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Author : David Herman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803234987
An anthology that traces the representation of consciousness and mind creation in English literature from 700 to the present.
Author : Graham Macdonald,Cynthia Macdonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199583621
There have long been controversies about how minds can fit into a physical universe. In Emergence in Mind a distinguished group of philosophers discuss whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from physical processes. The discussion is extended to cover the role emergence may play in free will and agency, and in the special sciences.
Author : Anthony Freeman
Publisher : Imprint Academic
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0907845185
A collection of essays on the relation between the conscious mind and the body. In this text, philosopher Robert Van Gulick gives a clear overview and comparison on "emergent" and "reductive" approaches, while others discuss more detailed aspects.
Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191556753
Strong claims have been made for emergence as a new paradigm for understanding science, consciousness, and religion. Tracing the past history and current definitions of the concept, Clayton assesses the case for emergent phenomena in the natural world and their significance for philosophy and theology. Complex emergent phenomena require irreducible levels of explanation in physics, chemistry and biology. This pattern of emergence suggests a new approach to the problem of consciousness, which is neither reducible to brain states nor proof of a mental substance or soul. Although emergence does not entail classical theism, it is compatible with a variety of religious positions. Clayton concludes with a defence of emergentist panentheism and a Christian constructive theology consistent with the new sciences of emergence.
Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199291438
Strong claims have been made for emergence as a new paradigm for understanding science, consciousness, and religion. Tracing the past history and current definitions of the concept, Clayton assesses the case for emergent phenomena in the natural world and their significance for philosophy and theology. Complex emergent phenomena require irreducible levels of explanation in physics, chemistry and biology. This pattern of emergence suggests a new approach to the problem of consciousness, which is neither reducible to brain states nor proof of a mental substance or soul. Although emergence does not entail classical theism, it is compatible with a variety of religious positions. Clayton concludes with a defence of emergentist panentheism and a Christian constructive theology consistent with the new sciences of emergence.
Author : Laurence J. Kirmayer,Carol M. Worthman,Shinobu Kitayama,Robert Lemelson,Constance A. Cummings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108705960
Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure values, and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human, social, and biological sciences to explore culture, mind, and brain interactions and their impact on personal and societal issues. Contributors provide a fresh look at emerging concepts, models, and applications of the co-constitution of culture, mind, and brain. Chapters survey the latest theoretical and methodological insights alongside the challenges in this area, and describe how these new ideas are being applied in the sciences, humanities, arts, mental health, and everyday life. Readers will gain new appreciation of the ways in which our unique biology and cultural diversity shape behavior and experience, and our ongoing adaptation to a constantly changing world.
Author : Robert J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226712000
With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior. "Richards's book is now the obvious introduction to the history of ideas about mind and behavior in the nineteenth century."—Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement "Not since the publication of Michael Ghiselin's The Triumph of the Darwinian Method has there been such an ambitious, challenging, and methodologically self-conscious interpretation of the rise and development and evolutionary theories and Darwin's role therein."—John C. Greene, Science "His book . . . triumphantly achieves the goal of all great scholarship: it not only informs us, but shows us why becoming thus informed is essential to understanding our own issues and projects."—Daniel C. Dennett, Philosophy of Science
Author : Robert K. Logan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442691803
The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture. Building on his previous study, The Sixth Language (2000) and making use of emergence theory, Logan seeks to explain how language emerged to deal with the complexity of hominid existence brought about by tool-making, control of fire, social intelligence, coordinated hunting and gathering, and mimetic communication. The resulting emergence of language, he argues, signifies a fundamental change in the functioning of the human mind - a shift from percept-based thought to concept-based thought. From the perspective of the Extended Mind model, Logan provides an alternative to and critique of Noam Chomsky's approach to the origin of language. He argues that language can be treated as an organism that evolved to be easily acquired, obviating the need for the hard-wiring of Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device. In addition Logan shows how, according to this model, culture itself can be treated as an organism that has evolved to be easily attained, revealing the universality of human culture as well as providing an insight as to how altruism might have originated. Bringing timely insights to a fascinating field of inquiry, The Extended Mind will be sure to find a wide readership.
Author : Hugo Lagercrantz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319448459
This book discusses the main milestones of early brain development and the emergence of consciousness, within and outside the mother’s environment, with a particular focus on the preterm infant. These insights offer new perspectives on issues concerning fetal pain, awareness in newborns, and the effects of current digital media on the developing infant brain. Among the topics covered: · Brain patterning, neural proliferation, and migration. · The stress of being born and first breaths. · The stream of consciousness. · Parenting and stimulating the brain of the child. · The moral status of the fetus and the infant. Infant Brain Development is an excellent resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students across a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, pediatrics, neurobiology, neuroscience, obstetrics, nursing and medical ethics. It is written with historic and philosophical remarks of interest for a broad readership. --- “This book is a joy to read for anyone interested in understanding where biology is heading in the 21st century, and it is essential for those who work in child development.” Eric Kandel, University Professor, Columbia University, Co-Director, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Nobel Laureate in Medicine 2000 "With the precision of a scientist, the depth of a philosopher, and the heart and sensitivity of a pediatrician, Hugo Lagercrantz weaves a story as readable and engrossing as any mystery novel, linking brain, genes, the environment, and behavior to explain the development of the mind of a newborn. A tour de force!" Patricia K. Kuhl, The Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington “This book is a noble and valiant effort by Dr. Lagercrantz to explain the immensely complex issue of normal and pathological development of the human brain in simple terms that are accessible to the general public.” Pasko Rakic, Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine
Author : Ben Oofana
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450268547
Ben Oofana took off on his own at the age of seventeen to live among the native tribes of the American Southwest. Ben made it as far as Oklahoma where he landed among the Kiowa Indian tribe. Ben went on to apprentice with Horace Daukei, the last surviving traditional doctor or medicine man among the tribe. Ben apprenticed with Horace for three years and since that time he has continued to go alone into the mountains to do the vision quest. Feelings and memories of Ben's traumatic past began to surface during his mid twenties. It was during that time that Ben began to develop a series of practices that enabled him to awaken the innate healing power that resides within his own body and mind. These practices helped Ben to diffuse the painful feelings associated with anxiety and depression. Ben went on to develop other versions of these practices that help to alleviate the symptoms of digestive and respiratory disorders and a wide range of other health issues. Since that time, Ben has been teaching these practices to everyone that he works with. The practices that Ben shares throughout this book will help you to work through difficult issues and emotions and to heal your own body and mind. You will learn to use everything that happens in your life as part of your process of healing and spiritual growth. You will gain a clearer sense of direction in life. Working with these practices will also help you to will develop the resources that will enable you to fulfill your own life's purpose. Ben has also trained for years in the Internal Martial Arts with Shifu Li Tai Liang. He has spent a great deal of time in India and Sri Lanka and has been studying numerous traditional systems of healing and spiritual development. You will learn how these ancient systems can greatly accelerate your process of personal and spiritual development.
Author : Morales Otero, Juan Diego
Publisher : Centro Editorial de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789587833270
This book presents an ontologically and methodologically well founded Physicalist proposal that does not lose sight of the special particularity and alleged irreducibility of some of the most obvious phenomena of our existence, such as the human mind. The author provides a compelling argument against the most widely accepted interpretation of Physicalism, Microphysicalism. Morales argues in favor of Emergentism as a non-reductive physicalist proposal that explains the causal reality of higher-level properties as metaphysically dependent but not supervenient on their microphysical bases.
Author : Cynthia Macdonald,Graham Macdonald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191574573
There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe. Emergence in Mind presents new essays by a distinguished group of philosophers investigating whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from the physical processes in the universe. Such emergence requires mental properties to be different from physical properties, and much of the discussion relates to what the consequences of such a difference might be in areas such as freedom of the will, and the possibility of scientific explanations of non-physical (for example, social) phenomena. The volume also extends the debate about emergence by considering the independence of chemical properties from physical properties, and investigating what would need to be the case for there to be groups that could be said to exercise rationality.
Author : Graham Macdonald,Cynthia Macdonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Emergence
ISBN : 0191723487
There have long been controversies about how minds can fit into a physical universe. In 'Emergence in Mind' a distinguished group of philosophers discuss whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from physical processes.
Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780743218269
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web? In the coming years, the power of self-organization -- coupled with the connective technology of the Internet -- will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Provocative and engaging, Emergence puts you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.
Author : Katherine Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052162987X
This book discusses the role of language as a cognitive and communicative tool in a child's early development.