Chaos is the New Calm (American Poets Continuum) by Wyn Cooper

Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature': An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts)

David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) provides crucial account of skepticism within the historical past of recent philosophy. during this lucid and thorough advent to the paintings, John P. Wright examines the advance of Hume's rules within the Treatise, their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the mind's eye and passions, and the reception they got while Hume released the Treatise.

A Brief History of the Soul

This publication is a transparent and concise historical past of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to state of the art modern paintings in philosophy of brain. jam-packed with arguments for and opposed to quite a number various, traditionally major philosophies of the soul Addresses the basic concerns, together with mind-body interplay, the causal closure of the actual global, and the philosophical implications of the mind sciences for the soul's life contains assurance of theories from key figures, comparable to Plato, Aquinas, Locke, Hume, and Descartes targeted in combining the heritage of rules and the improvement of a strong case for a non-reductionist, non-materialist account of the soul

Autonomie: Eine Verteidigung (German Edition)

Used to be tun gegen den Zwang zur Anpassung? Autonomie gilt als zentrale menschliche Eigenschaft. Doch sie gerät von vielen Seiten unter Beschuss: Die Neurowissenschaft erklärt, der Wille sei nicht frei, die Sozialpsychologie zeigt in ihren Experimenten ebenso wie Shitstorms im web, wie mächtig der Anpassungsdruck ist.

Minds without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts (MIT Press)

In cognitive technology, conceptual content material is often understood because the "meaning" of a psychological illustration. This place increases mostly empirical questions on what options are, what shape they soak up psychological approaches, and the way they hook up with the area they're approximately. In Minds with no that means, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn overview many of the proposals recommend to reply to those questions and locate that none of them is remotely defensible.