Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind (Philosophy of Mind) by Robert D. Rupert

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 an important account of skepticism within the heritage of recent philosophy. during this lucid and thorough creation 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 bought whilst Hume released the Treatise.

A Brief History of the Soul

This e-book 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 various assorted, traditionally major philosophies of the soul Addresses the fundamental concerns, together with mind-body interplay, the causal closure of the actual international, and the philosophical implications of the mind sciences for the soul's lifestyles contains insurance of theories from key figures, comparable to Plato, Aquinas, Locke, Hume, and Descartes precise in combining the heritage of rules and the advance 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 net, wie mächtig der Anpassungsdruck ist.

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

In cognitive technological know-how, conceptual content material is often understood because the "meaning" of a psychological illustration. This place increases principally empirical questions on what innovations are, what shape they absorb psychological approaches, and the way they hook up with the realm they're approximately. In Minds with out that means, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn assessment many of the proposals recommend to respond to those questions and locate that none of them is remotely defensible.