Books in the Topics in Philosophy series

The challenge of explaining the emotions has engaged the attention of the best minds in philosophy and science throughout history. This book approaches the problem of characterizing and classifying emotions from the perspectives of neurophysiology, psychology, and social psychology as well as that of philosophical psychology.

Brings together the contributions of various philosophers to the topic of personal identity. This book features essays ranging from John Locke's seventeenth-century attempt to analyze personal identity in terms of memory, to twentieth-century defenses and criticisms of the Lockean view by Anthony Quinton, Sydney Shoemaker, and David Hume.

Contributing essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action, this book presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in "Personal Identity".

Students of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as wishful thinking, bad faith, and false consciousness. The book has six sections, each exploring self-deception and related phenomena from a different perspective.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.