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  • Feeling Present in the Physical World and in Computer-Mediated Environments

    by J. Waterworth, G. Riva ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This concise volume presents for the first time a coherent and detailed account of why we experience feelings of being present in the physical world and in computer-mediated environments, why we often don't, and why it matters - for design, psychotherapy, tool use and social creativity amongst other practical applications. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Special Topics in Information Technology

    Edited by Carlo G. Riva ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book presents outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this ... Read more

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  • The Society of Timid Souls

    or, How To Be Brave

    by Polly Morland ...
    A journey into the modern life of an ancient virtue – bravery – and a quest to understand who might possess it and howWith The Society of Timid Souls, or How To Be Brave, documentary filmmaker Polly Morland sets out to investigate bravery, a quality that she has always felt she lacked. The book takes inspiration from a vividly eccentric, and radical, self-help group for stage-frightened performers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Personhood

    Philosophical, Historical, Social-Developmental, and Narrative Perspectives

    Edited by Jack Martin, Mark H. Bickhard ...
    What is a person? Surprisingly little attention is given to this question in psychology. For much of the past century, psychology has tended to focus on the systematic study of processes rather than on the persons who enact and embody them. In contrast to the reductionist picture of much mainstream theorising, which construes persons as their mental lives, behaviours or neurophysiological ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • What Freud Really Meant

    A Chronological Reconstruction of his Theory of the Mind

    by Susan Sugarman ...
    Through an exacting yet accessible reconstruction of eleven of Freud's essential theoretical writings, Susan Sugarman demonstrates that the traditionally received Freud is the diametric opposite of the one evident in the pages of his own works. Whereas Freud's theory of the mind is typically conceived as a catalogue of uninflected concepts and crude reductionism - for instance that we are nothing ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Consciousness

    Edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken ...
    Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. How does the brain's activity result in the rich phenomenology that characterizes our waking life? Are animals conscious? Why did consciousness evolve? How does science proceed to answer such questions? Can we define what consciousness is? Can we measure it? ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Passion, Death, and Spirituality

    The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon

    Edited by David Sherman, Kathleen Higgins ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Robert C. Solomon, who died in 2007, was Professor of Philosophy and Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business at the University of Texas, USA. As the first book comprehensively to examine the breadth of Solomon’s contribution to philosophy, this volume ranks as a vital addition to the literature. It includes a newly published transcript of Solomon’s last talk, which responded to Arindam ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Narcissism and the Self

    Dynamics of Self-Preservation in Social Interaction, Personality Structure, Subjective Experience, and Psychopathology

    by R. Behrendt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book examines how coevolved intraspecific aggression and appeasement gestures can give rise to complex social, cultural, and psychopathological phenomena. It argues that the individual's need regulate narcissistic supplies and maintain feelings of safety is the overriding determinant of human conduct and thought in mental health and illness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Consciousness

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Susan Blackmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship

    Edited by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Franklin Santana Santos ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The conscious mind defines human existence. Many consider the brain as a computer, and they attempt to explain consciousness as emerging at a critical, but unspecified, threshold level of complex computation among neurons. The brain-as-computer model, however, fails to account for phenomenal experience and portrays consciousness as an impotent, after-the-fact epiphenomenon lacking causal power. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Your Digital Afterlives

    Computational Theories of Life after Death

    by E. Steinhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Digitalism is a philosophical strategy that uses new computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful ways of thinking about bodies, souls, universes, gods, and life after death. Your Digital Afterlives examines four recently developed and digitally inspired theories of life after death. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy

    by M. Altman, C. Coe ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy examines Freud's transformation of German philosophical approaches to freedom, history, and self-knowledge; defends a theory of situated knowledge and agency; and considers the relevance of Freudian thought for contemporary cultural issues. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD