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The Mind As a Scientific Object

Author : Christina E. Erneling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349997
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Mind As a Scientific Object written by Christina E. Erneling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What holds together the various fields that are supposed to consititute the general intellectual discipline that people now call cognitive science? In this book, Erneling and Johnson identify two problems with defining this discipline. First, some theorists identify the common subject matter as the mind, but scientists and philosophers have not been able to agree on any single, satisfactory answer to the question of what the mind is. Second, those who speculate about the general characteristics that belong to cognitive science tend to assume that all the particular fields falling under the rubric--psychology, linguistics, biology, and son on--are of roughly equal value in their ability to shed light on the nature of mind. This book argues that all the cognitive science disciplines are not equally able to provide answers to ontological questions about the mind, but rather that only neurophysiology and cultural psychology are suited to answer these questions. However, since the cultural account of mind has long been ignored in favor of the neurophysiological account, Erneling and Johnson bring together contributions that focus especially on different versions of the cultural account of the mind.

Biographies of Scientific Objects

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226136721
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Biographies of Scientific Objects written by Lorraine Daston and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how whole domains of phenomena come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples from the natural and social sciences, ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, this book explores the ways in which scientific objects are both real and historical.

Falling for Science

Author : Sherry Turkle
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262201720
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Falling for Science written by Sherry Turkle and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific imaginations.

The Mind Object

Author : Edward G. Corrigan
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461631602
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Object written by Edward G. Corrigan and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Help People Who Have Only Their Minds to Love Can a person relate to his or her own mind as an object, depend upon it to the exclusion of other objects, idealize it, fear it, hate it? Can a person live out a life striving to attain the elusive power of the mind's perfection, yielding to its promise while sacrificing the body's truth? Winnicott was the first to describe how very early in life an individual can, in response to environmental failure, turn away from the body and its needs and establish "mental functioning as a thing in itself." Winnicott's elusive term, the mind-psyche, describes a subtle, yet fundamentally violent split in which the mind negates the role of the body, its feelings and functions, as the source of creative living. Later, Masud Khan elaborated on Winnicott's notions. This exciting book extends Winnicott's and Khan's ideas to introduce the concept of the mind object, a term that signifies the central dissociation of the mind separated from the body, as well as underscores its function. When the mind takes on a life of its own, it becomes an object–separate, as it were, from the self. And because it is an object that originates as a substitute for maternal care, it becomes an object of intense attachment, turned to for security, solace, and gratification. Having achieved the status of an independent object, the mind also can turn on the self, attacking, demeaning, and persecuting the individual. Once this object relationship is established, it organizes the self, providing an aura of omnipotence. However, this precocious, schizoid solution is an illusion, vulnerable to breakdown and its associated anxieties. Making a unique contribution, The Mind Object explores the dangers of knowing too much–the lure of the intellect–for the patient as well as for the therapist. The authors illuminate the complex pathological consequences that result from precocious solutions.

The Objects of Thought

Author : Tim Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199682747
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Objects of Thought written by Tim Crane and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Crane addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. He argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that to understand thought's representational power ('intentionality') we need to understand the representation of the non-existent.

Platonism and the Objects of Science

Author : Scott Berman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350080225
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Platonism and the Objects of Science written by Scott Berman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space and time? Or does science also require that there be additional things that are not located in space and time? Using clear examples, these are just some of the questions that Scott Berman explores as he shows why alternative theories such as Nominalism, Contemporary Aristotelianism, Constructivism, and Classical Aristotelianism, fall short. He demonstrates why the objects of scientific knowledge need to be not located in space or time if they are to do the explanatory work scientists need them to do. The result is a contemporary version of Platonism that provides us with the best way to explain what the objects of scientific understanding are, and how those non-spatiotemporal things relate to the spatiotemporal things of scientific experiments, as well as everything around us, including even ourselves.

Consciousness and Object

Author : Riccardo Manzotti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265097
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and Object written by Riccardo Manzotti and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked “What is a man?” and replied that a man is “a certain sort of material object”. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a mind-object identity theory is proposed in its place: to be conscious of an object is simply to be made of that object. Consciousness is physical but not neural. This groundbreaking hypothesis is supported by recent empirical findings in both perception and neuroscience, and is herein tested against a series of objections of both conceptual and empirical nature: the traditional mind-brain identity arguments from illusion, hallucinations, dreams, and mental imagery. The theory is then compared with existing externalist approaches including disjunctivism, realism, embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind. Can experience and objects be one and the same?

Materials of the Mind

Author : James Poskett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820645
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Materials of the Mind written by James Poskett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.

Entertaining Science Experiments with Everyday Objects

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486319113
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Science Experiments with Everyday Objects written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent popular science writer presents simple instructions for 100 illustrated experiments. Memorable, easily understood experiments illuminate principles related to astronomy, chemistry, physiology, psychology, mathematics, topology, probability, acoustics, other areas.

Disjunctivism

Author : Adrian Haddock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199231540
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Disjunctivism written by Adrian Haddock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disjunctivism is the focus of a lively debate spanning the philosophy of perception, epistemology, and the philosophy of action. Adrian Haddock and Fiona Macpherson present 17 specially written essays, which examine the different forms of disjunctivism and explore the connections between them.

The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge

Author : Charles T. Wolfe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048136865
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge written by Charles T. Wolfe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and by a dominant interest in mechanics and the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded former modes of empirical inquiry, from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation. This volume focuses on the development of empiricism as an interest in the body – as both the object of research and the subject of experience. Re-embodying empiricism shifts the focus of interest to the ‘life sciences’; medicine, physiology, natural history. In fact, many of the active members of the Royal Society were physicians, and a significant number of those, disciples of William Harvey and through him, inheritors of the empirical anatomy practices developed in Padua during the 16th century. Indeed, the primary research interests of the early Royal Society were concentrated on the body, human and animal, and its functions much more than on mechanics. Similarly, the Académie des Sciences directly contradicted its self-imposed mandate to investigate Nature in mechanistic fashion, devoting a significant portion of its Mémoires to questions concerning life, reproduction and monsters, consulting empirical botanists, apothecaries and chemists, and keeping closer to experience than to the Cartesian standards of well-founded knowledge. These highlighted empirical studies of the body, were central in a workshop in the beginning of 2009 organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney. The papers that were presented by some of the leading figures in this area are presented in this volume.

Congress of Arts and Science: Biology. Anthropology. Psychology. Sociology

Author : Howard Jason Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Congress of Arts and Science: Biology. Anthropology. Psychology. Sociology written by Howard Jason Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mind as a Scientific Object

Author : Christina E. Erneling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195139321
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Mind as a Scientific Object written by Christina E. Erneling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that all the cognitive science disciplines are not equally able to provide answers to ontological questions about the mind, but rather that only neurophysiology and cultural psychology are suited to answer these questions."--BOOK JACKET.

Shadows of the Mind

Author : Roger Penrose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195106466
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of the Mind written by Roger Penrose and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; and attempts to understand how such non-computational action might arise within scientifically comprehensive physical laws.

The Elements of Intellectual Science

Author : Noah Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Intellectual Science written by Noah Porter and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Being You

Author : Anil Seth
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524742880
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Being You written by Anil Seth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financial Times; A Best Philosophy Book of 2021—Five Books; A Best Book of 2021—The Economist Anil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science. What does it mean to “be you”—that is, to have a specific, conscious experience of the world around you and yourself within it? There may be no more elusive or fascinating question. Historically, humanity has considered the nature of consciousness to be a primarily spiritual or philosophical inquiry, but scientific research is now mapping out compelling biological theories and explanations for consciousness and selfhood. Now, internationally renowned neuroscience professor, researcher, and author Anil Seth is offers a window into our consciousness in BEING YOU: A New Science of Consciousness. Anil Seth is both a leading expert on the neuroscience of consciousness and one of most prominent spokespeople for this relatively new field of science. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness. Seth has been interviewed for documentaries aired on the BBC, Netflix, and Amazon and podcasts by Sam Harris, Russell Brand, and Chris Anderson, and his 2017 TED Talk on the topic has been viewed over 11 million times, a testament to his uncanny ability to make unimaginably complex science accessible and entertaining.