Origins And Ends Of The Mind
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Origins And Ends Of The Mind
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Author : Christian Kerslake
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2007
Origins And Ends Of The Mind written by Christian Kerslake and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
Figures of the Unconscious 7In Origins and Ends of the Mind, a collection of theoretical essays by philosophers and psychoanalysts, encounters are arranged between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis on the one hand and attachment theory, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy of mind on the other. Psychoanalysts claim that states of mind are inexorably structured by children's relationships with their parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology, and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently reintroduced the claim that mental development and pathology are to a large degree determined by innate factors. Today, Lacanian psychoanalysis most vigorously defends psychoanalytic theory and practice from the encroachment of the biomedical and cognitive sciences. However, classical psychoanalytic theories--the Oedipus complex, primary and secondary repression, sexual difference, and the role of symbols--are being dismantled and reintegrated into a new synthesis of biological and psychological theories.
Origins Of The Mind
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Author : Charles Furst
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1979
Origins Of The Mind written by Charles Furst and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Brain categories.
How is it possible for people to remember past events or visualize future ones? Why have only humans mastered the use of language? What are the physical processes of the different states of consciousness - seeing, waking, sleeping, dreaming, thinking, and others? Origins of the Mind answers these and other questions as it explain the relationship between mind and body and describes the physical basis for the functions of the human brain.
Origins Of Mind
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Author : Liz Swan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-22
Origins Of Mind written by Liz Swan and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-22 with Science categories.
The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects the field’s strong representation in microbiology and embryology. What philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists can contribute to the growing interdiscipline are insights into how the biosemiotic weltanschauung applies to complex organisms like humans where such signs and sign processes constitute human society and culture.
Origins Of The Modern Mind
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Author : Merlin Donald
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1993-03-15
Origins Of The Modern Mind written by Merlin Donald and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-15 with Science categories.
This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.
An Anatomy Of Thought
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Author : Ian Glynn
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
An Anatomy Of Thought written by Ian Glynn and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Medical categories.
Drawing on a dazzlingly wide array of disciplines--physiology, neurology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy--the renowned Cambridge scientist Ian Glynn presents a tour-de-force exploration of the workings of the human mind. 48 line drawings.
Mind Its Origin And Goal
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Author : George Barton Cutten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Mind Its Origin And Goal written by George Barton Cutten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Evolution categories.
Children S Early Understanding Of Mind
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Author : Charlie Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Children S Early Understanding Of Mind written by Charlie Lewis and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Psychology categories.
A major feature of human intelligence is that it allows us to contemplate mental life. Such an understanding is vital in enabling us to function effectively in social groups. This book examines the origins of this aspect of human intelligence. The five sections attempt firstly, to place human development within an evolutionary context, focusing on the possibility of innate components of understanding. The second aim of the book is to examine the roles of early perception, pretence and communication as precursor skills in the development of a grasp of mental states. Thirdly, attention is given to the possibility that children know a good deal more about the mind than is apparent from many studies designed to probe their abilities. Taken together, the chapters in this book mark a new focus within a 'theory of mind' movement, examining a group of skills in infancy and early childhood which culminate towards the end of the preschool period in a more mature understanding of one's and others' mental states. Drawing together researchers from diverse theoretical positions, the aim is to work towards a coherent and unified account of this fundamental human abiity. This book will be of central relevance to psychologists and those in related disciplines, particularly education and philosophy.
Evolving The Mind
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Author : A. Graham Cairns-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-04-02
Evolving The Mind written by A. Graham Cairns-Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-02 with Philosophy categories.
Evolving the Mind has two main themes: how ideas about the mind evolved in science; and how the mind itself evolved in nature. The mind came into physical science when it was realised, first, that it is the activity of a physical object, a brain, which makes a mind; and secondly, that our theories of nature are largely mental constructions, artificial extensions of an inner model of the world which we inherited from our distant ancestors. From both of these perspectives, consciousness is the great enigma. If consciousness evolved, however, it is in some sense a material thing whatever else may be said of it. Physics, chemistry, molecular biology, brain function and evolutionary biology - almost the whole of science - is involved, and there can be no expert in all these fields. So the style of the book is simple, almost conversational. The excitement is that we seem to be close to a scientific theory of consciousness.
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
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Author : Julian Jaynes
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2000-08-15
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-15 with Psychology categories.
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
The Hungry Mind
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Author : Susan Engel
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-09
The Hungry Mind written by Susan Engel and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-09 with Psychology categories.
Despite American education’s recent mania for standardized tests, testing misses what really matters about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Curiosity is vital, but it remains a surprisingly understudied characteristic. The Hungry Mind is a deeply researched, highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how it can be fostered in school. “Engel draws on the latest social science research and incidents from her own life to understand why curiosity is nearly universal in babies, pervasive in early childhood, and less evident in school...Engel’s most important finding is that most classroom environments discourage curiosity...In an era that prizes quantifiable results, a pedagogy that privileges curiosity is not likely to be a priority.” —Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today “Susan Engel’s The Hungry Mind, a book which engages in depth with how our interest and desire to explore the world evolves, makes a valuable contribution not only to the body of academic literature on the developmental and educational psychology of children, but also to our knowledge on why and how we learn.” —Inez von Weitershausen, LSE Review of Books
