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.


Bauby, J.D. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. 2002.


Becker, E. The Denial of Death. 1997.


Blackmore, S. Conversations on Consciousness. 2006.


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.


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.


Cialdini, R.B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. 2006.


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.


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 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.


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.


Fuster, J.M. Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition. 2005.


Gazzaniga, M. The Ethical Brain. 2005.


Gazzaniga, M. The MInd’s Past. 2000.


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.


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.


Iacoboni, M. Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others. 2008.


James, W. The Principles of Psychology. 1890.


Kandel, E. The Principles of Neural Science. 2000.


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.


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.


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.


Pinker, S. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. 2003.


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.


Sacks, O. An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales. 1995.


Sacks, O. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. 1970.


Sagan, C. and Druyan A. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. 1992.


Schrödinger, E. What Is Life?: with “Mind and Matter” and “Autobiographical Sketches”. 1967.


Searle, J. Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power. 2006.


Searle, J.R. The Mystery of Consciousness. 1997.


Searle, J.R. The Rediscovery of the Mind. 1992.


Shanks, N. God the Devil, and Darwin.. December 10, 2003.


Shermer, M. Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design. 2006.


Silver, LM. Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life. 2006.


Solomon, A. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. 2002.


Styron, W. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. 1992.


Vertosick Jr., F. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery. 1996.


Wade, N. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors. 2007.


Wegner, DM. The Illusion of Conscious Will. 2003.


Wolpert. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief. 2007.