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Author : John Wisdom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Other Minds written by John Wisdom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertram F. Malle
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1593854684
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Other Minds written by Bertram F. Malle and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy present theories and findings on understanding how individuals infer such complex mental states as beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions.
Author : Anita Avramides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135199388
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Other Minds written by Anita Avramides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-12-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know whether there are other minds besides our own? The problem of other minds raises many questions which are at the root of all philosophical investigations - how it is we know, what is the mind and can we be certain about any of our beliefs? In this compelling analysis of 'other minds' Anita Avramides traces the question from the Ancient Sceptics through to Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, Berkeley, Reid and Wittgenstein. The second part of the book explores the views of influential contemporary philosophers such as Strawson, Davidson, Nagel and Searle. Other Minds provides a clear insightful introduction to one of the most important problems in philosophy. It will prove invaluable to all students of philosophy.
Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712808
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Other Minds written by Peter Godfrey-Smith and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys. But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually “think for themselves”? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia? By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind—and on our own.
Author : Simon Baron-Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199692971
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Understanding Other Minds written by Simon Baron-Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its previous two editions, Understanding Other Minds has established itself as a classic text on autism and theory of mind. In the 15 years since the last edition was prepared, the neuroimaging literature on "theory of mind" has expanded significantly, revealing new brain regions and their role in regard to "theory of mind". Other major changes include developments in the study of infants and in the fields of hormones and genetics. Such studies have revealed evidence of both heritability (from twin studies), some molecular genetic associations, and a specific role for both sex steroid hormones (such as foetal testosterone) and neuropeptide hormones, such as oxytocin. The new edition brings together an international team of leading writers and researchers from psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and philosophy to present a state-of-the-art review of scientific research in this important field - one that will be essential for all those involved in the fields of developmental psychology and neuroscience, as well as psychiatrists and philosophers.
Author : Allen Sargent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967483108
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book The Other Mind's Eye written by Allen Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Last! A User's Manual for both sides of your Brain! Sargent's book offers a revolution in brain research, identifying and describing a second "mind's eye" - and provides the tools to access it. Visualization is the key to identifying and then getting what you want in your life. Sargent's discovery allows us to see our lives from both sides of the brain. Accessing this second hemisphere opens doors that we didn't even know existed - until now. Written in a workshop format, the book takes readers through a step-by-step process to create dramatic and lasting changes. These extend to areas of education/learning, personal goals, health and wellness, leadership, and relationships. With the information available from both hemispheres of the brain, readers can achieve greater congruence, align their actions and their goals, release unwanted habits, and unhook from people who push their buttons. Manifest your dreams!
Author : Soren Overgaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135198152
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Wittgenstein and Other Minds written by Soren Overgaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new approach to the problem that has haunted twentieth century philosophy in both its analytical and continental shapes. No other book addresses as thoroughly the parallels between Wittgenstein and leading Continental philosophers such as Levinas, Husserl, and Heidegger.
Author : Douglas E Richards
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1783013281
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Mind's Eye written by Douglas E Richards and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Hall has no memory and is being hunted by ruthless killers. He soon discovers he has brain implants allowing him to surf the web with his thoughts alone, and read minds. But who planted the implants? And why? The answers can either catapult civilization to new heights-or bring society to its knees. (Extrapolated from actual research).
Author : John Peter DiIulio
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691235864
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Completely Free written by John Peter DiIulio and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original, unified reconstruction of Mill’s moral and political philosophy—one that finally reveals its consistency and full power Few thinkers have been as influential as John Stuart Mill, whose philosophy has arguably defined Utilitarian ethics and modern liberalism. But fewer still have been subject to as much criticism for perceived ambiguities and inconsistencies. In Completely Free, John Peter DiIulio offers an ambitious and comprehensive new reading that explains how Mill’s ethical, moral, and political ideas are all part of a unified, coherent, and powerful philosophy. Almost every aspect of Mill’s practical philosophy has been charged with contradictions, illogic, or incoherence. Most notoriously, Mill claims an absolute commitment both to promoting societal happiness and to defending individual liberty—a commitment that many critics believe must ultimately devolve into an either/or. DiIulio resolves these and other problems by reconsidering and reconstructing the key components of Mill’s practical thought: his theories of happiness, morality, liberty, and freedom. Casting new light on old texts, DiIulio argues that Mill’s Utilitarianism and liberalism are not only compatible but philosophically wedded, that his theories naturally emanate from one another, and that the vast majority of interpretive mysteries surrounding Mill can be readily demystified. In a manner at once sympathetic and critical, DiIulio seeks to present Mill in his most lucid and potent form. From the higher pleasures and moral impartiality to free speech and nondomination, Completely Free provides an unmatched account of the unity and power of Mill’s enduring moral and political thought.
Author : Bennett Sims
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
ISBN 13 : 1953387365
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Other Minds and Other Stories written by Bennett Sims and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy and dread. A well-meaning locavore tries to butcher his backyard chickens humanely, only to find himself absorbed into the absurd violence of the pecking order. A student applying for a philosophy fellowship struggles to project himself into the thoughts of his hypothetical judges, becoming increasingly possessed and overpowered by the problem of other minds. And in “The Postcard,” a private detective is hired to investigate a posthumous message that a widower has seemingly received from his dead wife, leading him into a foggy landscape of lost memories, shifting identities, and strange doublings. Cerebral and eerie, captivating and profound, these twelve stories expertly guide us through the paranoia and obsession of everyday horrors, not least the horrors of overthinking what other people might be thinking. With all of Sims’s trademark virtuosity, innovation, and wit, Other Minds and Other Stories continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
Author : Christopher G. Nuttall
Publisher : Elsewhen Press
ISBN 13 : 1908168579
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Mind’s Eye written by Christopher G. Nuttall and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, men have been dreaming of telepathy, the power to read and influence the minds of others. Now, all around the world, telepaths are finally starting to appear. Men and women are developing awesome powers with the potential to dramatically change society. Governments are soon starting to become aware of them, even recruiting them, while striving to keep knowledge of their abilities hidden from the general public. Academic researchers too are discovering telepaths and it isn’t long before awareness of their existence starts to spread. But non-telepaths, ordinary people, don’t want to have their minds read or controlled; the telepaths soon find themselves widely regarded with fear and hatred. Inevitably, some of them want to fight back.
Author : Harold H. Saunders
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400872715
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Other Walls written by Harold H. Saunders and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on intensive firsthand experience gained during the most successful years of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Harold Saunders explains the complexities of the peace process: it was not just a series of negotiated agreements but negotiation embedded in a larger political process. In the first edition of The Other Walls, Saunders argued persuasively that until leaders change the political environment by lowering the human and political barriers to peace, negotiators stand little chance. Now he places that focus on political process in the context of a new world—where familiar concepts of international relations no longer provide adequate explanations for events, and where the tools of statecraft do not produce expected results. In the wake of the Gulf War Saunders suggests how insights from earlier Arab-Israeli peace negotiations can lead to a broader regional process. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Naomi Eilan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514306
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds written by Naomi Eilan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of psychologists and philosophers present the latest research into the fascinating cognitive phenomenon of 'joint attention'. Some time around their first birthday most infants begin to engage in a behaviour that is designed to bring it about - say, by means of pointing or gaze-following - that their own and another person's attention are focused on the same object. Described as manifestations of an emerging capacity for joint attention, such triangulations between infant, adult and the world are often treated as a developmental landmark and have become the subject of intensive research among developmentalists and primatologists over the past decade. More recently, work on joint attention has also begun to attract the attention of philosophers. Fuelling researchers' interest in all these disciplines is the intuition that joint attention plays a foundational role in the emergence of communicative abilities, in children's developing understanding of the mind and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought. This book brings together, for the first time, philosophical and psychological perspectives on the nature and significance of the phenomenon, addressing issues such as: How should we explain the kind of mutual openness that joint attention seems to involve, i.e. the sense in which both child and adult are aware that they are attending to the same thing? What sort of grip on one's own and other people's mental states does such awareness involve, and how does it relate to later-emerging 'theory of mind' abilities? In what sense, if any, is the capacity to engage in joint attention with others unique to humans? How should we explain autistic children's seeming incapacity to engage in joint attention? What role, if any, does affect play in the achievement of joint attention? And what, if any, is the connection between participation in joint attention and grasp of the idea of an objective world? The book also contains an introductory chapter aimed at providing a framework for integrating different philosophical and psychological approaches to these questions.
Author : Anita Avramides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198794401
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Knowing Other Minds written by Anita Avramides and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we acquire knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others? Knowing Other Minds brings together ten original essays that address various questions in philosophy and in empirical cognitive science which arise from our everyday social interaction with other people.
Author : Meelayo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 166983736X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Fragments of the Mind’s Eye written by Meelayo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a science fiction story about a man reliving his past through a series of fragmented memories.
Author : Xingyun
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590560938
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Opening the Mind's Eye written by Xingyun and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us view the world through a murky filter, unaware that a glimpse through the lens of the Dharma removes the cloudiness, revealing brilliance, clarity, and indescribable joy. Venerable Master Hsing Yun has dedicated his life to helping innumerable people put on "Dharma glasses" and look at their precious lives through new eyes-eyes that see the true nature of the universe and human existence. In Opening the Mind's Eye, Master Hsing Yun invites us to find ease in every moment and "face life and the future with confidence and radiance." We discover that each moment of our lives has the potential to enshroud us in confusion, distress, and an atrophied mind, or to invite us into peace, joy, and boundless freedom. Through expounding upon basic teachings that help us understand conscious and conscientious Buddhist practices and perspectives, Opening the Mind's Eye gives us tools with which to access our true nature, realize its infinite dimensions, and manifest its perfection and beauty in every moment, bringing unlimited joy to ourselves and others. Book jacket.
Author : Anik Waldow
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826433049
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds written by Anik Waldow and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of other minds has widely been considered as a special problem within the debate about scepticism. If one cannot be sure that there is a world existing independent ly of one's mind, how can we be sure that there are minds - minds which we cannot even experience the way we experience material objects? This book shows, through a detailed examination of David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, that these concerns are unfounded. By focusing on Hume's discussion of sympathy - the ability to connect with the mental contents of other persons - Anik Waldow demonstrates that belief in other minds can be justified by the same means as belief in material objects. The book thus not only provides the first large-scale treatment of the function of the belief in other minds within the Treatise, thereby adding a new dimension to Hume's realism, but also serves as an invaluable guide to the complexity of the problem of other minds and its various responses in contemporary debate.
