Product Description: In this volume, Geoffrey Madell develops a revised account of the self, making a compelling case for why the "simple" or "anti-criterial" view of personal identity warrants a robust defense. Madell critiques recent discussions of the self for focusing on features which are common to all selves, and which therefore fail to capture the uniqueness of each self...read more

Product Description: Philosophy, Music and Emotion explores two issues which have been intensively debated in contemporary philosophy: the nature of music's power to express emotion, and the nature of emotion itself. It shows how closely the two topics are related and provides a radically new account of what it means to say that music 'expresses emotion'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first clear and non-technical introduction to philosophy through the works of the 18th century philosopher, David Hume. It covers every major philosophical issue commented upon by Hume, from epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, to ethics and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion...read more

Product Description: This book deals with the materialist view of the nature of the mind. Geoffrey Madell outlines past and current materialist views and the arguments which have been put forward refuting these. He examines the four alleged "failures" in the materialist programme - the failure to make sense of intentionality of thought - the lack of a convincing explanation of the autonomy of psychology - the failure of materialism to take the essential subjectivity of experience into account - and the fact that materialism cannot account for indexical thought - thoughts centring on words like "this", "here" and "I"...read more

Product Description: Book by Madell, Geoffrey