Cet ouvrage explore l'apport de la psychanalyse à la compréhension du symptôme somatique : à partir d'une approche clinique de la question - qu'est-ce qui fait que quelque chose "tourne mal" dans le corps -, se trouve reconstituée la causalité inconsciente du symptôme "physique"…
In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework. Cummins asserts that mental representation is, in fact, a prob…
Looks at accounts by Locke, Fodor, Dretske, and Millikan concerning the nature of mental representation, and discusses connectionism and representation.
Daniel Dennett is arguably one of the most influential yet radical philosophers of America. In this volume, Dennett is confronted by colleagues and critics, from philosophy, biology and psychology. His reply constitutes an extensive essay which clarifies, and develops further, c…
Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as ""natural"" and unproblematic, we sometimes…
by Yuasa, Yasuo
fromSUNY series in Buddhist studies
by Yuasa, Yasuo
fromSUNY series in Buddhist studies
"This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows that Eastern philosophy has generally formulated its view of mind-body unity as an achievement a state to be acquired -- rather than…
From the great popularizer of alternative medicine, here is a collection of essays about his travels to South America in the early 1970s in search of information on altered states of consciousness, drug use in other cultures, and other matters having to do with the complementari…
