Medvetandefilosofi

Den blöta klump som är vår hjärna väger knappt ett och ett halvt kilo och utgör två procent av kroppsvikten. Ja, lite mindre hos en tidigare ledamot i Franska akademien, som det ska visa sig i hjärnforskaren Pontus Waslings bok och upptäcktsfärd i...

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Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. 'Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece' Sunday Times In 1953, ...

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A yogi's guide to joy. Thought leader and visionary presents techniques to achieve absolute well-being.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosophe...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and deep reservoirs of personal insight. He collected ...

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The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery-the race to find the ps...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman phil...

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A new perspective on the overused and misunderstood concept of "karma" that offers the key to happiness and enlightenment, from the New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned spiritual master Sadhguru. What is karma? Most peopl...

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'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bloom ___ For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is ...

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How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these question...

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Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfo...

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Discover the most beautiful book of the year as seen on ITV News and in the Guardian THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'James has a way to speak to your soul. This book is nothing short of comforting and heartwarming' VEX KING 'While the drawings have t...

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The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence 'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinki...

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Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available toda...

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Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself an illusion? Am I conscious now? Now considered the 'last great mystery of science', consciousness was once viewed with extreme scepticism and rejected by mai...

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'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world arou...

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'Everyone should read this important book' Josh Glancy, Sunday Times 'One of the most important living philosophers' Bryan Appleyard, Spectator In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond re...

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read Rationality instead. It's cheaper, more entertaining, a...

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Vad formar vår identitet? Är medvetandet en illusion? Nya forskningsrön har satt fart på debatten om dessa frågor. Biologer, neurologer, psykologer och filosofer diskuterar nu medvetandets roll och innebörd. Susan Blackmore, gästföreläsare vid Uni...

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Hur blev vi medvetna varelser? Denna fråga har gäckat psykologer, fysiker, poeter och filosofer i århundraden. Hur har människans hjärna utvecklat dess unika förmåga till att skapa, drömma och förklara? Darwins lärjungar har länge försökt förklara...

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In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have ...

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How may we find happiness and peace? In this book, Rupert Spira distils the message of all the great religious and spiritual traditions into two essential truths: happiness is the very nature of our self or being, and we share our being with every...

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LOVED THE POWER OF NOW? Take Eckhart Tolle's wisdom wherever you go with this pocket collection of nearly 200 life-changing and inspirational passages FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON 'My No. 1 guru will always be Eckhart Tol...

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER One of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade 'Captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a sci...

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The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's mos...

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Describes the influence of spoken and written language and rational thinking on man's perception of the natural world around him.

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I denna essä klargör Martin Buber den antropologiska grundvalen för männis- kans förmåga att både möta andra i genuina relationer och uppnå självstän- dighet och oberoende. Självförverklig- ande är inte målet utan en biprodukt av relation, relatio...

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The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Fre...

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