TY - BOOK AU - Noor Rizvi AU - Gitanjaly Chhabra AU - Prihana Vasishta PY - 2026 CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9781805845287 TI - Ways of Being, Ways of Seeing T2 - Reflections on Life, Mind, and Perception DO - 10.3726/b23773 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1705226 N2 - This book explores how human beings interpret reality through perception, reflection, and lived experience. Drawing on philosophical inquiry and interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines the ways meaning is shaped by mind, culture, and attentiveness to everyday life. Through reflective analysis, the book invites readers to consider that seeing is never neutral but is always informed by habits of thought, embodiment, and context. Rather than offering definitive answers, it opens a space for sustained reflection on how ways of being are influenced by ways of seeing, and how these orientations affect ethical understanding, self-awareness, and engagement with the world. KW - Perception, consciousness, lived experience, philosophy of mind, selfhood, cognition, reflective inquiry, embodiment, meaning-making, interdisciplinary humanities LA - English ER -