Blackwell Online - Books : Philosophy : Mind & Body

Gut Feelings

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Short Cuts to Better Decision Making

By Gerd Gigerenzer

$16.36 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

Narrative Identity and Moral Identity

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Practical Perspective

By Kim Atkins

$95.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Part of the field of practical approaches to philosophical questions relating to identity, agency and ethics - approaches which work across continental and analytical traditions and which the author justifies through an explication of how the structures of human embodiment necessitate a narrative model of selfhood, understanding, and ethics.

I am a Strange Loop

07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Douglas R. Hofstadter

$16.95 07 Aug 2008 Paperback The Perseus Books Group

Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? This title argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the 'strange loop' - a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains.

Deadly Vices

07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gabriele Taylor

$22.95 07 Aug 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Gabriele Taylor presents a philosophical investigation of the 'ordinary' vices traditionally seen as 'death to the soul': sloth, envy, avarice, pride, anger, lust, and gluttony. In the course of a richly detailed discussion of individual and interrelated vices she shows why these 'deadly sins' are correctly so named and grouped together.

Gesundheit Und Medizin Im Interdisziplinaren Diskurs

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kingreen, Thorsten Buchholz, Wolfgang Laux, Bernhard

$99.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Springer

Das Buch a žGesundheit und Medizin im interdisziplinAren Diskurs" erAffnet die gleichnamige Schriftenreihe und bildet deren programmatische Einleitung. In acht BeitrAgen nAhern sich hochrangige Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher fachlicher Herkunft dem Thema a žGesundheit und Medizin": philosophisch, theologisch, ethisch, Akonomisch, juristisch und medizinisch.

Sie loten die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Gesundheit und Medizin aus und beleuchten die politischen, Akonomischen und juristischen Herausforderungen. Anhand brisanter Beispiele wie der Gesundheitsreform oder der Sterbehilfe zeigen die Autoren auf, wie medizinische Herausforderungen verbunden sind mit Fragestellungen Akonomischer Effizienz, juristischer Regelbarkeit, persAnlicher Lebenseinstellung und ethischer Vertretbarkeit.

Subjectivity and Being Somebody

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Human Identity and Neuroethics

By Grant Gillett

$80.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Imprint Academic

Uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. This book examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity as emergent from our neurobiological constitution.

Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Human Identity and Neuroethics

By Gillett, Grant

$34.90 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Imprint Academic

The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By King-Tak Ip

$119.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer

Psychology and Philosophy

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Inquiries into the Soul from Late Scholasticism to Contemporary Thought

By Sara Heinamaa, Martina Reuter

$198.38 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market

By Tao Po-Wah Lai, Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah, Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah, J.

$129.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer

This volume provides a unique perspective on the market reforms currently taking place in Chinese health care. The authors come to grips with the changes taking place in Chinese health care and its effect on the traditional doctor-patient relationship, but also its positive effects on the availability and quality of health care particularly in urban areas. In doing so the various authors wrestle with moral, political and social issues deeply ingrained in Chinese culture as well as the perceived practical and moral difficulties associated with the change to a market oriented economy especially in area of health care. This volume should be of particular interest to bioethicists, those interested in contemporary Chinese philosophy, and of course those working in health care policy, Chinese policy, comparative health care policy, or any combination thereof.

Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

By Ferrari, Michel Potworowski, Georges

$129.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Springer

Emphasizing on whether wisdom can be taught, this book considers how people at different times and places have engaged the age-old question of how we can learn to live a good life, and what that life is like. It also considers Greek and Confucian philosophy, Christian and Buddhist religion, and scientific approaches to the study of wisdom.

The Character of Consciousness

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Chalmers, David J.

$26.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press, USA

Phenomenology of the Human Person

31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert Sokolowski

$85.00 31 Jul 2008 Hardback Cambridge University Press

Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth.

Philosophy of Mind

25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Hawthorne

$39.95 25 Jul 2008 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Money and the Way of Wisdom

21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Insights from the Book of Proverbs

By Timothy J. Sandoval

$16.99 21 Jul 2008 Paperback Jewish Lights Publishing

Although they were written some 2,500 years ago, the pithy observations from the book of Proverbs about life and money??????"In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty"??????still ring true today. But these pearls of wisdom are far more than one-dimensional pieces of folksy advice. Taken together, they form a coherent system of language and metaphor that point to a much more profound understanding of the nature of wealth in our lives, and its connection to committing first to a life of wisdom. Join Timothy J. Sandoval as he guides you through key texts from Proverbs, explaining their historical setting, their meaning, and the impact their profound teachings can have on our financial lives today as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.

The Will (v. 1)

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Brian O'Shaughnessy

$85.00 17 Jul 2008 Hardback Cambridge University Press

O'Shaughnessy investigates bodily action in a new edition of this classic work of analytical philosophy.

The Will (v. 1)

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Brian O'Shaughnessy

$34.99 17 Jul 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

O'Shaughnessy investigates bodily action in a new edition of this classic work of analytical philosophy.

Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth

11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics and Epistemology

By Andrew Gluck

$15.00 11 Jul 2008 Paperback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

The question of the relationship between mind and body as posed by Descartes, Spinoza, and others remains a fundamental debate for philosophers. In "Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth," Andrew Gluck constructs a pluralistic response to the work of neurologist Antonio Damasio. Gluck critiques the neutral monistic assertions found in "Descartes' Error "and "Looking for Spinoza" from a philosophical perspective, advocating an adaptive theory--physical monism in the natural sciences, dualism in the social sciences, and neutral monism in aesthetics. Gluck's work is a significant and refreshing take on a historical debate.

Our Knowledge of the Internal World

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert C. Stalnaker

$36.38 03 Jul 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Robert Stalnaker opposes the traditional view that knowledge of one's own current thoughts and feelings is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge. He argues that we can understand our knowledge of our thoughts and feelings only by viewing ourselves from the outside, by seeing our inner lives as features of the world as it is in itself.

The Future of Post-human Unconsciousness

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Preface to a New Theory of Anomalous Experience

By Peter Baofu

$63.68 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Focuses on the relationship between the nature of unconsciousness and the controversial aspects of anomalous experience. This book is organized into four main parts, that is, in relation to nature, the mind, culture, and society - together with the introductory and concluding chapters.

Altering Nature: Volume II: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lustig, Andrew B.

$169.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer London

Altering Nature (v. 1)

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lustig, Andrew B.

$169.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

This volume analyzes concepts of nature and a ~the naturala (TM) in discussions of biotechnology with four broad concerns in mind. First, it surveys the recent history of biotechnology debates and identifies characteristic reactions and approaches to new biotechnological developments that invoke appeals to nature. Second, it analyzes concepts of nature and a ~the naturala (TM) as they are invoked and interpreted in five characteristic modes of discourse; viz., spirituality and religion, philosophy, science and medicine, law and economics, and aesthetics. Third, it identifies a core cluster of ontological, epistemological, moral, and aesthetic questions that arise in conversations about nature as normative. Fourth, it highlights the findings of each of the five chapters, identifies areas of contrast and commonality, and identifies areas for further research.

China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market

By Tao Po-Wah Lai, Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah, Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah, J.

$129.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer

Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

By Ferrari, Michel Potworowski, Georges

$129.00 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Springer

Enemy, Cripple & Beggar: Shadows in the Hero's Path

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shalit, Erel

$19.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Fisher King Press

In Shadows in the Hero's Path: the Enemy, the Cripple, and the Beggar, Erel Shalit provides new thoughts and views on the concepts of Hero and Shadow. From a Jungian perspective, this forthcoming Fisher King Press publication will elaborate on mythological and psychological images. Myths and fairy tales explored include Perseus and Andersen's The Cripple. You'll also enjoy the psychological deciphering of Biblical stories such as Amalek -The Wicked Warrior, Samson - The Impoverished Sun, and Jacob & the Divine Adversary. With the recent discovery of The Gospel of Judas, Dr. Shalit also delves into the symbolic relationship between Jesus and Judas Iscariot to illustrate the hero-function's inevitable need of a shadow. Clinical material concerning a case of a powerful erotic counter-transference is also an integral part of this deeply insightful body of work.

Subjectivity and Suffering in American Culture: Possible Selves

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Parish, Steven M.

$74.95 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

This book explores the experience of suffering in order to shed light on the nature of the human self. Using an intimate life history approach, it examines ways people struggle to cope with experiences that can shatter their lives: a diagnosis of cancer, the death of a spouse, a parent's mental illness. The volume takes readers deep into private worlds of suffering in American culture, and invites reflection on what the subjectivity of suffering tells us about being human. Addressing universal themes in a way that fully recognizes the individuality of those who experience a personal crisis, Parish shows how individuals personalize the cultural and psychological resources in which they find their possible selves.

Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

By Cavell, Marcia

$33.00 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. How does a person become a subject, and what might stand in the way? To answer this question, Cavell brings together philosophy, neuroscience, studies in infant development, and psychoanalysis.

Mind as Machine

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A History of Cognitive Science

By Margaret Boden

$91.00 26 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Cognitive science is the project of understanding the mind by modelling its workings. Its development is one of the most remarkable and fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. Mind as Machine is a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.

Feelings of Being

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality

By Matthew Ratcliffe

$59.97 26 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Feelings of Being is the first philosophical account of the nature, role and variety of existential feelings in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. These include feelings of familiarity, unfamiliarity, estrangement, isolation, emptiness, belonging, etc. It will be valuable for all philosophers and psychiatrists interested in emotion.

Mind as Machine

19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A History of Cognitive Science

By Margaret Boden

$91.00 19 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth

13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics and Epistemology

By Andrew Gluck

$15.00 13 Jun 2008 Paperback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

Being for

05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism

By Mark Schroeder

$55.00 05 Jun 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Mark Schroeder explores the semantic commitments of metaethical expressivism, the heir to the noncognitivist theories of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare. He shows how to solve many of the open problems facing expressivism, but this only highlights further and deeper problems for the view. Expressivism, he argues, is coherent and interesting, but false.

Brainstorming

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Views and Interviews on the Mind

By Shaun Gallagher

$80.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Imprint Academic

An introduction to the study of the mind. It features topics ranging over consciousness, emotion, language, movement, free will, and moral responsibility. It is illustrated by extracts from the author's interviews with his scientist colleagues on the relation between the mind and the brain.

Brainstorming

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Views and Interviews on the Mind

By Shaun Gallagher

$34.90 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Imprint Academic

The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature Through the Practice of Presence

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Realizing Your True Nature Through the Practice of Presence

By Almaas, A. H.

$15.95 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Shambhala Publications

Shows readers how being present and aware in the moment leads to the discovery of our true nature. This book maintains that the relaxed condition of simply 'being yourself' allows us to be free from worries, attachments, feelings of inadequacy, preoccupation with goals, and efforts to eliminate experiences we don't want.

An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine: Humanizing Modern Medicine

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Humanizing Modern Medicine

By Marcum, James A.

$159.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer

China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market

By Tao Po-Wah Lai, Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah, Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah, J.

$129.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer

Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

By Ferrari, Michel Potworowski, Georges

$129.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Springer

Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Aho, James Alfred

$60.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Lexington Books

Distraction

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Young, Damon

$19.00 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Melbourne University

Exploring the nature of distraction, the popular philosophy surrounding it, and its role in modern life, this book surmises that distraction is often a matter of what one values. Written in a playful tone, this view analyzes important aspects of life, showing that technology, acquaintances, jobs, and addictions often waste time and energy. Through the history of popular philosophy, it is demonstrated that patient, sensitive, and thoughtful attention to the world suggests that the opposite of a life of distraction is one of grateful appreciation.

The Case for Qualia

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By E Wright

$36.00 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Mit Press

Presents philosophical and scientific defenses of Indirect Realism and counterarguments to the attacks of qualiaphobes. This book discusses color, heat, and the link between the external object and the internal representation.

The Case for Qualia

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By E Wright

$75.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback MIT Press Ltd

The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

By Moro, Andrea

$35.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Mit Press

Offers an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.This work discusses some speculative aspects of modern research in biolinguistics.

Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Widdershoven, Guy Hope, Tony McMillan, John

$59.95 01 Jun 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

Psychiatry presents a unique array of difficult ethical questions. A major challenge is to approach psychiatry in a way that does justice to the real ethical issues. This book show how ethics can engage more closely with the reality of psychiatric practice and how empirical methodologies from the social sciences can help foster this link.

Belief about the Self: A Defense of the Property Theory of Content

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Defense of the Property Theory of Content

By Feit, Neil

$65.00 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press, USA

Being for

29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism

By Mark Schroeder

$55.00 29 May 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth

16 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics and Epistemology

By Andrew Gluck

$15.00 16 May 2008 Paperback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

Lacan and the Limits of Language

15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Shepherdson

$24.00 15 May 2008 Paperback Fordham University Press

Weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. This book also aims to explore, beyond the strict limits of Lacanian theory, possible points of intersection between psychoanalysis and other domains, including questions of race, biology, and evolutionary theory.

Lacan and the Limits of Language

15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Shepherdson

$80.00 15 May 2008 Hardback Fordham University Press

Real Materialism

14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

and Other Essays

By Galen Strawson (Reading University and CUNY Graduate Center, New York)

$45.50 14 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Real Materialism is a collection of highly original essays on a set of related topics in philosophy of mind and metaphysics: consciousness and the mind-body problem; our knowledge of the world; the nature of the self or subject; free will and moral responsibility; the nature of thought and intentionality; causation and David Hume.

Real Materialism

14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

and Other Essays

By Galen Strawson

$118.30 14 May 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

By Carter, Matt

$90.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Edinburgh University Press

An introductory textbook to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Mind. This book introduces students to the philosophical issues of Artificial Intelligence in an engaging, coherent, and highly approachable manner. It also presents introductory material from the disciplines, which constitute Cognitive Science.

Austere Realism Austere Realism: Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology

By Horgan, Terry Horgan, Terence E. Potrc, Matja

$32.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Mit Press

Describes and defends a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position, asserting that the right ontology is minimal or austere, in that it excludes numerous common-sense posits, and that statements employing such posits are nonetheless true, when truth is understood to be semantic correctness under contextually operative semantic standards.

Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

By Cavell, Marcia

$33.00 01 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

Simulating Minds

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading

By Alvin L. Goldman

$20.00 01 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Thinking Without Words

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jose Luis Bermudez

$19.95 01 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Roger Teichmann

$81.90 24 Apr 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

The first major study of the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001), not only a friend and student of Wittgenstein's but also in her own right one of the most important philosophers of recent times.Teichmann presents a unified overview of her substantial oeuvre, in particular bringing out the interconnections among her ideas.

Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth

18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics and Epistemology

By Andrew Gluck

$15.00 18 Apr 2008 Paperback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

The Retreat of Reason

10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Dilemma in the Philosophy of Life

By Ingmar Persson

$45.00 10 Apr 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Ingmar Persson brings back to philosophy the ambition of offering a broad vision of the human condition. One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give people guidance about how to live their lives. The Retreat of Reason resumes this practical project but his conclusions are very different from those of the ancient Greeks.

A Theory of Political Obligation

10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society

By Margaret Gilbert (University of Connecticut)

$38.00 10 Apr 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the law tells me to do? She argues a provocative and compelling case in favour of citizens' obligations to the state, while examining how these can be squared with self-interest and other competing considerations.

Ignorance of Language

10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Devitt (City University of New York)

$38.00 10 Apr 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers.

Matter into Feeling

03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit

By Fred Alan Wolf

$14.95 03 Apr 2008 Paperback Moment Point Press Inc,US

In this follow-up to Mind into Matter, physicist and American-Book Award winning author Fred Alan Wolf once again bridges the gap between science and spirit and explores the transformation of physical matter into feeling. In Matter into Feeling, Wolf guides us through the conflicts and resistances we feel as physical beings-the everyday demands, addictions, successes, and failures we experience-and guides us into an understanding that being "stuck" is only a phase, one from which we can escape once we understand the origin and role of human feeling.

Truly Understood

03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christopher Peacocke

$60.00 03 Apr 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

What is it to be able to think about the material world, about oneself, and about other people? Christopher Peacocke argues that our concepts are to be explained in terms of the conditions in which they refer to aspects of the world. Reference and truth are fundamental in understanding.

The Kingdom of Infinite Space

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Fantastical Journey Around Your Head

By Raymond Tallis

$36.38 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Atlantic Books

Explores the range of activities that go on inside our heads, most of which are entirely beyond our control. This book takes readers on a voyage through various chambers of the head and brain. It also demonstrates that not only does consciousness not reside between our ears, but that our heads are infinitely cleverer than we are.

I Surf, Therefore I Am: A Philosophy of Surfing

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kreeft, Peter

$16.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback St. Augustine's Press

Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The New Biological Synthesis

By Barbieri, Marcello

$99.00 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Springer

Moral Psychology Today: Essays on Values, Rational Choice, and the Will

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on Values, Rational Choice, and the Will

By Chan, David K.

$169.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer

This volume is an edited collection of original papers on the theme of a oeValues, Rational Choice, and the Willa . The editor is a Stanford-trained moral philosopher, and the organizer of a conference held on April 1-3, 2004. The conference succeeded in bringing together a wide range of essays that dealt with most of the central questions of moral philosophy today, in both normative ethics and meta-ethics, theoretical and applied ethics, and especially in moral psychology, a broad area at the intersection of moral philosophy and philosophy of mind and action.

Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

By Ferrari, Michel Potworowski, Georges

$129.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer

The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition: Moral Arguments, Economic Reality, Social Analysis

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Moral Arguments, Economic Reality, Social Analysis

By Brakman, Sarah-Vaughan Fozard Weaver, Darlene

$169.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer

Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By K??rkk??inen, Pekka Knuuttila, Simo Karkkainen, Pekka

$179.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer London

Body Consciousness

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics

By Richard Shusterman

$85.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Cambridge University Press

Shusterman argues that improved body consciousness can relieve many problems and enhance knowledge, performance, and pleasure.

Body Consciousness

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics

By Richard Shusterman

$24.99 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

Shusterman argues that improved body consciousness can relieve many problems and enhance knowledge, performance, and pleasure.

Treasure Your Exceptions: The Science and Life of William Bateson

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cock, Alan G.

$59.95 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Springer

Our Knowledge of the Internal World

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert C. Stalnaker

$36.38 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Whose Body Is It Anyway?: Justice and the Integrity of the Person

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Justice and the Integrity of the Person

By Fabre, Cecile

$34.00 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

Do we have the right to deny others access to our body? What if this would harm those who need personal services or body parts from us? Cecile Fabre examines the impact that arguments for distributive justice have on the rights we have over ourselves, and on such contentious issues as organ sales, prostitution, and surrogate motherhood.

Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

By Cavell, Marcia

$33.00 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

Tracking Reason

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Proof, Consequence, and Truth

By Jody Azzouni

$25.46 01 Apr 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Ordinary people-mathematicians among them-grasp when they take something to follow (deductively) from something else. This is the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. This book investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues developed by logicians.

Sticks and Stones

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Philosophy of Insults

By Jerome Neu (Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz)

$29.95 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

The schoolyard chant "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is not really true. In reality, words have effects, and in the end the popular as well as standard legal distinctions between speech and conduct are as problematic as they are helpful. Indeed, the OED's first definition of insult is that of "attack" or "assault."

In Sticks and Stones Jerome Neu explores the nature and place of insult in our lives. How much should we put up with those who would put us down? Is to understand all to forgive all? What kind of injury is an insult? Is its infliction determined by the insulter or the insulted? What does it reveal of the character of each - and of the character of society and its conventions? What is its role in social and legal life (from play to jokes to ritual to war and from blasphemy to defamation to hate speech)? Why are some insults more effective than others?

Neu brings together a range of anecdotes and examples in answering these questions. He shows how notions of insult play into our ideas about character, honor, gender, the nature of speech acts, and social and legal conventions - and most fundamentally, how the assertions and assumptions of dominance in insults make them a serious and essential form of power play. Neu uses philosophical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, and legal approaches to these questions as well as entertaining examples to come up with insightful and surprising answers.

The Theory of Mind as Pure Act

31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Philosophy of Solipsism

By Giovanni Gentile

$36.31 31 Mar 2008 Paperback Living Time Media International

Mindfucking

31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Critique of Mental Manipulation

By Colin McGinn

$18.18 31 Mar 2008 Hardback Acumen Publishing Ltd

Being surrounded by bullshit is one thing. Having your mind fucked is quite another. The former is irritating, but the latter is violating and intrusive (unless you give your consent). This title investigates and clarifies this phenomenon, taking in the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare and modern techniques of thought control.

The Erotic Phenomenon

30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jean-Luc Marion

$19.00 30 Mar 2008 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. This book offers an inquiry into the concept of love itself.

Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth

21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics and Epistemology

By Andrew Gluck

$15.00 21 Mar 2008 Paperback University of Scranton Press,U.S.

Truly Understood

20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christopher Peacocke

$60.00 20 Mar 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Lacan and the Limits of Language

15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Shepherdson

$24.00 15 Mar 2008 Paperback Fordham University Press

Lacan and the Limits of Language

15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Shepherdson

$80.00 15 Mar 2008 Hardback Fordham University Press

Ontology of Consciousness

13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Percipient Action

By H Wautischer

$38.00 13 Mar 2008 Paperback MIT Press Ltd

Examines consciousness through the lens of intellectual approaches and cultures ranging from cosmology research and cell biophysics laboratories to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.

Ontology of Consciousness

13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Percipient Action

By H Wautischer

$85.00 13 Mar 2008 Hardback MIT Press Ltd

The Phenomenal Self

13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Barry Dainton

$100.10 13 Mar 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, grounded in the continuity we find in our streams of consciousness: this is the key to explaining how we can undergo changes but remain the same person. He has original things to say about personal identity, the conditions of our existence and survival, and our relation to our bodies.

Matter into Feeling

02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit

By Fred Alan Wolf

$14.95 02 Mar 2008 Paperback Moment Point Press Inc,US

The Self

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Burwood

$25.46 01 Mar 2008 Paperback Acumen Publishing Ltd

The Inner Journey: Views from the Gurdjieff Work

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gurdjieff, G. I.

$29.95 01 Mar 2008 Paperback Morning Light Press

The Gurdjieff tradition, commonly referred to as "The Work," describes people's daily lives as completely mechanical, conducted asleep. Gurdjieff's intent, as with many sacred traditions, was literally to aid in one's awakening. The tools for doing this are many but integrated. The various methods of "The Work" are intended to specifically integrate a person's physical, emotional, and intellectual centers into a fourth way of consciousness. Like Zen, this tradition has been an oral one emphasizing the relationship of teacher to student. But there have also been extensive writings on this tradition, and "The Inner Journey" collects some of the best of these in the form of essays, interviews, and fables. To expand readers' experience and understanding of both Gurdjieff's life and his teachings, the book is bundled with the feature film "Meetings with Remarkable Men," Peter Brook's critically acclaimed adaptation of the early years of Gurdjieff's search for meaning.