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Medvetandets återkomst handlar om den djupaste av alla existentiella frågor: Hur kommer det sig att vi människor kan uppleva våra liv över huvud taget? Varför har vi en inre värld? I slutet av 1990-talet satsade hjärnforskaren Christof Koch en låd...

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Begreppet identitet används numera flitigt inom samhällsvetenskapen. Ändå förblir det både oklart och mångtydigt. På ett levande sätt blottlägger och problematiserar "Identitet - människans gåtfulla porträtt" den mänskliga identitetens anatomi...

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How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these question...

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Written by eminent psychologist Bernard J. Baars, In the Theater of Consciousness brings us to the frontlines of the consciousness debate, offering the general reader a fascinating overview of how top scientists currently understand the processes ...

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Personligheten är inte objektivt mätbar, hon kan inte helt fångas in i ett vetenskapligt system. Bakom varje teori upptäcker vi individen, den människa som allt detta händer med. Här finner vi de djupaste och mest fundamentala frågorna om kärleken...

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Recent debates in philosophy of mind have resulted in an impasse, which lead to a renaissance of panpsychism as a viable alternative. Panpsychism is the thesis that mental being is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the universe. This book co...

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"The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the College de France, where Foucault's candid and wide-ranging lectures influenced groundbreaking works like "The History of Sexuali...

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A yogi's guide to joy. Thought leader and visionary presents techniques to achieve absolute well-being.

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Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and easy-to-use, The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences is an indispensable resource for all who wish to find out about theories, concepts, methods, and research findings in this rapidl...

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Medvetandet återkomst är en berättelse om den djupaste av alla existentiella frågor: Hur kommer det sig att vi människor kan uppleva något alls, varför är vi inte zombier? I slutet av 1990-talet slog filosofen David Chalmers och hjärnforskaren Chr...

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Ranging across both standard philosophical territory and the landscape of cutting-edge cognitive science, Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Second Edition, is a vivid and engaging introduction to key issues, researc...

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The quintessential guide to yoga assisting and hands-on teaching, introducing the art and the practice of providing yoga assists to yoga students. An invaluable resource for all yoga teachers and enthusiasts.

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A successor to the acclaimed 'Music and Emotion', The Handbook of Music and Emotion provides comprehensive coverage of the field, in all its breadth and depth. As well as summarizing what is currently known about music and emotion, it will also st...

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Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The 'last great mystery of science', consciousness is a topic that was banned from serious research for most of the last century, but is now...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A dazzling book . . . the new Stephen Hawking' - Sunday Times 'Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book' - John Banville The bestselling author of Seven Brief ...

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Hur blev vi medvetna varelser? Denna fråga har gäckat psykologer, fysiker, poeter och filosofer i århundraden. Hur har människans hjärna utvecklat dess unika förmåga till att skapa, drömma och förklara? Darwins lärjungar har länge försökt förklara...

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A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world 'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether o...

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In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have ...

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The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of ""Simulacra et Simulation"" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving a...

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»Arbetet innefattar tre tematiskt och metodiskt strikt avgränsade dela r. Den första, som tar upp minnet och minnesfenomenen, präglas av en f enomenologi i den husserlska bemärkelsen av termen. Den andra, som ägn as historien, faller under en hist...

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The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely shared among the world's great cultural traditions. Mo...

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Fredrik Svenaeus' book is a delight to read. Not only does he exhibit keen understanding of a wide range of topics and figures in both medicine and philosophy, but he manages to bring them together in an innovative manner that convincingly demonst...

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"The Book of Secrets" invites us to experience and experiment with everyday life through the awareness of our senses. Osho discusses 112 individual meditation techniques drawn from ancient texts - meditations that focus on consciousness ...

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Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide is the most accessible introduction to philosophy of mind available. Specifically aimed at students with no background knowledge of the subject, Ravenscroft brings together the basic concepts and major theori...

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Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This anthology of his major work contains a foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson.

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The Future of the Ancient Worldsheds new light on the evolution of consciousness from antiquity to modern times. The twelve essays in this book examine developments in human consciousness over the past five thousand years that most history books d...

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According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing p...

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In Mind and Cosmos, Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodies. If materialism cannot accommodate ...

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In The Sleepwalkers and The Act of Creation Arthur Koestler provided pioneering studies of scientific discovery and artistic inspiration, the twin pinnacles of human achievement. The Ghost in the Machine looks at the dark side of the coin: our ter...

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This is a comprehensive collection of readings in the philosophy of mind, ranging from Descartes to the leading edge of the discipline. Extensive selections cover foundations, the nature of consciousness, and the nature of mental content.

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