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“gerald m edelman”

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  • The Brain

    by Jean-Pierre Changeux, Gerald M. Edelman ...
    One of the vastly exciting areas in modern science involves the study of the brain. Recent research focuses not only on how the brain works but how it is related to what we normally call the mind, and throws new light on human behavior. Progress has been made in researching all that relates to interior man, why he thinks and feels as he does, what values he chooses to adopt, and what practices to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Universe Of Consciousness

    How Matter Becomes Imagination

    by Giulio Tononi, Gerald M. Edelman ...
    What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a full-scale theory of consciousness based on direct observation of the human brain in action. Their pioneering work, presented here ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge

    by Gerald M. Edelman ...
    Burgeoning advancements in brain science are opening up new perspectives on how we acquire knowledge. Indeed, it is now possible to explore consciousness-the very center of human concern-by scientific means. In this illuminating book, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman offers a new theory of knowledge based on striking scientific findings about how the brain works. And he addresses the related compelling ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

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  • How Literature Plays with the Brain

    The Neuroscience of Reading and Art

    by Paul B. Armstrong ...
    An original interdisciplinary study positioned at the intersection of literary theory and neuroscience."Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Mind in Life

    Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

    by Evan Thompson ...
    How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in Mind in Life.Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Understanding Consciousness

    by Max Velmans ...
    Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense. Building on the widely praised first edition, this new edition adds fresh research, and deepens the original analysis in a way that reflects some of the fundamental changes in the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • How the Mind Uses the Brain

    To Move the Body and Image the Universe

    by Ralph Ellis, Natika Newton ...
    The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. This book explains and argues for a new approach called enactivism. Enactivism maintains that consciousness and all subjective thoughts and feelings arise from an organism's attempts to use its environment in the service of purposeful action. The authors admit that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Matter and Consciousness, third edition

    by Paul M. Churchland ...
    An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Ecology of the Brain

    The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind

    by Thomas Fuchs ...
    Series series International Perspectives In Philosophy & Psychiatry
    Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a collective, a living being which uses the brain to mediate interactions. Those interactions may be both within the human body and between the human ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • The Feeling Body

    Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind

    by Giovanna Colombetti ...
    A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science—the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism

    On the Accessibility of Mental Processes

    by William R. Uttal ...
    Series series Scientific Psychology Series
    This book considers one of the most fundamental, but only infrequently considered, issues in psychology--Are mental processes accessible by means of verbal reports and/or experimental assays? It is argues that this is the main characteristic distinguishing between behaviorism and mentalistic cognitivism. The answer posed by the author is that, with few exceptions and for the most fundamental ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

    Edited by Susan Schneider, Max Velmans ...
    Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the fieldIncludes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters ... Read more

    $58.00 USD