Understanding is an ability manifested by grasping relations of a phenomenon and articulating new explanations. Hence, s......more

Motivational hedonism (often called "psychological hedonism") claims that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasur......more

There are times when life as a human becomes difficult. We are caught between the divine and the instinctual: neither om......more

The credence framework is used by scientists and social scientists in almost all disciplines, including economics and po......more

So, What Are I Doing Here, Anyway? is a multi-course feast, offering readers a wide-ranging and thought-provoking collec......more

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This volume brings together recent work on the nature of belief, imagination, and delusion. Whilst philosophers of mind ......more

The injustice of genocide denial is commonly understood as a violation of the dignity of victims, survivors, and their d......more

We are all familiar with the world of color, but can we learn to experience color more intensely? Can we learn to penetr......more

This volume focuses on Berkeley’s doctrine of signs. The ’doctrine of signs’ refers to the use that Berkeley makes of a ......more

In other volumes of this series we have considered the operations of the human mind known as Will, Memory, etc. We now a......more

There are few, at least among the reflecting portion of society, who have not either mentally or verbally asked the ques......more

This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness (A......more

This volume brings together several papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her infl......more

This book explores how and why some people and practices are made invisible in science, featuring 25 case studies and co......more

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An extended argument that cognitive phenomena--perceiving, imagining, remembering--can be best explained in terms of an ......more

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This highly interdisciplinary volume fills the gap in research ethics that has so far omitted to address the psychologic......more

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Animal minds are complex and diverse, making them difficult to study. This Element focuses on a question that has receiv......more

Animal minds are complex and diverse, making them difficult to study. This Element focuses on a question that has receiv......more

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This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’......more

The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from a leading theoretical psychologist. We fe......more

This book tackles the question of why the brain is so difficult to fully understand. In neuroscience, data are acquired ......more

This book provides philosophers and logicians with a broad spectrum of views on contemporary research on the problem of ......more

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. We imagine that w......more

Philosophers, theologians, physicists, and psychologists join their efforts to reflect on the crucial issues of limit an......more

Embark on a transformative journey to uncover your true authentic self and reveal the limitless mind. In this groundbrea......more

Embark on a transformative journey to uncover your true authentic self and reveal the limitless mind. In this groundbrea......more

This book puts forward a harmonious analysis of similarities and differences between two concepts--human minds and cultu......more

The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy, e......more

A technical, epistemological view of failure investigations and analysis with a focus on metal alloys and polymers for p......more

Dive headfirst into the wild ride of "Boundless Minds: A Creative Canvas for Imaginative Souls," a book crafted for the ......more

THIS BOOK ISN’T ABOUT WHO WROTE IT. IT IS ABOUT WHO READS IT. A Small Book, to empower you to aspire to whoever you desi......more

This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of......more

A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world Wonder and awe lie at the heart o......more

"A condensation of a vast and refreshingly unorthodox system of ideas." -- Arthur Koestler, Observer From one of the mos......more

This is the first English translation of Herbert Witzenmann’s seminal work, Strukturphänomenologie, which departs from t......more

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Neurolaw is an area of interdisciplinary research on the meaning and implications of neuroscience for the law and legal ......more

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Massimo Marraffa and Cristina Meini re-connect the psychology of identity with its philosophical roots in this study. Th......more

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How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it’s an essential part of being......more

This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It build......more

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Philosophical thinking about truth has revolved around two key questions. First, what is the nature of truth? Second, wh......more

Contemporary psychology has studied the purely reproductive imagination with great eagerness and success. The works on t......more

Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neur......more

This book examines the strengths and weaknesses of four salient epistemological orientations in the field - positivism, ......more

The Quality of Thought develops and defends the thesis that thinking is a kind of experience, characterized by a sui gen......more

There is a legal maxim, "fictio cedit veritati" that means fictions yields to truth. "First in Time" includes the transc......more

Shaun Gallagher offers an account of psychopathologies as disorders of the self. The Self and its Disorders develops an ......more

From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhe......more

Morris N. Eagle explores the understanding and role of subjective experience in the disciplines of psychology, psychoana......more

The Psychology of Time considers how we define, describe, and experience time. From a discussion of how our language aro......more

Psychology is generally considered to be the science of mind, although more properly it is the science of mental states-......more

The Philosophy of Freedom is the fundamental philosophical work of the philosopher and esotericist Rudolf Steiner (1861-......more

Truth, providing they are gravely asserted by someone claiming authority. The most illogical ideas are accepted without ......more

Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky’s theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on moder......more

The book was first published in 1907 and reflects the author’s experiences and thoughts on the pursuit of a simpler and ......more

The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of human psychology. Baldwin......more

In The Riddle of the Sphinx, Oedipus is asked, "What goes on four legs in the morning, two feet at midday, and three fee......more

Ontology - the study of the most fundamental categories of being - lies at the very heart of metaphysics. The reason why......more

Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities. Bertrand’s chord pa......more

Philosophers often debate the existence of such things as numbers and propositions, and say that if these objects exist,......more

New insights into the early development of the brain and the emergence of consciousness challenge many of our preconcept......more

"What I love about Searls’s translation of the Tractatus is that it captures the literariness of the text. And so, one c......more

A book of practical psychology. The values to be derived from such a work are necessarily suggestive, and nothing is mor......more

Exploring issues ranging from the metaphysical to the moral and legal, a team of esteemed contributors bring together so......more

Interpretive understanding of human behaviour, known as verstehen, underpins the divide between the social sciences and ......more

Over the course of the last 15 years, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role that action plays in......more