[PDF] A History Of The Mind eBook

Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1999-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387987194

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This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the "phantom pain" experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of "blindsight," Humphrey argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states and that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestors'bodily responses to pain and pleasure. "Humphrey is one of that growing band of scientists who beat literary folk at their own game"-RICHARD DAWKINS "A wonderful bookbrilliant, unsettling, and beautifully written. Humphrey cuts bravely through the currents of contemporary thinking, opening up new vistas on old problems offering a feast of provocative ideas." -DANIEL DENNETT

Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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Takes the reader to the very edges of current knowledge and back to the beginning of time, before "mind" existed; the author constructs a history of consciousness. Nicholas Humphrey's previous books include "Four Minutes to Midnight", "Consciousness Regained" and "The Inner Eye".

Author : William H. Calvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195159071

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The Brief History of Mind offers an exhilarating account of the evolution of the human brain from simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago.

Author : David Martel Johnson
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812695366

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How History Made the Mind, David Martel Johnson argues that what we now think of as "reason" or "objective thinking" is not a natural product of the existence of an enlarged brain or culmination of innate biological tendencies. Rather, it is a way of learning to use the brain that runs counter to the natural characteristics involved in being an animal, a mammal, and a primate. Johnson defends his theory of mind as a cultural artifact against objections, and uses it to question a number of currently fashionable positions in philosophy of mind, known theories of Julian Jaynes, which Johnson argues go too far in the direction of emphasizing the dissimilarities between ancient and modern ways of thinking.

Author : Stephen T. Casper
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1580465951

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How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience?

Author : E. Bruce Goldstein
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262358778

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An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain--often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions--what is the mind? and what is consciousness?--and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.

Author : Anna Marmodoro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316856631

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The mind-body relation was at the forefront of philosophy and theology in late antiquity, a time of great intellectual innovation. This volume, the first integrated history of this important topic, explores ideas about mind and body during this period, considering both pagan and Christian thought about issues such as resurrection, incarnation and asceticism. A series of chapters presents cutting-edge research from multiple perspectives, including history, philosophy, classics and theology. Several chapters survey wider themes which provide context for detailed studies of the work of individual philosophers including Numenius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Damascius and Augustine. Wide-ranging and accessible, with translations given for all texts in the original language, this book will be essential for students and scholars of late antique thought, the history of religion and theology, and the philosophy of mind.

Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107176018

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The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.

Author : Richard Ingalese
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 160206329X

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A great student of the Science of Mind, Richard Ingalese frequently lectured on New Thought and topics of mental therapeutics. The History and Power of Mind is a collection of many of his lectures and articles, first published in 1902, with Ingalese's own annotations and expansions. Difficult subjects to wrangle, from self-control to hypnotism to self-healing, were not a problem for the articulate and charismatic Ingalese, who brings insight and intelligence to esoteric ideas and puts them in a practical and applicable context that demystifies mental and psychic phenomena for the intellectual reader curious about the mind, how it works, and what it can do. American lawyer RICHARD INGALESE (b. 1854) was a self-taught alchemist and proponent of New Thought. He claimed to have confected the true Philosopher's Stone, which confers immortality and turns common metals into gold, and disappeared, along with his wife, a psychic and healer, sometime in the early 20th century. Before their disappearance, Ingalese authored several articles and books, including Fragments of Truth (1921), Astrology and Health (1927), and Cosmogony and Evolution (1907).