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  • Thought

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dr Tim Bayne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    There is no denying that thinking comes naturally to human beings. But what are thoughts? How is thought realized in the brain? Does thinking occur in public or is it a purely private affair? Do young children and non-human animals think? Is human thought the same everywhere, or are there culturally specific modes of thought? What is the relationship between thought and language? What kind of ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Thought

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dr Tim Bayne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    There is no denying that thinking comes naturally to human beings. But what are thoughts? How is thought realized in the brain? Does thinking occur in public or is it a purely private affair? Do young children and non-human animals think? Is human thought the same everywhere, or are there culturally specific modes of thought? What is the relationship between thought and language? What kind of ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

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  • Thinking and Reasoning

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan St B. T. Evans ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptibile to bias and error. The study of thinking and reasoning goes back to Aristotle, and was one of the first topics to be studied when psychology separated from philosophy. In this Very Short Introduction Jonathan Evans explores cognitive psychological ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Consciousness

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Susan Blackmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Analytic Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Beaney ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy established itself in various forms in the 1930s. After the Second World War, it developed further in North America, in the rest of Europe, and is now growing in influence as the dominant philosophical ... Read more

    $4.79 CAD

  • Knowledge

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jennifer Nagel ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Memory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan K. Foster ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well sometimes and not others? What happens when it goes wrong? Can memory be improved or manipulated, by psychological techniques or even 'brain implants'? How does memory grow and change as we age? And what of so-called 'recovered' memories? This book brings ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Philosophy of Mind

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Barbara Gail Montero ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction probes some of the great philosophical questions about the mind: What is the relationship between mind and matter? Can science unravel the mystery of consciousness? How can our thoughts represent things in the world? Are computers genuinely intelligent? In the book, Barbara Gail Montero highlights key thought experiments used by philosophers to explore ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Logic

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Graham Priest ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Ethics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. Here, Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Stoicism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Brad Inwood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them? This Very Short Introduction provides an introductory account of Stoic philosophy, and tells the ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Perception

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Brian Rogers ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and it is also raises some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to guide and control our behaviour as well as to create our particular, subjective experiences of the surrounding world. In this Very Short Introduction, Brian J. Rogers ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD