"In this collection of theoretical essays by philosophers and psychoanalysts, encounters are brought about between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis on the one hand, and attachment theory, evolutionary psychology and philosophy of mind on the other."--Jacket.
"How do I know whether there are any minds besides my own? This problem of other minds in philosophy raises questions which are at the heart of all philosophical investigations - how it is that we know, what is in the mind, and whether we can be certain about any of our beliefs.…
"What is a human person, and what is the relation between a person and his or her body? In her third book on the philosophy of mind, Lynne Rudder Baker investigates what she terms the person/body problem and offers a detailed account of the relation between human persons and the…
This book examines the causes of mental illness and psychic-mental suffering, individual and social violence, ideology and utopia, and it proposes a collaboration between neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. As an alternative to the "bad" qualities of the mind, namely t…
Starting from the premise that modernity has cast a spell over people around the world, this collection explores the use of magic and religion as modern tools for connection. The contributors draw on new ethnographic research in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Indonesia to show tha…
