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An introduction to the mindbody problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.

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An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self.

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A succinct, approachable guide to the origins, development, key texts, concepts, and practices of yoga.

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According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems because world thinking is itself the problem.

De Bono examines why we think the way we do from a historical perspective and uses some of his famous thinking techniques, such as lateral thinking, combined with new ideas to show us how to change the way we think.

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A Philosophy of Discomfort anchors the idea of comfort and discomfort as an historical and philosophical concept. While instinct demands we avoid it, and habit tries to deny it, the author insists that we recognise the uncomfortable and the uneasy as central to our existence.

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Professor Baier defends the view that both our reasoning and our intention-formation require a commons of mind, that is, the background existence of shared reasonings, intentions and actions. However she concludes that moral reflection, still in its infancy, is not assured with regard to morality.

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Grant Farred takes up the event as a philosophical problem from a novel perspective, examining infamous events in sport and arguing that theorizing the event through sport makes possible an entirely original way of thinking about it. He shows how what was inherent in the event is opened to new possibilities for understanding ontological being by thinking about sport philosophically.

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Revised and updated edition of the same title first published in 1996.

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An historical overview and evaluation of modern psychology's theoretical foundations, this title ranges from Descartes to dynamics in its discussion of such topics as introspectionism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the varieties of cognitive science.

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An overview and evaluation of modern psychology's theoretical foundations, this work ranges from Descartes to dynamics in its discussion of such topics as introspectionism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the varieties of contemporary cognitive science. These theories are examined and assessed as attempts to construct a conception of the person.

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Both an anthology of Augustine's writings and a commentary on them, this work features substantial selections from On the "Trinity," "Confessions," "The City of God," and "On Freedom of the Will," as well as selections from lesser known works--all brilliantly knit together and illuminated by philosopher Robert Meagher.

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Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. We see manifestations of societal fears every day, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. This book explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful emotion.

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Takes the concept of 'rationality', a concept that is supposed to express the essence of what it means to be human, and submits it to an analysis.

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In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To know the meaning of a sentence or the content of a belief requires knowing which things it repre

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A translation of one the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on Continental philosophy and a broad range of scholarly disciplines. It presents Dilthey's main theoretical works from the 1890s.

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Part travelogue, part spiritual self-help book; A modern-day pilgrimage to ten monasteries around the world.

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An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications.

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An extended argument that cognitive phenomenaperceiving, imagining, rememberingcan be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition.

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Many see Iran as part of the "axis of evil," and America is not alone in arguing that it presents a huge danger. But is Iran really the rabid Islamic dog that some paint it, or is it the most prosperous, sophisticated, cultured nation in the Middle East Farndon presents the facts and lets the reader decide.