BISAC SubjectsPHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body

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Consciousness and Object: A mind-object identity physicalist theory

Riccardo Manzotti

What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked “What is a man?” and replied that a man is “a certain sort of material object”. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 95] 2017. xv, 254 pp.

Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement

Edited by Helena De Preester

This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] 2013. vi, 320 pp.

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement

Edited by Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 84] 2012. vii, 468 pp.

Mind Ascribed: An elaboration and defence of interpretivism

Bruno Mölder

This book provides a thoroughly worked out and systematic presentation of an interpretivist position in the philosophy of mind, of the view that having mental properties is a matter of interpretation. Bruno Mölder elaborates and defends a particular version of interpretivism, the ascription theory,… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 80] 2010. xii, 293 pp.

Mind that Abides: Panpsychism in the new millennium

Edited by David Skrbina

Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving, possess some mind like quality. It stands in sharp contrast to the traditional notion of mind as the property of humans and (perhaps) a few select ‘higher animals’. Though surprising at first glance, panpsychism has a long and noble… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 75] 2009. xiv, 401 pp.

The Transparent Becoming of World: A crossing between process philosophy and quantum neurophilosophy

Gordon G. Globus †

The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism, indirect realism and idealism, the continual becoming of… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 77] 2009. xiii, 169 pp.

The Reflexive Nature of Consciousness

Greg Janzen

Combining phenomenological insights from Brentano and Sartre, but also drawing on recent work on consciousness by analytic philosophers, this book defends the view that conscious states are reflexive, and necessarily so, i.e., that they have a built-in, “implicit” awareness of their own occurrence,… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 72] 2008. vii, 186 pp.

Embodiment in Cognition and Culture

Edited by John Michael Krois, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele and Dirk Westerkamp

This volume shows that the notions of embodied or situated cognition, which have transformed the scientific study of intelligence have the potential to reorient cultural studies as well. The essays adapt and amplify embodied cognition in such different fields as art history, literature, history of… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 71] 2007. xxii, 304 pp.

To Understand a Cat: Methodology and philosophy

Sam S. Rakover

To understand a cat: methodology and philosophy rests on the realization that the everyday behavior of a cat (but other animals too) should be understood through a new approach, namely methodological dualism. It appeals to mechanistic explanation models and to mentalistic explanation models. It… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 70] 2007. xviii, 253 pp.