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A fascinating introduction to social justice by one of the most
effective teachers and preachers in the English-speaking world.
Ethology, or how animals relate to their environments, is currently
enjoying increased academic attention. A prominent figure in this
scholarship is Gilles Deleuze and yet, the significance of his
relational metaphysics to ethology has still not been scrutinised.
Jason Cullen's book is the first text to analyse Deleuze's
philosophical ethology and he prioritises the theorist's
examination of how beings relate to each other. For Cullen,
Deleuze's Cinema books are integral to this investigation and he
highlights how they expose a key Deleuzian theme: that beings are
fundamentally continuous with each other. In light of this
continuity then, Cullen reveals that how beings understand each
other shapes them and allows them to transform their shared worlds.
Since the publication of Paul J. Olscamp's The Moral philosophy of
George Berkeley (1970), research has focused on Berkeley's theory
of immaterialism as the defining element of his thinking. New
readings of his work gathered in this volume position immaterialism
as a component of a much broader, overarching apologetic project,
which is highly pragmatic in nature. Through close examinations of
Berkeley's writings on key political, economic, social, moral and
ethical debates, leading experts demonstrate that his writings are
not simply theoretical but also bound to a practical concern with
the well-being of humanity. The volume opens with nuanced analyses
of Berkeley's utilitarianism, which contributors position more
precisely as a theological utilitarianism, a facet of natural law
and a theory with a distinctly pragmatic basis. This doctrine is
reconsidered in the context of Berkeley's moral philosophy, with
contributors highlighting the implications of free will for the
evaluation of personal (or divine) responsibility for one's
actions. Berkeley's concept of desire is reconfigured as a virtue,
when channelled towards the common good of society. Contributors
close by reassessing Berkeley's political and economic thought and
uncover its practical dimension, where individualism is sacrificed
for the greater, national interest. The George Berkeley to emerge
from this book is a philosopher deeply concerned with the
political, economic and social problems of his time, and whose
writings proposed practical and not simply theoretical solutions to
the challenges facing Britain in the eighteenth century.
This book explores how predictive processing, which argues that our
brains are constantly generating and updating hypotheses about our
external conditions, sheds new light on the nature of the mind. It
shows how it is similar to and expands other theoretical approaches
that emphasize the active role of the mind and its dynamic
function. Offering a complete guide to the philosophical and
empirical implications of predictive processing, contributors bring
perspectives from philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology.
Together, they explore the many philosophical applications of
predictive processing and its exciting potential across mental
health, cognitive science, neuroscience, and robotics. Presenting
an extensive and balanced overview of the subject, The Philosophy
and Science of Predictive Processing is a landmark volume within
philosophy of mind.
Rear-view mirrors are not normal scientific equipment, nor are
philosophers all that keen to recall a partly embarrassing past.
But looking back can cure a self-induced narrowing of the modern
scientific mind and help us to renew a sense of where, if anywhere,
we might feel we belong in the world. Today, a centuries-long
belief in the primacy of a first-personal perspective has given way
to an opposite view that what passes through the conscious mind has
little to do with who we are and what we are doing. A lifelong
campaigner for the first-personal perspective, Alastair Hannay
presents here a powerful and historically framed case for restoring
faith in its status as a provider of important truths about
ourselves.
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In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a
novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional
perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and
topoi, originating in Aristotelian rhetoric and dialectic, and
integrates these in a formal dialogue semantic account using TTR, a
type theory with records. Argumentation analysis and formal
approaches to reasoning often focus the logical validity of
arguments on inferences made in discourse from a god's-eye
perspective. In contrast, Breitholtz's account emphasises the
individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and
acceptability of their reasoning in context. This provides an
analysis of interactions where interlocutors have access to
different topoi and therefore make different inferences.
What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or
perform popular music? The Unconscious - a much misunderstood
concept from philosophy and psychology - works through human
subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we
engage with. Through a new collaboration between music theorist and
philosopher, Smith and Overy present the long history of the
unconscious and its related concepts, working systematically
through philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche,
psychoanalysts such as Freud and Lacan, to theorists such as
Deleuze and Kristeva. The theories offered are vital to follow the
psychological complexity of popular music, demonstrated through
close readings of individual songs, albums, artists, genres, and
popular music practices. Among countless artists, Listening to the
Unconscious draws from Prince to Sufjan Stevens, from Robyn to Xiu
Xiu, from Joanna Newsom to Arcade Fire, from PJ Harvey to LCD Sound
System, each of whom offer exciting inroads into the fascinating
worlds of our unconscious musical minds. And in return, theories of
the unconscious can perhaps takes us deeper into the heart of
popular music.
This volume brings together an unprecedented compilation of papers
from esteemed Russian psychophysiologists, cognitive scientists,
and neuroscientists. The contributors explain the disciplinary
trajectories and theoretical foundations inspiring their
experimental research, providing important intellectual contexts.
Commentaries by editors Chris Forsythe and Gabriel Radvansky
discuss the relationships between Russian, European, and American
developments in cognitive science and neuroscience. This volume
provides a detailed exposition of the distinctively Russian
advances in neuropsychology and cognitive science from the late
nineteenth century to the present.
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