Philosophy of Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Evil and Moral Psychology

   By Peter Brian Barry

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion, Barry looks instead to moral psychology—the intersection of ethics and psychology. He provides...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. G.H. Mead

   A Reader

   By G. H. Mead

   Edited by Filipe Carreira da Silva

   Series: Routledge Classics in Sociology

   This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology. Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has been no comprehensive reader of his...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. The Philosophy of Psychology

   Edited by Jose Luis Bermudez, Brandon Towl

   Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

   The study of human behaviour, and the minds that produce that behaviour, has been an occupation of scholars, artists, and philosophers for millennia. But it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that psychology came into its own as a distinct field of study—and, more importantly, as a...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Responding to Men in Crisis

   By Brian Taylor

   Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health. It looks at postmodern theory in relation to masculinities and madness, and discusses key contemporary debates in political uses of risk, dangerousness and so on. The...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Phenomena of Awareness

   Husserl, Cantor, Jung

   By Cecile Tougas

   What is awareness? How is dreaming different from ordinary awareness? What does mathematics have to do with awareness? Are different kinds of awareness related? “Awareness” is commonly spoken of as “mind, soul, spirit, consciousness, the unconscious, psyche, imagination, self, and other.” The...

   Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals)

   Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960

   By C. D. Broad

   This book, first published in 1962, is based on a series of lectures first given at Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960, dealing with 'psychical research' - i.e. the scientific investigation of ostensibly paranormal phenomena. Split into three sections, Professor Broad's study examines...

   Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

   Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann

   Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Emotions

    A Philosophical Introduction

    By Julien Deonna, Fabrice Teroni

    The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of their significance. The philosophical problems stirred up by the existence of the emotions, over which many great philosophers of the past have laboured, revolve around attempts to understand what this...

    Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge