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  • What is Consciousness?

    A Debate

    by Amy Kind, Daniel Stoljar ...
    Series series Little Debates about Big Questions
    What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of "standard" ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

    The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Volume 6

    Edited by Amy Kind ...
    Series series The History of the Philosophy of Mind
    While the philosophical study of mind has always required philosophers to attend to the scientific developments of their day, from the twentieth century onwards it has been especially influenced and informed by psychology, neuroscience, and computer science.Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries provides an outstanding survey of the most prominent themes in twentieth ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination

    Edited by Amy Kind ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition, aesthetics and ethics, as well as epistemology, science and mathematics.This outstanding Handbook contains ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity

    Edited by Amy Kind, Julia Langkau ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Philosophy has long paid minimal attention to creativity, and even with the rise of research on imagination, the creative imagination has still largely been ignored. The aim of this Oxford Handbook is to correct this neglect. By bringing together research from various sub-disciplines, the contributors explore recent emerging topics and open up new avenues of research in the philosophy of ... Read more

    $149.39 USD

  • Persons and Personal Identity

    by Amy Kind ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive having all of our memories erased and replaced with false ones? What about if our bodies were destroyed and our brains were transplanted into ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Philosophy of Mind

    50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

    by Torin Alter, Amy Kind, Robert J. Howell ...
    Series series Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments in Philosophy
    Imaginative cases, or what might be called puzzles and other thought experiments, play a central role in philosophy of mind. The real world also furnishes philosophers with an ample supply of such puzzles.This volume collects 50 of the most important historical and contemporary cases in philosophy of mind and describes their significance. The authors divide them into five sections: consciousness ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Imagination and Creative Thinking

    by Amy Kind ...
    Series series Elements in Philosophy of Mind
    This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of activities in which they are typically implicated, from art, music, and literature to technology, medicine, and science. Focusing on the contemporary philosophical literature, it will take up several interrelated ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Epistemic Uses of Imagination

    Edited by Christopher Badura, Amy Kind ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have begun to explore its capacity to play an epistemic role in a variety of other contexts as well.In this collection, the contributors address an ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Mind: The Basics

    by Amy Kind ...
    Series series The Basics
    Philosophy of Mind: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the fundamental philosophical questions and theories about the mind. The author Amy Kind, a leading expert in the field, examines central issues concerning the nature of consciousness, thought, and emotion. The book addresses key questions such as:What is the nature of the mind?What is the relationship between the mind and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Formal Languages in Logic

    A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis

    by Catarina Dutilh Novaes ...
    Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Edited by Dirk Geeraerts, Hubert Cuyckens ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Waning of Materialism

    Edited by Robert C. Koons, George Bealer ...
    Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent ... Read more

    $53.99 USD