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This approach also overcomes other obstacles that impede a generally satisfying understanding of how we are placed in the worldoxfam bookshop preston modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the worldthese difficulties, he contends, reflect an understandable - but surmountable - failure to see how we might integrate what sellars calls "the logical space of reasons" into the natural worldby returning to a pre-modern conception of nature but retaining the intellectual advance of modernity that has mistakenly been viewed as dislodging it, he makes room for a fully satisfying conception of experience as a rational openness to independent realityin "mind and world", based on the john locke lectures, john mcdowell offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a curesome annotations in ink but otherwise in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremuch as we would like to conceive empirical thought as rationally grounded in experience, pitfalls await anyone who tries to articulate this position, and mcdowell exposes these traps by exploiting the work of contemporary philosophers from wilfrid sellars to donald davidsonhe illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy - the insidious persistence of dualism - in his discussion of empirical thoughtwhat underlies this impasse is a conception of nature that has certain attractions for the modern age, a conception that mcdowell proposes to put aside, thus circumventing these philosophical difficulties
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Oxfam bookshop preston in mind and cosmos thomas nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenablethe conclusion is that physics cannot be the theory of everythingand the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist historythe mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodiessince minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incompleteif materialism cannot accommodate consciousness and other mind-related aspects of reality, then we must abandon a purely materialist understanding of nature in general, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmologyan adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as suchno such explanation is available, and the physical sciences, including molecular biology, cannot be expected to provide onesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book explores these problems through a general treatment of the obstacles to reductionism, with more specific application to the phenomena of consciousness, cognition, and value
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Oxfam shop cowley road hardback with blue boards and black endpapers, published by longmans, green, & cospine is worn top and bottominscription on ffep, and yellowed pages, but the book is generally in very good condition for its agesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book is in two parts: ‘mind and motion’ was the rede lecture for , while the six chapters of ‘monism’ make up the bulk of the bookfirst editiongeorge john romanes () was an evolutionary biologist and psychologist, a fellow of the royal society and a friend of charles darwinhardback, no dust jacket
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PSYCHOLOGY THE SCIENCE OF MIND AND BEHAVIOUR 2ND SECOND EDITION HOLT BREMNER SOUTHERLAND VLIEK SMITH
Psychology the science of mind and behaviour 2nd second edition holt bremner southerland vliek smith
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Revolutions have, as much as war or nationalism, shaped the development of world politicsby putting the international politics of revolution centre stage, fred halliday's book makes a major contribution to the understanding of both revolution and world politicsequally, revolutions have been, in cause, ideology and consequence, international eventsoxfam shop mold the relation of revolutions to international relations is central to modern historysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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As to the third; he must recognise and patiently accept the fact that his own mind and personality is also mind-constructed, that it is empty of substance, unborn see oxfam website for delivery information read morein the sutra, the buddha asserts that all the objects of the world, and the names and forms of experience, are merely manifestations of the mind: on the contrary my teaching is based upon the recognition that the objective world, like a vision, is a manifestation of the mind itself; it teaches the cessation of ignorance, desire, deed and causality; it teaches the cessation of suffering that arises from the discrimination of the triple worldbecause the world is seen as being "mind-only" or "consciousness-only", all phenomena are void, empty of self (atman) and illusory: there are four things by the fulfilling of which an earnest disciple may gain self-realisation of noble wisdom and become a bodhisattva-mahasattva: first, he must have a clear understanding that all things are only manifestations of the mind itself; second, he must discard the notion of birth, abiding and disappearance; third, he must clearly understand the egolessness of both things and personsas to the first; he must recognise and be fully convinced that this triple world is nothing but a complex manifestation of one's mental activities; that it is devoid of selfness and its belongings; that there are no strivings, no comings, no goingshe must recognise and accept the fact that this triple world is manifested and imagined as real only under the influence of habit-energy that has been accumulated since the beginningless past by reason of memory, false-imagination, false-reasoning, and attachments to the multiplicities of objects and reactions in close relationship and in conformity to ideas of body-property-and-abodeas to the second; he must recognise and be convinced that all things are to be regarded as forms seen in a vision and a dream, empty of substance, un-born and without self-nature; that all things exist only by reason of a complicated network of causationoxfam bookshop bloomsbury street the lankavatara sutra draws upon the concepts and doctrines of yogacara and buddha-naturevijñana) and the teaching of consciousness as the only realitythe most important doctrine issuing from the lankavatara sutra is that of the primacy of consciousness (skt
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He argues that traditional claims about our knowledge of our own mind and of the external world can be inverted; that atomism about the conscious mind might turn out to be true; that dualism is more credible the more extreme it is; and that all intentionality involves non-existent objectsthese are all surprising positions, but he contends that what the philosophy of mind needs now is 'methodological radicalism' - a willingness to consider new and seemingly extravagant ideashe extends and deepens his controversial solution to the mind-body problem, defending the view that consciousness is both ontologically unproblematic and epistemologically impenetrablemcginn goes on to discuss the status of first-person authority, the possibility of atomism with respect to consciousness, extreme dualism, and the role of non-existent objects in constituting intentionalitysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston colin mcginn presents his latest work on consciousness in ten interlinked essays, four of them previously unpublishedhe also investigates the basis of our knowledge that there is a mind-body problem, and the bearing of this on attempted solutions
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Although weve been trying to understand our world since the beginning of time, and philosophers, theologians, and scientists have tried to interpret the world for us, we still want to know what were doing here and whether life has meaning and purpose see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham  this book is for seekersincludes a how-to guide on how to practice bhakti-yoga drawing on questions like these and others asked by the many people he spoke to over the years, in this book his divine grace abhaktivedanta swami prabhupada responds with logic and wit from an ancient treasure house of vedic wisdom - speaking to questions on yoga, meditation, the mind, and karma, and exploring the self, the universe, and the source of existence
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Like the two earlier volumes of williams's papers published by cambridge university press, problems of the self and moral luck, this volume will be welcomed by all readers with a serious interest in philosophyaltham and ross harrison, which provides a reappraisal of his work by other distinguished thinkers in the fieldthis new volume of philosophical papers by bernard williams is divided into three sections: the first action, freedom, responsibility, the second philosophy, evolution and the human sciences; in which appears the essay which gives the collection its title; and the third ethics, which contains essays closely related to his book ethics and the limits of philosophyit is published alongside a volume of essays on williams's work, world, mind, and ethics: essays on the ethical philosophy of bernard williams, edited by joxfam shop kendal paperbacksee oxfam website for delivery information read morecorners of front cover very slightly worn and curled, otherwise like new
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mind in action offers an alternative approachoxfam bookshop preston bede rundle challenges the quasi-mechanical view of human action that is dominant in contemporary philosophy of minda materialist view of the mind and a causal theory of action fit together conveniently: the notion of action as caused by thoughts and desires allows philosophers to accommodate explanations of action within a framework that is congenial to scientific understanding, and the conception of mind as physical enables them to make sense of causal transactions between the two domainsrundle's approach sheds fresh light not only on human behaviour but also on animal mentality, and has important implications for the feasibility of current programmes in cognitive sciencesee oxfam website for delivery information read morecompelling reasons are given for demoting causation and for shifting the emphasis to the role played by behaviour in accounts of thought, belief, desire, intention, freedom, and other key concepts
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In the wide range and historical breadth of his interests, he has influenced many parts of the philosophical landscape, especially in the philosophy of mind and the theory of human action and responsibility mind, method and morality celebrates kenny's work by focusing on the four great philosophers to whom kenny has given special attention, namely aristotle, aquinas, descartes, and wittgensteinin contrast to many of his contemporaries, who have played down philosophy's debt to its past, kenny's work has always been rooted in the great tradition of western philosophical inquirystrongly linked together by their focus on philosophy of mind, action and responsibility, the papers make a significant contribution to those areas of philosophy that kenny has made particularly his own, and constitute a timely celebration of his worksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston sir anthony kenny is one of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of our timeit contains sixteen essays (four on each philosopher) written by leading specialists in the relevant areaa preface by the editors describes anthony kenny's philosophical career, and the volume also includes a complete bibliography of his writingswhile keeping to the highest standards of scholarship and philosophical rigour, the volume aims to be engaging and comprehensible to a wide audience, thus mirroring the clarity and accessibility that are the hallmarks of kenny's own philosophical writings
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