Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective
sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what …

Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our
world. He uses a variety of tools—theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and …

Why do human beings move? In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske
provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explanation of …

To believe something, as contemporary analytic philosophers generally use the term
“belief,” is to take it to be the case or regard it as true. In this sense, many of our beliefs are …

Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space
semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation. In A Mark of the Mental, Karen …

In this book, TL Short corrects widespread misconceptions of Peirce's theory of signs and
demonstrates its relevance to contemporary analytic philosophy of language, mind and …

In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing
realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence …

The relation between subjective consciousness and the physical brain is widely regarded as
the last mystery facing science. This book argues that there is no real puzzle here …

Cognitive representation is the single most important explanatory notion in the sciences of
the mind and has served as the cornerstone for the so-called'cognitive revolution'. This book …

I clarify and defend the hypothesis that human belief formation is sensitive to social rewards
and punishments, such that beliefs are sometimes formed based on unconscious …