Philosophy: Philosophy of Psychology

Edited by Lindsey A. Harvell, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett

This volume is the first to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of Terror Management Theory, providing a detailed overview of how rich and diverse the field has become since the late 1980s, and where it is going in the future. It offers perspectives from psychology, political science,…

Paperback – 2016-03-10 
Psychology Press

By Christopher Mole

The relationship between intelligent systems and their environment is at the forefront of research in cognitive science. The Unexplained Intellect: Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought shows how computational complexity theory and analytic metaphysics can together illuminate…

Hardback – 2016-03-09 
Routledge

By William Seager

Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles. The second edition of Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment provides a fresh and up-to-date…

Paperback – 2016-02-15 
Routledge

By Tamler Sommers

In the first edition of A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain – Nine Conversations, philosopher Tamler Sommers talked with an interdisciplinary group of the world’s leading researchers—from the fields of social psychology, moral philosophy, cognitive science, and primatology—all working on…

Paperback – 2016-02-01 
Routledge

Edited by Amy Kind

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition,…

Hardback – 2016-01-29 
Routledge
Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Bernard Curtis, Wolfe Mays

This volume of essays brings a phenomenological focus to bear on the subject of education in order to provide a fruitful stimulus for educational philosophy. It is for philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and indeed anyone who seeks to understand the perennially interesting questions about the…

Paperback – 2015-12-31 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

Edited by Martin H. Fischer, Yann Coello

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition. With contributions from internationally acknowledged researchers from a variety of fields, Foundations of Embodied Cognition reveals how intelligent behaviour emerges from the interplay…

Paperback – 2015-12-24 
Routledge

Edited by Yann Coello, Martin H. Fischer

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition. With contributions from internationally acknowledged researchers from a variety of fields, Foundations of Embodied Cognition reveals how intelligent behaviour emerges from the interplay…

Paperback – 2015-12-22 
Routledge

By Rebekka Hufendiek

In this book, Rebekka Hufendiek explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that accounts for their normative dimensions. Embodied Emotions focuses not only on the bodily reactions involved in emotions, but also on the environment…

Hardback – 2015-12-10 
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Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

By Wolff-Michael Roth

Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a goal that…

Paperback – 2015-12-02
Psychology Press

By Tim Crane

How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and more in a lively and straightforward way,…

Paperback – 2015-11-30
Routledge

Edited by Thiemo Breyer, Christopher Gutland

This book draws connections between recent advances in analytic philosophy of mind and insights from the rich phenomenological tradition concerning the nature of thinking. By combining both analytic and continental approaches, the volume arrives at a more comprehensive understanding of the mental…

Hardback – 2015-11-25
Routledge
Routledge Research in Phenomenology