Philosophy of Mind Books

New and Published Books

1. Understanding the Self and Others

   Explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity

   Edited by Gordon Sammut, Paul Daanen, Fathali Moghaddam

   How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world’s most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World

   The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate

   Edited by Joseph K. Schear

   John McDowell and Hubert L. Dreyfus are philosophers of world renown, whose work has decisively shaped the fields of analytic philosophy and phenomenology respectively. Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate opens with their debate over one of the most important and...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Aesthetics

   The Role of Body in Design

   Edited by Ritu Bhatt

   Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Disordered Mind

   An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, 2nd Edition

   By George Graham

   The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, second edition examines and explains, from a philosophical standpoint, what mental disorder is: its reality, causes, consequences, and more. It is also an outstanding introduction to philosophy of mind from the...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. A Philosophy of Material Culture

   Action, Function, and Mind

   By Beth Preston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Philosophy of Mind

   A Contemporary Introduction, 3rd Edition

   By John Heil

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

   When first published, John Heil's introduction quickly became a widely used guide for students with little or no background in philosophy to central issues of philosophy of mind. Heil provided an introduction free of formalisms, technical trappings, and specialized terminology. He offered clear...

   Published December 7th 2012 by Routledge
7. Kant and Non-Conceptual Content

   Edited by Dietmar Heidemann

   Conceptualism is the view that cognizers can have mental representations of the world only if they possess the adequate concepts by means of which they can specify what they represent. By contrast, non-conceptualism is the view that mental representations of the world do not necessarily presuppose...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Donald Davidson: Life and Words

   Edited by Maria Baghramian

   Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mind, and epistemology has shaped the views of several generations of philosophers. This book brings together articles by a host of prominent philosophers...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Disjunctivism

   Disjunctive Accounts in Epistemology and in the Philosophy of Perception

   Edited by Marcus Willaschek

   Does perception provide us with direct and unmediated access to the world around us? The so-called 'argument from illusion ' has traditionally been supposed to show otherwise: from the subject's point of view, perceptual illusions are often indistinguishable from veridical perceptions; hence,...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Emotion and Reason

    Mind, Brain, and the Social Domains of Work and Love

    By Warren TenHouten

    Although much academic work has been done on the areas of mind, brain, and society, a theoretical synthesis of the three levels of analysis – the biological, the mental, and the social – has not until now been put forward. In Emotion and Reason, Warren TenHouten presents a truly comprehensive...

    Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge