Mind category: 7783 books
The Disordered Mind
An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, second edition examines and explains, from a philosophical standpoint, what mental disorder is: its reality, causes, consequences, and more. It is also an outstanding introduction to philosophy of mind from the perspective...
Feeling Extended
Sociality as Extended Body-Becoming-Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
A new view of the extended mind thesis argues that a stark binary opposition between really extending and seeming to extend oversimplifies the issue.
The extended-mind thesis (EMT), usually attributed to Andy Clark and David Chalmers, proposes that in specific kinds of mind-body-world interaction...
The Mind and the Brain
Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain.
Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect...
Mind Beyond Matter
How the Non-Material Self Can Explain the Phenomenon of Consciousness and Complete Our Understanding of Reality.
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
What if it turned out that we weren't just bodies with brains, but embodied souls, and that this explained a whole lot about our psychology and the fundamental nature of reality? Cosmologists now agree that two thirds of the universe is invisible and non-material. They call this invisible substance...
LOT 2 : The Language of Thought Revisited
The Language of Thought Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain....
by Zoltan Torey
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech.
How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy,...
by Bill Moyers
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
At last, the paperback edition of the monumental best-seller (almost half a million copies in print!) that has changed the way Americans think about sickness and health -- the companion volume to the landmark PBS series of the same name. In a remarkably short period of time, Bill Moyers's Healing...
The Mind Inside Yang Style Tai Chi
Lao Liu Lu 22-Posture Short Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
USA Best Books Award FINALIST - 2016
This is the anticipated follow-up to the author’s previous work, The Mind Inside Tai Chi (YMAA, 2015). In this edition he turns his attention to Yang style, guiding you through the 22-step form with an eye for detail and a love of nuance.
“Tai...
Philosophy of Mind
A Comprehensive Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Philosophy of Mind introduces readers to one of the liveliest fields in contemporary philosophy by discussing mind-body problems and the various solutions to them. It provides a detailed yet balanced overview of the entire field that enables readers to jump immediately into current debates.
Treats...
by Ashok Vohra
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Philosophers since Descartes have felt themselves compelled to make a choice between mind and body. Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mind, first published in 1986, argues that there is no genuine epistemological problem of mind, and that the widespread philosophical scepticism with regard to our knowledge...
The Conscious Mind : In Search of a Fundamental Theory
In Search of a Fundamental Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1996
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers and we have...
The Literary Mind
The Origins of Thought and Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example,...
Meet Your Sexual Mind
The Interaction Betwen Instinct and Intellect and Its Impact on Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The Interactions Between Instinct and Intellect and its Impact on Human Behavior
Length: 200 Pages
The paradoxes of human sexuality although self-evident, have been difficult to explain through the conventional understanding of the human mind. A legitimate question to ask would be, if polygamy is...
Brain-Mind
From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Neural mechanisms are used to explain mental operations for analogy, action, intention, language,...