The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between mind, language and action in defining mentality. Papers by renowned philosophers unravel what is increasingly acknowledged to be the enacted nature of the m…
Holism grows out of the philosophical position that an object or phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. And yet analysis �a mental process crucial to human comprehension �involves breaking something down into its components, dismantling the whole in order to grasp it pi…
To understand what an individual "believes" we must take into account the full historical and institutional context of a person's life. But how can two people share the same thought if they do not share the same system of belief? Descombes solves this problem by developing a log…
In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome Project to the development of the brain. Scientists have long struggled to understand how a tiny number of genes c…
"This work is a systematic investigation of a range of solutions offered today for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyzed before a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. It is demonstrated …
Marshall provides a systematic account of Spinoza's philosophy of mind. He presents Spinoza's concept of the mind as affective mechanism, one that, when rational, behaves as a spiritual automaton. The central feature of this account is a novel concept of consciousness, one that …
"Causality and Mind presents seventeen of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy, which focus on two main themes. One theme is the continuing debate over the nature of causality in the period from Descartes to Hume. Jolley shows that, despite his revolutionary stanc…
"'Mind, Meaning, and reality' contains fifteen philosophical papers by D.H. Mellor, including a new defence of 'success semantics', and an introduction arguing that metaphysics can and need only be justified by doing it and not by a 'meta-metaphysics', which it needs no more tha…
