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Recommended Reading (A - Z): Philosophy
The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates
Block, N., O. Flanagan, and G. Güzeldere July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Amazon.com
Almost everyone agrees that we possess consciousness, but as this book demonstrates, that’s where the agreement ends. What can we say about the mind without fear of contradiction? Not much, and that’s how...
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Bok, S. July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
A thoughtful addition to the growing debate over public and private morality. Looks at lying and deception in law, family, medicine, government.
Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition
Casebeer, W.D. February 24, 2008. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
Chalmers, D.J July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
From Library Journal
Chalmers (philosophy, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz) analyzes the mind-body problem in terms of that elusive relationship between the physical brain and conscious events. Focusing on subjective...
Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind
Churchland, P.M. May 27, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
Churchland, P.M. May 27, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Churchland, P.M. May 27, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life
Dacey, A. March 3, 2008. #
Religion and Religious Criticism, Philosophy
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
Davidson, D July 27, 2007. #
Philosophy
Book Description
Donald Davidson presents a new edition of the 1984 volume which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation has been a central point of reference...
Breaking the Spell
Dennett, D July 27, 2007. #
Religion and Religious Criticism, Philosophy
From Publishers Weekly
In his characteristically provocative fashion, Dennett, author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, calls for a scientific, rational...
Consciousness Explained
Dennett, D.C July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Amazon.com
Consciousness is notoriously difficult to explain. On one hand, there are facts about conscious experience—the way clarinets sound, the way lemonade tastes—that we know subjectively, from the inside. On the...
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Dennett, D.C July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Amazon.com
One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to...
The Mental and the Physical: The Essay and a Postscript
Feigl, H. May 27, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Self-Deception
Fingarette, H July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Book Description
With a new chapter
This new edition of Herbert Fingarette’s classic study in philosophical psychology now includes a provocative recent essay on the topic by the author. A seminal work, the book has...
The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them
Flanagan, O August 13, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
Flanagan, O. May 27, 2010. #
Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Glover, J August 2, 2007. #
Politics and History, Philosophy
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Gregory, R July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Amazon.com
A field of 216 contributors filled this tome with savory items from Abacus to Zeno of Elea. In between there are 819 pages of 1001 entries, all in some way expanding our understanding of psychology,...
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
Gross, PR and N Levitt August 10, 2007. #
