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Author : Gordon Rattray Taylor
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:49015000618638
Author : Marcin Milkowski,Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781443865685
Naturalism is currently the most vibrantly developing approach to philosophy, with naturalised methodologies being applied across all the philosophical disciplines. One of the areas naturalism has been focussing upon is the mind, traditionally viewed as a topic hard to reconcile with the naturalistic worldview. A number of questions have been pursued in this context. What is the place of the mind in the world? How should we study the mind as a natural phenomenon? What is the significance of cognitive science research for philosophical debates? In this book, philosophical questions about the mind are asked in the context of recent developments in cognitive science, evolutionary theory, psychology, and the project of naturalisation. Much of the focus is upon what we have learned by studying natural mental mechanisms as well as designing artificial ones. In the case of natural mental mechanisms, this includes consideration of such issues as the significance of deficits in these mechanisms for psychiatry. The significance of the evolutionary context for mental mechanisms as well as questions regarding rationality and wisdom is also explored. Mechanistic and functional models of the mind are used to throw new light on discussions regarding issues of explanation, reduction and the realisation of mental phenomena. Finally, naturalistic approaches are used to look anew at such traditional philosophical issues as the correspondence of mind to world and presuppositions of scientific research.
Author : James Robert Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134865796
Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though most scientists and philosophers would admit their great importance, there has been very little serious study of them. This volume is the first book-length investigation of thought experiments. Starting with Galileo's argument on falling bodies, Brown describes numerous examples of the most influential thought experiments from the history of science. Following this introduction to the subject, some substantial and provocative claims are made, the principle being that some thought experiments should be understood in the same way that platonists understand mathematical activity: as an intellectual grasp of an independently existing abstract realm. With its clarity of style and structure, The Laboratory of the Mind will find readers among all philosophers of science as well as scientists who have puzzled over how thought experiments work.
Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780143127741
Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.
Author : William R. Sickles
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1560725168
This book is a simple explanation of how the mind evolved. One of the many interesting facts emerging from this study is that vision appeared long before there was any brain of significance. Perception therefore had to be direct awareness of forms, patterning, smells, and so on. Survival depended on sensory input being an immediate representation of reality. The world as seen could not have been something pieced together and mulled over in a brain which didn't exist. Memory and learning are said to occur at a molecular level for much the same reasons. Today's social insects exhibit enormously complex behaviour, yet their brains are microscopic. All such facts, gleaned from both the past and present, have a major impact upon theories about how our own minds operate.
Author : Andrew Whiten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Attribution (Social psychology)
ISBN : OCLC:1349253945
Author : Lissa Rankin
Publisher : Hay House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781401939991
Presents evidence from medical journals that beliefs, thoughts, and feelings can cure the body and shows readers how to apply this knowledge in their own lives. -- provided by publisher.
Author : C. B. Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199234103
What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical. C. B. Martin, an original and influential exponent of 'ontologically serious' metaphysics, echoes Locke's dictum that 'all things that exist are only particulars', and argues thatproperties are powerful qualities. He also spells out the implications of this view for philosophical conceptions of causation, intentionality, consciousness, and the mind-body problem.Martin emphasizes the importance of non-conscious 'vegetative' systems, which provide clear examples of intentionality in the form of representational use. The slide from representational use to consciousness involves a change in the material of use, but not the form of representation. A concluding chapter provides an argument for the view that an ontology of particular substances and properties leads ineluctably to monism: the bus we board with Locke takes us directly to the world of Spinozaand Einstein. Along the way, we are led to understand the nature of minds and conscious states of mind in a way that avoids both reductionism (the idea that mental is reducible to the non-mental) and dualism (the idea that mental substances or properties differ dramatically from physical substancesand properties).
Author : Marvin Minsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780671657130
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Author : Rodney Devenish
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781300629412
Dzogchen Mahamudra and the Dynamic Awakening of Consciousness: the core practice, the highest approach to immediate enlightenment via the rapid path of Natural Mind Meditation, this text begins at the very beginning while aiming to take the path of Vision through all the stages of higher Development, culminating at the level of No More Seeking. The instruction is clearly based on ancient authoritative tradition, but now at long last taught by a skilled Western expert in the field of spiritual counseling, Buddhist psychotherapy and Mahamudra Meditation, thus making a book that is ideal for the Western reader. The context for this practice is set within the wider scope of human evolution, its sources in the Ancient Wisdom, and the Wisdom Teachings of the world's great religions.
Author : Alfred Smee
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385247734
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Donald L. Wilson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781462044726
You "run" on 10% of your mind. Imagine what you could do with the other 90%. TOTAL MIND POWER is a foolproof, effortless, step-by-step procedure for using the "idling" 90% of your mind to solve specific practical problems... Learn Quickly.Remember Names.Stop Smoking.Enjoy Sex.Lose Weight.Retard Aging.Improve Health. Increase Memory Control. Developed from the latest scientific research, TOTAL MIND POWER is not a theory, not a meditative program or self-help peptalk - it is practicing physician's proven method of focusing awareness for short period of time to achieve increased mind-power immediately. It works and it will work for you. www.totalmindpower.com
Author : Charles T. Wolfe,Paolo Pecere,Antonio Clericuzio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031070365
This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It is of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories.
Author : Greg Lukianoff,Jonathan Haidt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780735224902
Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths are incompatible with basic psychological principles, as well as ancient wisdom from many cultures. They interfere with healthy development. Anyone who embraces these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—is less likely to become an autonomous adult able to navigate the bumpy road of life. Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to produce these untruths. They situate the conflicts on campus in the context of America’s rapidly rising political polarization, including a rise in hate crimes and off-campus provocation. They explore changes in childhood including the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines.
Author : Daniel G. Amen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780748119127
When your brain works right, so do you. When it's out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse. Yet amid all the advice about how to keep the rest of our body strong and healthy, we hear very little about how to keep the most complex and magnificent organ of all - the human brain - in top working order. In MAGNIFICENT MIND AT ANY AGE Daniel Amen demonstrates that the true key to satisfaction and success at any age is a healthy brain. By optimising our brain function we can all develop the qualities of a magnificent mind, such as increased memory and concentration; the ability to maintain warm and satisfying relationships and better impulse control and mastery over potential addictions. Daniel Amen demonstrates how to develop a healthy brain through diet, natural supplements, vitamins, exercise, positive thinking habits, and, if necessary, medication. He also pinpoints specific ways to tailor your behaviour, nutrition and lifestyle to deal with common mental challenges such as memory problems, anxiety and depression, attention deficit disorder, and insomnia.