of great interest to all scholars of psychology and philosophy as well as anyone interested in exploring the intricacies of how we experience our bodies, what we are and how we fit into the world.

Memory, History, Justice in Hegel (Hardcover): Angelica Nuzzo Memory, History, Justice in Hegel (Hardcover)
Angelica Nuzzo
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This reconstruction of the work of 'dialectical memory' in Hegel raises the fundamental question of the principle that presides on the articulation of history and indicates in Hegel's philosophy two alternative models of conceiving history: one that grounds history on 'ethical memory,' the other that sees justice as the moving principle of history.

Deleuze and the Unconscious (Hardcover): Christian Kerslake Deleuze and the Unconscious (Hardcover)
Christian Kerslake
R5,421 Discovery Miles 54 210 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

By the end of the twentieth century, it had been almost forgotten that the Freudian account of the unconscious was only one of many to have emerged from the intellectual ferment of the second half of the 19th century. The philosophical roots of the concept of the unconscious in Leibniz, Kant, Schelling and Schopenhauer had also been occluded from view by the dominance of Freudianism. From his earliest work of the 1940s, until his final writings of the 1990s, Gilles Deleuze stood at odds with this dominant current, rejecting Freud as sole source for ideas about the unconscious. This most 'contemporary' of French philosophers acted as custodian of all the ideas that had been rejected by the proponents of the psychoanalytic model, carefully preserving them and, when possible, injecting them with new life. In 1950s and 60s Deleuze turned to Henri Bergson's theories of memory and instinct and to Carl Jung's theory of archetypes. In "Difference and Repetition (1968)" he conceived of a 'differential unconscious' based on Leibnizian principles. He was also immersed from the beginning in esoteric and occult ideas about the nature of the mind. "Deleuze and the Unconscious" shows how these tendencies combine in Deleuze's work to engender a wholly new approach to the unconscious, for which active relations to the unconscious are just as important as the better known pathologies of neurosis and psychosis.

The Value of Emotions for Knowledge (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Laura Candiotto The Value of Emotions for Knowledge (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Laura Candiotto
R3,385 Discovery Miles 33 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This innovative new volume analyses the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition. It focuses on the field of philosophy of emotions at the exciting intersection between epistemology and philosophy of mind and cognitive science to bring us an in-depth analysis of the epistemological value of emotions in reasoning. With twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming academics, this edited collection shows that emotions do count for our epistemic enterprise. Against scepticism about the possible positive role emotions play in knowledge, the authors highlight the how and the why of this potential, lucidly exploring the key aspects of the functionality of emotions. This is explored in relation to: specific kinds of knowledge such as self-understanding, group-knowledge and wisdom; specific functions played by certain emotions in these cases, such as disorientation in enquiry and contempt in practical reason; the affective experience of the epistemic subjects and communities.

Practical Tortoise Raising - and other philosophical essays (Hardcover): Simon Blackburn Practical Tortoise Raising - and other philosophical essays (Hardcover)
Simon Blackburn
R1,709 Discovery Miles 17 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought. It is puzzling how our thinking gets to grip with such things as values and norms. Blackburn explores how we can try to understand what we say in terms of what we are doing when we say it. He investigates how propositions interact with linguistic expressions whose primary function is identified in terms of actions performed in expressing commitments with them, when those commitments are thought of in practical rather than descriptive terms. He broadens his investigation from semantic questions to wider issues of pluralism, pragmatism, philosophy of mind, and the nature of practical reasoning.

Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness - Selected works of Max Velmans (Paperback): Max Velmans Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness - Selected works of Max Velmans (Paperback)
Max Velmans
R1,316 Discovery Miles 13 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. In this volume Max Velmans reflects on his long-spanning and varied career, considers the highs and lows in a brand new introduction and offers reactions to those who have responded to his published work over the years. This book offers a unique and compelling collection of the best publications in consciousness studies from one of the few psychologists to treat the topic systematically and seriously. Velmans' approach is multi-faceted and represents a convergence of numerous fields of study - culminating in fascinating insights that are of interest to philosopher, psychologist and neuroscientist alike. With continuing contemporary relevance, and significant historical impact, this collection of works is an essential resource for all those engaged or interested in the field of consciousness studies and the philosophy of the mind.

The Imagination (Paperback): Jean-Paul Sartre The Imagination (Paperback)
Jean-Paul Sartre; Translated by Kenneth Williford; Afterword by Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Translated by David Rudrauf
R862 R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Save R82 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.' - Jean-Paul Sartre"

L Imagination" was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long out of print, this is the first English translation in many years. "The Imagination" is Sartre s first full philosophical work, presenting some of the basic arguments concerning phenomenology, consciousness and intentionality that were to later appear in his master works and be so influential in the course of twentieth-century philosophy.

Sartre begins by criticising philosophical theories of the imagination, particularly those of Descartes, Leibniz and Hume, before establishing his central thesis. Imagination does not involve the perception of mental images in any literal sense, Sartre argues, yet reveals some of the fundamental capacities of consciousness. He then reviews psychological theories of the imagination, including a fascinating discussion of the work of Henri Bergson. Sartre argues that the classical conception is fundamentally flawed because it begins by conceiving of the imagination as being like perception and then seeks, in vain, to re-establish the difference between the two. Sartre concludes with an important chapter on Husserl s theory of the imagination which, despite sharing the flaws of earlier approaches, signals a new phenomenological way forward in understanding the imagination.

"The Imagination" is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, phenomenology, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy.

This new translation includes a helpful historical and philosophical introduction by Kenneth Williford and David Rudrauf. Also included is Maurice Merleau-Ponty s important review of "L Imagination "upon its publication in French in 1936.

Translated by Kenneth Williford and David Rudrauf.

Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition (Hardcover): Douglas Hochstetler Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition (Hardcover)
Douglas Hochstetler; Foreword by Amby Burfoot; Contributions by Douglas Anderson, Kaarina Beam, Cody D Cash, …
R3,402 R2,399 Discovery Miles 23 990 Save R1,003 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition, edited by Douglas R. Hochstetler, analyzes the relationship between endurance sports-such as running, cycling, and swimming-and themes from the American philosophical tradition. The contributors enter into dialogue with writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Henry David Thoreau, and John Dewey, as well as more recent scholars such as John McDermott and bell hooks. Examining American philosophical themes informs issues in endurance sport, and the experiential nature of endurance sport helps address philosophical issues and explain philosophical themes in American philosophy. The chapters bear witness to the fact that philosophy is not limited to abstract notions such as justice, truth, happiness, and so forth, but intersects with and has a bearing on our human endeavors of work and play. Furthermore, the themes centrally related to the American philosophical tradition align closely with the challenges and experiences present and faced by runners, cyclists, swimmers, and endurance athletes in general.

The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture - Understanding Contributions and Controversies (Paperback): Peter J.... The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture - Understanding Contributions and Controversies (Paperback)
Peter J. Columbus
R1,322 Discovery Miles 13 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Whilst accounting for the present-day popularity and relevance of Alan Watts' contributions to psychology, religion, arts, and humanities, this interdisciplinary collection grapples with the ongoing criticisms which surround Watts' life and work. Offering rich examination of as yet underexplored aspects of Watts' influence in 1960s counterculture, this volume offers unique application of Watts' thinking to contemporary issues and critically engages with controversies surrounding the commodification of Watts' ideas, his alleged misreading of Biblical texts, and his apparent distortion of Asian religions and spirituality. Featuring a broad range of international contributors and bringing Watts' ideas squarely into the contemporary context, the text provides a comprehensive, yet nuanced exploration of Watts' thinking on psychotherapy, Buddhism, language, music, and sexuality. This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of psychotherapy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of psychology more broadly. Those interested in Jungian psychotherapy, spirituality, and the self and social identity will also enjoy this volume.

The Proustian Mind (Hardcover): Anna Elsner, Thomas Stern The Proustian Mind (Hardcover)
Anna Elsner, Thomas Stern
R6,320 Discovery Miles 63 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Major reference source on the philosophy of Proust and the first major collection of its kind Organised into seven clear sections, examining the incredible range of Proust's work from a philosophical standpoint The Routledge Philosophical Minds series has established itself as the leading handbook series of its kind, far more comprehensive and wide-ranging than the Cambridge Companions or Oxford Handbooks

Consciousness in Flesh - An Unapologetic Phenomenological Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Yochai Ataria Consciousness in Flesh - An Unapologetic Phenomenological Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Yochai Ataria
R3,363 Discovery Miles 33 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an uncompromising and unapologetic phenomenological study of altered states of consciousness in an attempt to understand the structure of human consciousness. Drawing on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, it sets out to decipher the inextricable link between consciousness, body, and world. This link will be established through the presentation of in-depth phenomenological research conducted with former prisoners of war (POWs) and senior meditators. Focusing on two such disparate groups improves our understanding of the nature of the subjective experience in extreme situations - when our sense of boundary is rigid and we are disconnected both from the body and the world (POWs); and when our sense of boundary is fluid and we feel unified with the world (meditators). Based on empirical-phenomenological research, this book will explain how the body that is from the outset thrown into the intersubjective world shapes the structure of consciousness.

Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism - Essays on the Later Philosophy (Hardcover): Marie McGinn Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism - Essays on the Later Philosophy (Hardcover)
Marie McGinn
R2,346 Discovery Miles 23 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Things We Mean (Hardcover): Stephen Schiffer The Things We Mean (Hardcover)
Stephen Schiffer
R4,374 R1,808 Discovery Miles 18 080 Save R2,566 (59%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Stephen Schiffer presents a groundbreaking account of meaning and belief, and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems regarding language, mind, knowledge, and ontology. He introduces the new doctrine of 'pleonastic propositions' to explain what the things we mean and believe
are. He discusses the relation between semantic and psychological facts, on the one hand, and physical facts, on the other; vagueness and indeterminacy; moral truth; conditionals; and the role of propositional content in information acquisition and explanation. This radical new treatment of meaning
will command the attention of everyone who works on fundamental questions about language, and will attract much interest from other areas of philosophy.

The Unity of Consciousness - Binding, Integration, and Dissociation (Hardcover, New): Axel Cleeremans The Unity of Consciousness - Binding, Integration, and Dissociation (Hardcover, New)
Axel Cleeremans; Chris Frith
R2,839 R2,538 Discovery Miles 25 380 Save R301 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Consciousness has many elements, from sensory experiences such as vision, audition, and bodily sensation, to nonsensory aspects such as volition, emotion, memory, and thought. The apparent unity of these elements is striking; all are presented to us as experiences of a single subject, and all seem to be contained within a unified field of experience. But this apparent unity raises many questions. How do diverse systems in the brain co-operate to produce a unified experience? Are there conditions under which this unity breaks down? Is conscious experience really unified at all?

In recent years, these questions have been addressed by researchers in many fields, including, neurophysiologists and computational modellers, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. With chapters from some of the leading thinkers on consciousness, this is a thought-provoking book that attempts to answer some of the big questions.

Contributors include - Chris Frith, David Chalmers, Guilio Tononi, Anne Treisman, Andrew Young, Sydney Shoemaker, Glyn Humphreys, Rodney Cotterill, Zoltan Dienes, Susan Hurley, Randall O'Reilly, Andreas Engel, Pierre Perruchet, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, and Francisco Varela.

Ambivalence - A Philosophical Exploration (Hardcover): Hili Razinsky Ambivalence - A Philosophical Exploration (Hardcover)
Hili Razinsky
R3,533 Discovery Miles 35 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ambivalence (as in practical conflicts, moral dilemmas, conflicting beliefs, and mixed feelings) is a central phenomenon of human life. Yet ambivalence is incompatible with entrenched philosophical conceptions of personhood, judgement, and action, and is denied or marginalised by thinkers of diverse concerns. This book takes a radical new stance, bringing the study of core philosophical issues together with that of ambivalence. The book proposes new accounts in several areas - including subjectivity, consciousness, rationality, and value - while elucidating a wide range of phenomena expressive of ambivalence, from emotional ambivalence to self-deception. The book rejects the view that ambivalence makes a person divided, showing that our tension-fraught attitudes are profoundly unitary. Ambivalence is not tantamount to confusion or to paralysis: it is always basically rational, and often creative, active, and perceptive as well. The book develops themes from Wittgenstein, Davidson, Sartre, and Freud. It engages with contemporary debates in Analytic Philosophy in addition to work ranging from Aristotle to Cultural Studies and Empirical Psychology, and considers a rich set of examples from daily life and literature.

A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism (Hardcover): Jennifer  Cole Wright A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism (Hardcover)
Jennifer Cole Wright
R4,022 Discovery Miles 40 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism is a thoroughly researched interdisciplinary exploration of the critical role metaethical beliefs play in the way morality functions. Whether people are "moral objectivists" or not is something that deserves much more empirical attention than it has thus far received, not only because it bears upon philosophical claims but also because it is a critical piece of the puzzle of human morality. This book aims to facilitate incorporating the study of metaethical beliefs into existing research programs by providing a roadmap through the theoretical and empirical landscape as it currently exists and evaluating the methodological approaches used thus far. In doing so, it summarizes the key findings-both in terms of metaethical beliefs and their correlates, causes, and consequences-that have emerged, and explores the value of this area of study for anyone interested in the development, function, causes, and/or consequences of morality. A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism offers a helpful guide to social scientists interested in joining this thriving new area of research. It is a valuable resource for upper level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in moral psychology, theoretical psychology, experimental philosophy, metaethics, and philosophy of the mind.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Experimental Philosophy - Volume 2
Joshua Knobe, Shaun Nichols Hardcover R4,090 Discovery Miles 40 900
Raw Feeling - A Philosophical Account of…
Robert Kirk Hardcover R3,822 Discovery Miles 38 220
Montesquieu and the Spirit of Rome
Nathaniel K. Gilmore Paperback R2,620 Discovery Miles 26 200
From Metaphysics to Ethics - A Defence…
Frank Jackson Hardcover R3,466 Discovery Miles 34 660
The Book of Minds - How to Understand…
Philip Ball Paperback R330 R298 Discovery Miles 2 980
The Character of Consciousness
David J. Chalmers Hardcover R4,404 Discovery Miles 44 040
The Journey - A Big Panda And Tiny…
James Norbury Hardcover R430 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880
Live for Joy
Anne Scottlin Hardcover R989 Discovery Miles 9 890
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive…
Daniel Reisberg Hardcover R9,504 Discovery Miles 95 040
Dynamo - Energize Your Purpose!
Jonah Jeremiah Hardcover R692 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500

 

Partners