RSS Feed
Recommended Reading (A - Z): Mind and Life Sciences
Ainslie, G. Breakdown of Will. 2001.
Ariely, D.. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. 2008.
Baron, J.. Thinking and Deciding. 2007.
Baron-Cohen, S.. Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind. 1997.
Bauby, J.D. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. 2002.
Becker, E. The Denial of Death. 1997.
Blackmore, S. Conversations on Consciousness. 2006.
Blair, J. et al.. The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain. 2005.
Blakemore, C. and S. Jennett (Eds.). The Oxford Companion to the Body. 2002.
Block, N., O. Flanagan, and G. Güzeldere. The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates. 1998.
Broks, P.. Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology. 2004.
Burton, R.. On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not. 2009.
Carter, R. Mapping the Mind. 2000.
Casebeer, W.D.. Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition. 2005.
Chalmers, D.J. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. 1997.
Changeux, JP. The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge. 2004.
Churchland, P.M.. Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. 1988.
Churchland, P.M.. The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain. 1996.
Churchland, P.M.. Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind. 1979.
Cialdini, R.B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. 2006.
Coren, S.. Sleep Thieves. 1996.
Craik, K.J.W.. The Nature of Explanation. 1943.
Crick, F. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. 1995.
Damasio, A. Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. 2005.
Damasio, A. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. 2003.
Damasio, A.. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. 2000.
Dawkins, R. Climbing Mount Improbable. 2006.
Dawkins, R. A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and LoveR. 2004.
Dawkins, R. The Selfish Gene. 2006.
de Grey, A.. Ending Aging. 2007.
De Waal, F. Primates and Philosophers. 2006.
Dennett, D.C. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. 1996.
Dennett, D.C. Consciousness Explained. 1992.
Dyson, F. Imagined Worlds. 1998.
Edelman, G.. Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness. 2004.
Edelman, G.. Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge. 2007.
Edelman, G.. Remembered Present: A Biological Theory Of Consciousness. 1990.
Edelman, G. & Tononi, G.. A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination. 2001.
Edgerton, R.B.. Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony. 1992.
Feigl, H.. The Mental and the Physical: The Essay and a Postscript. 1967.
Feinberg, T.E. Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self. 2002.
Fingarette, H. Self-Deception. 2000.
Flanagan, O. The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them. 2002.
Freud, S.. The Future of an Illusion. 1927.
Freud, S.. Civilization and Its Discontents. 1929.
Fromm, E.. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. 1992.
Fuster, J.M. Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition. 2005.
Gazzaniga, M. The Ethical Brain. 2005.
Gazzaniga, M. The MInd’s Past. 2000.
Gazzaniga, M.S.. Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique. 2009.
Gilbert, D.. Stumbling on Happiness. 2007.
Glynn, I. An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind. 2003.
Goffman, E. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 1959.
Goffman, E. Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. 1982.
Goffman, E. Behavior in Public Places. 1966.
Goldberg, E. The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. 2002.
Gregory, R. The Oxford Companion to the Mind. 2004.
Griffin, DR. Animal Minds. 1994.
Guttenplan, S.. A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. 1996.
Hare, R.D.. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. 1999.
Hauser, M. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong. 2006.
Hauser, M. Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. 2000.
Hofstadter, D.R. and D.C. Dennett. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections On Self and Soul. 1985.
Holyoak, K.J. (Ed) and Morrison, R.G. (Ed). The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. 2005.
Hood, B.M.. SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable. 2009.
Iacoboni, M. Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others. 2008.
James, W. The Principles of Psychology. 1890.
Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. 1982.
Kandel, E. The Principles of Neural Science. 2000.
Kolb, B. and Whishaw, I.Q.. Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology. 2008.
Kurzweil, R. The Age of Spiritual Machines. 2000.
LeDoux, J. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. 2003.
Levy, N.. Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century. 2007.
Llinas, R.R.. I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. 2002.
Marks, C.E.. Commissurotomy, Consciousness, and Unity of Mind. 1981.
McGinn, C. The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World. 2000.
McIntyre, L. Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human. September 1, 2006.
Medawar, P. The Threat and the Glory (Reflections on Science and Scientists). 1990.
Mele, A.R. Self-Deception Unmasked. 2001.
Metzinger, T. Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. 2003.
Metzinger, T (Ed). Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions. 2000.
Miller, W.I. Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence. 1993.
Miller, W.I. The Anatomy of Disgust. 1998.
Miller, W.I. Faking It. 2005.
Mlodinow, L.. The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. 2009.
Norretranders, T.. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size. 1999.
Nuland, S.B. How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter. 1995.
Penrose, R. The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. 1989.
Penrose, R. The Large, the Small and the Human Mind. 2000.
Penrose, R.. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. 1996.
Pinker, S. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. 2003.
Pinker, S.. How the Mind Works. 1997.
Popper, K. R., & Eccles, J. C. . The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism. 1977.
Pryse-Phillips, W.. Companion to Clinical Neurology. 2009.
Ramachandran, V.S. and Blakeslee, S. Phantoms in the Brain. 1998.
Rhodes, R. Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague. 1997.
Ridley, M. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. 1999.
Ridley, M. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human. 2003.
Rosenthal, D. The Nature of Mind. 1991.
Ryle, G.. The Concept of Mind. 1949.
