Product Description: Intentionality - the relationship between conscious states and their objects - is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and the study of consciousness. Long a foundational concept in Phenomenology, it has also received considerable coverage in the writings of analytic philosophers...read more

Product Description: Exploring the 'roads less travelled', MacDonald continues his monumental essay in the history of ideas. The history of heterodox ideas about the concept of mind takes the reader from the earliest records about human nature in Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and the Zoroastrian religion, through the secret teachings in the Hermetic and Gnostic scriptures, and into the transformation of ideas about the mind, soul and spirit in the late antique and early medieval epochs...read more

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Product Description: This book explores the profound influence of Descartes philosophy on Husserl s project for phenomenology. Husserl often cited Descartes as his spiritual mentor and the systematic doubt of the Meditations became one of the principal points of departure for beginning phenomenological investigations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)