Author: Jaegwon Kim
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: mind, causation, representation, mental, essay, physical, world, problem
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2000-01-31
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0262611538
ISBN-13: 9780262611534
This book, based on Jaegwon Kim’s 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher’s current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist sol
Author: Rocco J. Gennaro
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Keywords: mind, problem, brain, dialogue
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0872203328
ISBN-13: 9780872203327
Provides a clear and compelling overview of the mind-body problem suitable for both introductory students and those who have some background in the philosophy of mind. Topics include immortality; materlialism; Descartes’s ’Divisibility Argument’ for dualism; the Argument from introspection’; the problems with dualism; the interaction between mind and brain; parallelism; the ’type/token’ distinction within materialism; recent arguments against materialism and its ability to explain consciousness; the epistemological problem of other minds; the nature of induc
Author: Shunryu Suzuki
Publisher: Shambhala
Keywords: mind, library, shambhala, beginner, zen
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-10-10
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1590302672
ISBN-13: 9781590302675
A respected Zen master in Japan and founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, Shunryu Suzuki has blazed a path in American Buddhism like few others. He is the master who climbs down from the pages of the koan books and answers your questions face to face. If not face to face, you can at least find the answers as recorded in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, a transcription of juicy excerpts from his lectures. From diverse topics such as transience of the world, sudden enlightenment, and the nuts and bolts of meditation, Suzuki always returns to the idea of beginner’s mind, a recognition th
Author: Robert D. Rupert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: mind, philosophy, extended, systems, cognitive
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-08-19
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0195379454
ISBN-13: 9780195379457
Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint product of brain, body, and environment. The book focuses primarily on the hypothesis of extended cognition, which asserts that human cognitive processes literally comprise elements beyond the boundary of the human organism. Rupert argues that the only plausible way in which to demarcate cognitions is systems-based: cognitive states or processes are the states of the integrated set of mechanisms and capacities that
Author: Evan Thompso
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: mind, sciences, phenomenology, biology, life
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0674025113
ISBN-13: 9780674025110
How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in Mind in Life. Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy to argue that mind and life are more continuous than has previously been accepted, and that current explanations do not adequately address the myriad facets of the biology and
Author: Michael Ian Black
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Keywords: mind, over, face, blow, blowing, van, custom, essays
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1416964053
ISBN-13: 9781416964056
Get ready for the read of your life. Never before has a single book combined awesome vans, unicorns, Billy Joel, and erotic fiction in such a potent combination. A writing tour de force? Perhaps. A reading experience that will sear itself into your consciousness like a red-hot branding iron? Without question.Comedian and basic cable superstar Michael Ian Black unleashes the full fury of his astonishing intellect in this collection of short comic essays. My Custom Van is a no-holds-barred assault to the funny bone that will literally beat you into submission with hilarity*.How did he do it? How
Author: Michael Ian Black
Publisher: Gallery
Keywords: mind, over, face, blow, blowing, van, custom, essays
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-07-14
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1439153531
ISBN-13: 9781439153536
Get ready for the read of your life. Never before has a single book combined awesome vans, unicorns, Billy Joel, and erotic fiction in such a potent combination. A writing tour de force? Perhaps. A reading experience that will sear itself into your consciousness like a red-hot branding iron? Without question.Comedian and basic cable superstar Michael Ian Black unleashes the full fury of his astonishing intellect in this collection of short comic essays. My Custom Van is a no-holds-barred assault to the funny bone that will literally beat you into submission with hilarity*.How did he do it? How
