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  • Free Will

    Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation

    Edited by Uri Maoz, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ...
    What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent of human free will for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of their own. Which neural mechanisms could enable conscious control of action? What are intentional actions? Do contemporary developments in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Reading in the Brain

    The New Science of How We Read

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Surfing Uncertainty

    Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

    by Andy Clark ...
    How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Brain and the Inner World

    An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

    by Mark Solms, Oliver Turnbull ...
    About this Book...The Brain and the Inner World is an eagerly-awaited account of a momentous revolution. Subjective mental states like consciousness, emotion, and dreaming were once confined to the realm of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences. These topics now assume center stage in leading neuroscientific laboratories around the world. This shift has produced an explosion of new ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Spring

    A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

    by Mark Solms ...
    A revelatory new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the center of mental life.For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime’s quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it seems an impossible task to understand why we feel a subjective sense of self and how it arises in the brain ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Feeling Brain

    Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis

    by Mark Solms ...
    Series series The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
    This book focuses on the matter of neuropsychoanalysis. It shows how the neuropsychoanalytic approach makes it possible to begin to locate within the tissues of the brain some of the metapsychological abstractions that Sigmund Freud derived from his work with purely psychiatric disorders. ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Bias

    How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options

    by Jan Lauwereyns ...
    An integrative account of the neural underpinnings of decision making, emphasizing the ways in which some information sources are given more weight than others.I will recklessly endeavor to scavenge materials from these various fields with the single aim of producing a coherent, but open-minded account of attention, or bias versus sensitivity, or how the activities of neurons allow us to decide ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness

    by Gerald Edelman ...
    How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted study and speculation across the ages. In this direct and non-technical discussion of consciousness, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman draws on a lifetime of scientific inquiry ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Consciousness

    Edited by William P. Banks ...
    Consciousness has long been a subject of interest in philosophy and religion but only relatively recently has it become subject to scientific investigation. Now, more than ever before, we are beginning to understand this mental state. Developmental psychologists understand when we first develop a sense of self; neuropsychologists see which parts of the brain activate when we think about ourselves ... Read more

    $899.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Consciousness

    Edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken ...
    Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. How does the brain's activity result in the rich phenomenology that characterizes our waking life? Are animals conscious? Why did consciousness evolve? How does science proceed to answer such questions? Can we define what consciousness is? Can we measure it? ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Mental Mechanisms

    Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience

    by William Bechtel ...
    A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But, until recently, the opportunities to conduct experiments directly on our brains were limited. As a result, research efforts were split between disciplines such as cognitive psychology, li ... Read more

    $76.99 USD