Mind & Body

Lama Surya Das, a leading spokesperson for the emerging Western Buddhism, is a Dzogchen lineage holder and the founder of the Dzogchen Foundation. He leads lectures and retreats worldwide and regularly organizes the annual Western Buddhist Teachers Conference

The cost of "health care" is skyrocketing because medical research creates disease through statistical correlation rather than cause and effect relationships. Dr. Affolter calls it pseudo-scientific, statistical non-sense. He then makes the case for re-evaluating

Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus advances a new explanation for the apparent failure of the Theaetetus to come to a satisfactory conclusion about the definition of knowledge. Tschemplik argues that understanding this aporeticdialogue

Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things when they are presented to us through syntax.

This book deals with the major philosophical issues in the theoretical framework of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in particular and cognitive science in general. The researchers in AI are concerned with the issues of consciousness, human subjectivity, creativity,

"You must listen to learn. And when you speak, also listen. If you are willing, you may be surprised what you will learn."** This collection of maxims--and their associated essays--was the result of spontaneous responses to a troubled friend with an uncanny

We’re used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created

This book is an endeavor to raise mankind's knowledge concerning his origins and purpose within the universe. Also, that he is not, nor was ever alone in this battle. There were and still are other worldly beings who have watched and assisted throughout

This book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination