Philosophy of mind (204)

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:This book unites research in philosophy and cognitive science with cultural history to re-examine memory in early modern religious practices. Offering an ecological approach to memory and culture, it argues that models derived from Extended Mind and ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:This book argues that thinking is bounded by neither the brain nor the skin of an organism. Cognitive systems function through integration of neural and bodily functions with the functions of representational vehicles. The integrationist position off...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book is about the interweaving between cognitive penetrability and the epistemic role of the two stages of perception, namely early and late vision, in justifying perceptual beliefs. It examines the impact of the epistemic role of perception in ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:In this book, the author develops a new form of structural realism and deals with the problem of representation. The work combines two distinguished developments of the Semantic View of Theories, namely Structural Realism (SR), a flourishing theory f...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Having once said that “Colours spur us to philosophize”, the theme of colour was one to which Wittgenstein returned cons...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Comedy, Seriously provides a philosophical interpretation of comedy and argues that comedy displays a particular kind of rationality that reflects philosophical thinking. In particular, that comedy is defined not so much by laughter or jokes, but rat...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:It is often thought that consciousness has a qualitative dimension that cannot be tracked by science. Recently, however, some philosophers have argued that this worry stems not from an elusive feature of the mind, but from the special nature of the c...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This volume offers an introduction to consciousness research within philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on the history of ideas and core concepts. The book begins by examining consciousness a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This Brief introduces two empirically grounded models of situated mental phenomena: contextual social cognition (the collection of psychological processes underlying context-dependent social behavior) and action-language coupling (the integration of ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life – usually edited out of traditional research ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Robert Hettlage umreißt in seinem Essential, was es mit dem „großen“, vernunftgesteuerten Glück auf sich hat. Dass alle Menschen nach dem Glück streben, gilt als selbstverständlich. Macht, Schönheit, Reichtum und Anerkennung stehen zwar als Ziele hoc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Der Autor sucht in diesem Buch eine endgültige Antwort auf die bislang als offen geltende metaethische Frage nach der Begründbarkeit normativer Ethik zu geben. Im Zentrum steht die Absicht, die These der Begründbarkeit der Ethik als selbstkontradikto...