"What is a human person, and what is the relation between a person and his or her body? In her third book on the philosophy of mind, Lynne Rudder Baker investigates what she terms the person/body problem and offers a detailed account of the relation between human persons and the…
The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician-patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities. The basic theme of this book is that every person must accept a certain measure of responsibility for his or her own recovery from …
«Ce livre a pour objectif de nous faire comprendre et presque toucher du doigt les mécanismes de l'éveil. En effet, si ses mécanismes sont désormais bien connus, les liens étroits entre l'éveil et le sommeil restent mystérieux. Dans ce livre, nous aborderons aussi le problème de…
"Expressing painful emotions is hard--yet it can actually improve our mental and physical health. Distinguished psychologist James W. Pennebaker has spent decades studying what happens when people take just a few minutes to write about deeply felt personal experiences or problem…
"In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study about conceptual origins, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone shows that there is an indissoluble bond between hominid thinking and hominid evolution, a bond cemented by the living body. Her thesis is concretely illustrated in eight paleoanth…
Biologie de la conscience
by Edelmam, Gerald M., Gerschenfeld, Ana
fromBibliothèque (Editions Odile Jacob)
"Evan Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy to argue that mind and life are more continuous than has previously been …
"In Kinds of Minds, Dennett asks the ultimate metaphysical questions: What is a mind and who else (besides the questioner) has one?" "Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, explori…