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  • Phenomenal Consciousness

    Understanding the Relation Between Experience and Neural Processes in the Brain

    by Dimitris Platchias ...
    How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us that our mental states correlate with neural processes in the brain. However, although we know that experience arises from a physical basis, we don ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Hallucination

    Philosophy and Psychology

    Edited by Fiona Macpherson, Dimitris Platchias ...
    Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, perception, and our knowledge of the world. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques and ... Read more

    $74.39 CAD

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    by David J. Chalmers ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind Series
    What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of consciousness, Chalmers builds a ... Read more

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  • Mind

    A Brief Introduction

    by John R. Searle ...
    Series series Fundamentals of Philosophy Series
    "The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." In Mind, Searle dismantles these famous and influential theories as he presents a vividly written, comprehensive introduction to the mind. Here readers will find one of the world's most eminent thinkers shedding light on the central ... Read more

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  • The New Science of the Mind

    From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition "in the head."There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • How the Mind Uses the Brain

    To Move the Body and Image the Universe

    by Ralph Ellis, Natika Newton ...
    The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. This book explains and argues for a new approach called enactivism. Enactivism maintains that consciousness and all subjective thoughts and feelings arise from an organism's attempts to use its environment in the service of purposeful action. The authors admit that ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Consciousness Paradox

    Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts

    by Rocco J. Gennaro ...
    Series series Representation and Mind series
    A defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness.Consciousness is arguably the most important area within contemporary philosophy of mind and perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the world. Despite an explosion of research from philosophers, psychologists, and scientists, attempts to explain ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Natural Origin of Language

    The Structural Inter-Relation of Language, Visual Perception and Action

    by Robin Allott ...
    The Natural Origin Of Language ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Theories of Consciousness

    An Introduction and Assessment

    by William Seager ...
    Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles. The second edition of Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment provides a fresh and up-to-date introduction to a variety of approaches to consciousness, and contributes to the current lively debate ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Consciousness and the Limits of Reason

    by S.M. Moretta ...
    Consciousness. So rich, so complex, so much our world, so difficult to explain. The "Problem of Mind" is considered from the perspective of both interactive dualism (as championed by Descartes) and contemporary materialism. Additionally, two alternative avenues to the explanation of consciousness, namely, quantum mechanics and general systems theory, are discussed in some detail.But before diving ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy of Mind

    by Jaegwon Kim ...
    This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus. It serves as a stimulus to the reader to engage with the problems of the mind and try to come to terms with them, and examines Descartes's mind-body dualism. ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason

    How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

    by Mark Johnson ...
    Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values.A brief ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus