What is cognition? What is its place in nature? For about 60 years philosophers and scientists have been engaged in giving a naturalistic dress to the cognitive sciences arguing over the status of mental representations and computational processes.
Category: Philosophy
Mimesis International brings together a selection of books addressing a range of fundamental ideas within the latest, global philosophical debates. Presenting well known thinkers together with emerging voices, our books are written in a clear and concise way, making them suitable both for academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students.
The gift in the heart of language. The maternal source of meaning
Genevieve Vaughan offers a paradigm-shifting view of the structure of material and verbal communication, based on mother- child experience and confirmed by recent research in infant psychology.
On nudity an introduction to nonsense
What remains of philosophy, once that theories and opinions have been deleted? Perhaps there is only nudity, which is to be fathomed by the adequate […]
Breaking the spell. Contemporary Realism under Discussion
It seems that the time has come for philosophy to break the spell of correlationism. But how? The present book gathers essays by philosophers and […]
The Invention of the Text
The notion of text is perhaps the most used and discussed within social and human sciences. Nevertheless, it is surprisingly one of the worst defined. […]
Time and Cross-Temporal Relations
According to both ordinary and scientifi c thought, two objects can enter into relation not only simultanously, but also at different times, namely cross-temporally. For […]
Time without Becoming
Time without Becoming is the text of a lecture Quentin Meillassoux gave at the Middlesex University in May 2008. He makes a summary of the […]
Only for them
Year after year, day after day, minute after minute, billions of non-human animals are slaughtered for several purposes and aims (food, clothing, entertainment, research). An analogous situation whose objects were humans instead of animals would obviously never be accepted. But why do we tolerate and even justify one practice while deploring the other?
The darkness of this time. Ethics, politics, and religion in Wittgenstein
The present book is a collection of 9 essays, emerging from a long and intense research collaboration amongst scholars coming from different backgrounds and traditions. As the book subtitle suggests, these essays focus on the ethical, religious, and political aspects or dimensions of Wittgenstein’s thought