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Supersizing the Mind
Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
Av Andy Clark
Häftad, 2011
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451 kr
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When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind , Andy Clark argues that our thinking …
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality
Av Philip Goff
Inbunden, 2017
1419 kr
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A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is physicalism, the view that the world is fundamentally …
The Conscious Brain
How Attention Engenders Experience
Häftad, 2015
858 kr
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The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experience. Prinz's account of consciousness makes two main …
Seeing and Saying
The Language of Perception and the Representational View of Experience
Inbunden, 2018
1091 kr
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Imagine you are sitting at Starbuck glancing at the blue coffee mug in front of you. The mug is blue on the outside, white on the inside. It's large for a mug. And it's nearly full of freshly made coffee. In the envisaged case, you see all those aspects of the scene in front of you, but it remains …
The Epistemology of Non-Visual Perception
Av Dimitria Electra Gatzia, Berit Brogaard
Inbunden, 2020
1756 kr
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Most of the research on the epistemology of perception has focused on visual perception. This is hardly surprising given that most of our knowledge about the world is largely attributable to our visual experiences. The present volume is the first to instead focus on the epistemology of non-visual …
Perceptual Learning
The Flexibility of the Senses
Inbunden, 2019
1481 kr
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Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience. Philosophers have been discussing such cases for centuries, from the 14th-century Indian philosopher Vedanta Desika to the …
Combining Minds
How to Think about Composite Subjectivity
Av Luke Roelofs
Inbunden, 2019
1756 kr
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Combining Minds is about the idea of minds built up out of other minds, whether this is possible, and what it would mean if it were. Roelofs surveys many areas of philosophy and psychology, analysing and evaluating denials and affirmations of mental combination that have been made in regard to …
The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality
Inbunden, 2018
1683 kr
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Intentionality is the mind's ability to be "of," "about," or "directed" at things, or to "say" something. For example, a thought might "say" that grass is green or that Santa Claus is jolly, and a visual experience might be "of" a blue cup. While the existence of the phenomenon of intentionality is …
Feminist Philosophy of Mind
Av Maitra, Keya Maitra m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1179 kr
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This is the first collection of essays to focus on feminist philosophy of mind. It brings the theoretical insights from feminist philosophy to issues in philosophy of mind and vice versa. Feminist Philosophy of Mind thus promises to challenge and inform dominant theories in both of its parent …
Feminist Philosophy of Mind
Av Keya Maitra, Jennifer McWeeny
Häftad, 2022
520 kr
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This is the first collection of essays to focus on feminist philosophy of mind. It brings the theoretical insights from feminist philosophy to issues in philosophy of mind and vice versa. Feminist Philosophy of Mind thus promises to challenge and inform dominant theories in both of its parent …
The Varieties of Consciousness
Häftad, 2019
675 kr
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Recent work on consciousness has featured a number of debates on the existence and character of controversial types of phenomenal experience. Perhaps the best-known is the debate over the existence of a sui generis, irreducible cognitive phenomenology, a phenomenology proper to thought. Another …
The Conscious Mind
In Search of a Fundamental Theory
Inbunden, 1996
980 kr
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What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have …
Simulating Minds
The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
Inbunden, 2006
830 kr
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People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And what are the dimensions of our grasp of the …
Identifying the Mind
Selected Papers of U.T. Place
Av U. T. Place, George Graham m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1243 kr
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This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind. The collection focuses on Place's philosophy of mind and his contributions to neighboring issues in metaphysics and epistemology. It includes an autobiographical essay as well as a recent paper on the function and neural …
A Place for Consciousness
Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World
Av Gregg H. Rosenberg, David J. Chalmers
Inbunden, 2004
1894 kr
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What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there even be a credible alternative? In A Place for Consciousness, Rosenberg addresses the causal role of consciousness in the world from an anti-physicalist perspective. Introducing a new paradigm called …
Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge
New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism
Av Torin Alter, Sven Walter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
840 kr
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Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for the view that the mind is physical. This volume collects thirteen new papers on this problem by leading philosophers including Torin Alter, Ned Block, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, John Hawthorne, Frank Jackson, Janet Levin, …
Three Faces of Desire
Av Timothy Schroeder, David J. Chalmers
Inbunden, 2004
1302 kr
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Desires lead to actions, influence feelings, and determine what counts as a reward. Recent empirical evidence shows that these three aspects of desire stem from a common biological origin. Informed by contemporary science as much as by the philosophical tradition, Three Faces of Desire reveals this …
Purple Haze
The Puzzle of Consciousness
Häftad, 2004
504 kr
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Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non-conscious, physical events. On the other hand, we cannot explain how physical phenomena give rise to conscious …
What Are We?
A Study in Personal Ontology
Inbunden, 2007
1481 kr
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From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial or temporal parts of organisms, bundles of perceptions, or what have you. The result of this neglect has been …
The Contents of Visual Experience
Inbunden, 2011
1646 kr
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What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all …
Ignorance and Imagination
The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness
Inbunden, 2006
2215 kr
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Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world. The correct response to the problem, Stoljar argues, is not to posit a realm of experience …
Gut Reactions
A Perceptual Theory of Emotion
Häftad, 2006
732 kr
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Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions of changes in the body. This thesis, pioneered by William James and resuscitated by Antonio Damasio, has been widely criticized for failing to acknowledge that emotions are meaningful insofar as they represent …
The Conscious Brain
Av Jesse Prinz
Inbunden, 2012
1170 kr
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Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experience. In the first part of the book, Prinz argues that consciousness always arises at a particular stage of perceptual processing, the intermediate …
Beyond Reduction
Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science
Av Steven Horst
Inbunden, 2007
1593 kr
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Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics. Yet there are features of the mind consciousness, intentionality, normativity that do not seem to be reducible to physics or neuroscience. This explanatory gap between mind and brain has thus …
Supersizing the Mind
Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
Av Andy Clark
Inbunden, 2008
1985 kr
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Studies of mind, thought and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and cognitive science, this tendency has been identified and, increasingly, resisted. The result is a plethora of work on what …
Thinking Without Words
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
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Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the environment. But this theorizing has …
Simulating Minds
The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
Häftad, 2008
541 kr
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People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And what are the dimensions of our grasp of the …
Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge
New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism
Häftad, 2008
636 kr
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What is the nature of consciousness? How is consciousness related to brain processes? This volume collects thirteen new papers on these topics: twelve by leading and respected philosophers and one by a leading color-vision scientist. All focus on consciousness in the "phenomenal" sense: on what …
Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion
Av William Fish
Inbunden, 2009
1557 kr
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The idea of a disjunctive theory of visual experiences first found expression in J.M. Hinton's pioneering 1973 book Experiences. In the first monograph in this exciting area since then, William Fish develops a comprehensive disjunctive theory, incorporating detailed accounts of the three core kinds …
Attention Is Cognitive Unison
An Essay in Philosophical Psychology
Inbunden, 2011
1646 kr
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Some psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the processes that constitute them. Others cannot be explained in that way. In ATTENTION IS COGNITIVE UNISON Christopher Mole gives a precise account of the metaphysical difference that divides these two categories and …
