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American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions
ISBN: 9780195076585 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include post-Civil War Transcendentalists like Samuel Johnson, this book is encyclopedic in scope. Beginning with the inception of Transcendentalist Orientalism in Europe, Versluis covers the entire history of American Transcendentalism into the twentieth century, and the profound influence of Orientalism on the movement--including its analogues and influences in world religious dialogue. He examines what he calls "positive Orientalism," which...
The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to ...
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1003,84 zł |
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Identity, Consciousness, and Value
ISBN: 9780195079173 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. While supporting the account, he explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival, casting a new light on the work of Lewis, Nagel, Nozick, Parfit, Perry, Shoemaker, and others. Deriving from his discussion of our identity itself, Unger produces a...
The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution...
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493,98 zł |
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Autonomous Agents : From Self-Control to Autonomy
ISBN: 9780195094541 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person, and argues that even such a person can fall short of personal autonomy. He then examines what needs to be added to such a person to yield an autonomous agent and develops two overlapping answers: one for compatibilist believers in human autonomy and one for incompatibilists. While remaining neutral between those who hold that autonomy is compatible with determinism and those who deny this, Mele shows that belief that there...
This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally se...
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976,13 zł |
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Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza
ISBN: 9780195095623 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind's relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza's positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the heart of his metaphysical system: his denial of causal or explanatory relations between the mental and the physical. In this way, Della Rocca's exploration of these two problems provides a new and illuminating perspective...
This first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requi...
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837,59 zł |
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Self Expressions : Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
ISBN: 9780195096965 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self. But reflection has its costs. We can ask what the self is, but as David Hume pointed out, the self, once reflected upon, may be nowhere to be found. The favored view is that we are material beings living in the material world. But if so, a host of destabilizing questions surface. If persons are just a sophisticated sort of animal, then what sense is there to the idea that we are free agents who control our own destinies? What makes the life of any animal, even one as sophisticated as Homo sapiens,...
Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self. But reflection has its costs. We can ask what the self is, but ...
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782,17 zł |
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Deconstructing the Mind
ISBN: 9780195100815 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Over the last two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have been center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. Eliminativists have argued that advances in cognitive science and neuroscience will ultimately justify a rejection of our "folk" theory of the mind, and of its ontology. In the first half of this book Stich, who was at one time a leading advocate of eliminativism, maintains that even if the sciences develop in the ways that eliminativists foresee, none of the arguments for ontological elimination are tenable. Rather than being resolved by...
Over the last two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have been center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of...
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671,33 zł |
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Privacy, Intimacy, and Isolation
ISBN: 9780195104608 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Privacy is a puzzling concept. From the backyard to the bedroom, everyday life gives rise to an abundance of privacy claims. In the legal sphere, privacy is invoked with respect to issues including abortion, marriage, and sexuality. Yet privacy is surrounded by a mire of theoretical debate. Certain philosophers argue that privacy is neither conceptually nor morally distinct from other interests, while numerous legal scholars point to the apparently disparate interests involved in constitutional and tort privacy law. By arguing that intimacy is the core of privacy, including privacy law,...
Privacy is a puzzling concept. From the backyard to the bedroom, everyday life gives rise to an abundance of privacy claims. In the legal sphere, priv...
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410,85 zł |
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Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
ISBN: 9780195106466 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artificial intelligence. But perhaps more important, in this volume he points the way to a new science, one that may eventually explain the...
A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern ph...
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131,57 zł |
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The Conscious Mind : In Search of a Fundamental Theory
ISBN: 9780195117899 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give ris e to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions tod ay are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philos ophers, and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminen t figures as Francis Crick, Daniel C. Dennett, Gerald Edelman, and Rog er Penrose, all firing volleys in what has come to be called the consc iousness wars. Now, in The Conscious Mind, philosopher David J. Chalme rs offers a cogent analysis of...
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give ris e to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, ...
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98,92 zł |
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What's Within? : Nativism Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780195123845 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capacities are innate or inborn: "native" to the mind rather than acquired. Fiona Cowie argues that this view is mistaken, demonstrating that nativism is an unstable amalgam of two quite different--and probably inconsistent--theses about the mind. Unlike empiricists, who postulate domain-neutral learning strategies, nativists insist that some learning tasks require special kinds of skills, and that these skills are hard-wired into our brains at...
This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capa...
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560,49 zł |
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Self Expressions : Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
ISBN: 9780195126525 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this trailblazing collection of essays on free will and the human mind, distinguished philosopher Owen Flanagan seeks to reconcile a scientific view of ourselves with an account of ourselves as meaning makers and agents of free will. He approaches this old philosophical quagmire from new angles, bringing to it the latest insights of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychiatry. Covering a host of topics, these essays discuss whether the conscious mind can be explained scientifically, whether dreams are self-expressive or just noise, the moral socialization of children, and the nature of...
In this trailblazing collection of essays on free will and the human mind, distinguished philosopher Owen Flanagan seeks to reconcile a scientific vie...
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444,11 zł |
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Deconstructing the Mind
ISBN: 9780195126662 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the past two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have occupied center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. A group of prominent philosophers known as eliminativists argue that advances in cognitive science and neuroscience will ultimately justify a rejection of our folk theory of mind because it gives a radically mistaken account of mental life. In Deconstructing the Mind, distinguished philosopher Stephen Stich, once a leading advocate of eliminativism, offers a bold and compelling reassessment of this view. The book opens with...
During the past two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have occupied center stage in both cognitive science and the philoso...
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410,85 zł |
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The Paradox of Subjectivity : The Self in the Transcendental Tradition
ISBN: 9780195126907 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Much effort in recent philosophy has been devoted to attacking the metaphysics of the subject. Identified largely with French post-structuralist thought, yet stemming primarily from the influential work of the later Heidegger, this attack has taken the form of a sweeping denunciation of the whole tradition of modern philosophy from Descartes through Nietzsche, Husserl, and Existentialism. In this timely study, David Carr contends that this discussion has overlooked and eventually lost sight of the distinction between modern metaphysics and the tradition of transcendental philosophy...
Much effort in recent philosophy has been devoted to attacking the metaphysics of the subject. Identified largely with French post-structuralist thoug...
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510,62 zł |
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Doing Things for Reasons
ISBN: 9780195143645 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs. Elegantly written, this work is a substantial contribution to the fields of rationality, ethics, and action theory.
What exactly are the reasons we do things, and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a...
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377,61 zł |
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Identifying the Mind : Selected Papers of U.T. Place
ISBN: 9780195161373 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind. The collection focuses on Place's philosophy of mind and his contributions to neighboring issues in metaphysics and epistemology. It includes an autobiographical essay as well as a recent paper on the function and neural location of consciousness.
This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind. The collection focuses on Place's philosophy of mind and his contribution...
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377,61 zł |
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A Place for Consciousness : Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World
ISBN: 9780195168143 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, philosophers ask whether we can ever know what is it is like for bats to sense the world using sonar. It seems obvious to many that any amount of information about a bat's physical structure and information processing leaves us guessing about the central questions concerning the character of its experience. A Place for Consciousness begins with reflections on the existence of this gap. Is it just a psychological shortcoming in our...
What place does consciousness have in the natural world? If we reject materialism, could there be a credible alternative? In one classic example, phil...
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488,45 zł |
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Three Faces of Desire
ISBN: 9780195172379 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. To desire something is a condition familiar to everyone. It is uncontroversial that desiring has something to do with motivation, something to do with pleasure, and something to do with reward. Call these "the three faces of desire." The standard philosophical theory at present holds that the motivational face of desire presents its unique essence--to desire a state of affairs is to be disposed to act so as to bring it about. A familiar but less standard account holds the hedonic face of desire to reveal to true nature of desire. In this view, to desire something is to tend to pleasure if it...
To desire something is a condition familiar to everyone. It is uncontroversial that desiring has something to do with motivation, something to do with...
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366,52 zł |
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Purple Haze : The Puzzle of Consciousness
ISBN: 9780195173086 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non-conscious, physical events. On the other hand, we cannot explain how physical phenomena give rise to conscious experience.
In this wide-ranging study, Joseph Levine explores both sides of the mind-body dilemma, presenting the first book-length treatment of his highly influential ideas on the "explanatory gap," the fact that we can't explain the nature of phenomenal experience in terms of its physical... Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious ev...
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283,12 zł |
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The Taboo of Subjectivity : Towards a New Science of Consciousness
ISBN: 9780195173109 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism, and scientism. Arguing that the metaphysical doctrine of scientific materialism has taken on the role of ersatz-religion for its adherents, he traces its development from its Greek and Judeo-Christian origins, focusing on the interrelation between the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific...
This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. ...
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211,07 zł |
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The Situated Self
ISBN: 9780195174366 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. J. T. Ismael's monograph is an ambitious contribution to metaphysics and the philosophy of language and mind. She tackles a philosophical question whose origin goes back to Descartes: What am I? The self is not a mere thing among things--but if so, what is it, and what is its relationship to the world? Ismael is an original and creative thinker who tries to understand our problematic concepts about the self and how they are related to our use of language in particular.
J. T. Ismael's monograph is an ambitious contribution to metaphysics and the philosophy of language and mind. She tackles a philosophical question who...
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493,98 zł |
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