Author: Kerin MD, Robert Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Almost seven billion people roam the earth. Although we have different beliefs, lifestyles and physical characteristics, there are patterns of behavior that we all share. We also share the same buil...
Author: Russell, Bertrand Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of Russell's most important and interesting books which reconciles the materialistic tendency of psychology with the anti-materialistic tendency of physics.
Author: Goldberg, Sanford C. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sanford Goldberg argues that a proper account of the communication of knowledge through speech has anti-individualistic implications for both epistemology and the philosophy of mind and language. In P...
Author: Warwick, Kevin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.' - Nick Smith, Engineering and Tech...
Author: Warwick, Kevin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.' - Nick Smith, Engineering and Tech...
Author: Shusterman,Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argue...
Author: Cilliers, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Complexity and Postmodernism is an exciting and an original book that should be read by anyone interested in gaining a fresh understanding of complexity, postmodernism and connectionism.
Author: Cilliers, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P><i>Complexity and Postmodernism</i> explores the notion of complexity in the light of contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science. The book integrates insights from comp...
Author: Hill, Christopher S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book presents a novel and comprehensive theory of consciousness. The initial chapter distinguishes six main forms of consciousness and sketches an account of each one. Later chapters focus on phe...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception.' These famous words of David Hume, on his inability to perceive the self, set the stage ...
Author: Esfeld, Michael / Sachse, Christian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism. It argues that it is wrong-headed to conceive an opp...
Author: N/A Publisher: Continuum Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From new questions concerning qualia, representation, embodiment and cognition to fresh thinking about the long-standing problems of physicalism, dualism, personal identity and mental causation, this ...
Author: Korta, Kepa / Perry, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language combines wi...
Description: In this passionate philosophical memoir, Kimerer LaMothe unfolds an earth-friendly vision of what love can be. Moving to a farm after years spent teaching and writing at Harvard University, LaMothe fa...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Foucault and the Government of Disability is the first book-length investigation of the relevance and importance of the ideas of Michel Foucault to the field of disability studies-and vice versa. Over...
Author: Chesnut, Glenn F. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book takes us on a journey through three thousand years of history, showing us men and women searching for God and finding the answers to their quest in an amazingly diverse variety of life exper...
Author: de Strakosch, John Publisher: OPA Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Once in a while a gentle breeze rustles the branches of a tree . . . and you listen because it has something to say. Healing Sword may be one of today's gentle breezes. Certainly, it will take you on ...
Author: Cooper, Ron Publisher: Bancroft Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Barely adequate philosophy professor Legare Hume has a mind-body problem. No matter how far he goes, no matter how hard he thinks, he can't escape the world he lives in. On the run from his wife Tally...
Author: Keller, Pierre Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book Pierre Keller examines the distinctive contributions, and the respective limitations, of Husserl's and Heidegger's approach to fundamental elements of human experience. He shows how their...
Author: Melnick, Arthur Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Melnick explains the "third status" of the self by identifying it with intellectual action that does not arise in the progression of attending (and so is not appearance), but accompanies and unifies i...
Author: Melnick, Arthur Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The self for Kant is something real, and yet is neither appearance nor thing in itself, but rather has some third status. Appearances for Kant arise in space and time where these are respectively form...
Author: Shepherdson, Charles Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of ...
Author: Broad, C D Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book, first published in 1962, is based on a series of lectures first given at Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960, dealing with 'psychical research' - i.e. the scientific investigation of...
Author: Sullivan, Shannon Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Engaging the pragmatism of John Dewey, as well as the work of various feminist, genealogical, and phenomenological philosophers, Shannon Sullivan presents an account of corporeal existence as transact...
Author: Roberts, Daniel Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lost Works tells the story a man who once lived and is still alive, seeking to share his poetry, art, stories, creativity, thought, and science with the world. With a strong grounding in physics, Dan...
Author: Pettit, Philip Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense ...
Author: La Mettrie, Julien Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is not enough for a wise man to study nature and truth; he should dare state truth for the benefit of the few who are willing and able to think. As for the rest, who are voluntarily slaves of preju...
Description: Folks! How to remain fit & cope up with modern life Mantras for the working women ! For the urban women, keeping a healthy body is essential, yet it is not enough. Each one of us knows of people who ...
Author: Eichman, Dawn Publisher: FriesenPress Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "As we navigate challenging times on this planet, and as women are heeding the call to reclaim their magnificence and personal power, a book dedicated solely for these purposes has been much needed. ...
Author: Atkins, Kim Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is part of the growing field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics--approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions an...
Author: Churchland,Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Churchland explores the unfolding impact of the several empirical sciences of the mind, especially cognitive neurobiology and computational neuroscience on a variety of traditional issues central to t...
Author: Chomsky,Noam Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a series of penet...
Author: Aristotle, Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a very good book if you are interested in learning more about dreams and the subconscious. According to Aristotle a dream is a continuation of thought during sleep while the body rests. Aristo...
Author: Goldie, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy. Scan any personal ads page and it's clear that to get a life you need a personality first. It is also a notion with a long and often bizarre histor...
Author: Aristotle, Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristotle wrote: "There is nothing in the in...
Author: Hopp, Walter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a provocative, clear and rigorously argued account of the nature of perception and its role in the production of knowledge. Walter Hopp argues that perceptual experiences do not have ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Perspectives on Embodiment" offers multiple ways of conceptualizing human corporeality. These essays collectively defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in...
Author: Carruthers, Peter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can phenomenal consciousness exist as an integral part of a physical universe? How can the technicolour phenomenology of our inner lives be created out of the complex neural activities of our brai...
Author: Sokolowski,Robert Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understa...
Author: Searle,John R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John R. Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three areas of philosophy: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of society. This volume gathers together in access...
Author: Jaworski, William Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Philosophy of Mind introduces readers to one of the liveliest fields in contemporary philosophy by discussing mind-body problems and the various solutions to them. It provides a detailed yet balanced ...
Description: What do angels think about? Is God a deceiver? How important is happiness? Might zombies exist? Do I exist? Can I survive death? In Philosophy of the Mind Made Easy Deborah Wells considers some of the...
Author: Velleman,J. David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the distinguished philosopher J. David Velleman. Although each of the essays was written as an independent pie...
Author: Mele, Alfred R. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Self-deception raises complex questions about the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. In this book, Alfred Mele addresses four of the most critical of these questions: What is it to ...
