Esprit et corps

The body: toward an Eastern mind-body theory

by Yuasa, Yasuo

fromSUNY series in Buddhist studies

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"This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows that Eastern philosophy has generally formulated its view of mind-body unity as an achievement a state to be acquired -- rather than…

Philosophy and the mirror of nature

by Rorty, Richard, Bromwich, David, Williams, Michael

fromPrinceton classic editions

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When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing th…

Consciousness: confessions of a romantic reductionist

by Koch, Christof

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"What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap betwe…

The rediscovery of the wild

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"We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature -- a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity of connecting with wild nature -- untamed, unmanaged, not encompassed, self-organizing, and unencumbered and …

The bodily self: selected essays on self-consciousness

by Bermúdez, José Luis

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"These essays explore how the rich and sophisticated forms of self-consciousness with which we are most familiar--as philosophers, psychologists, and as ordinary, reflective individuals--depend on a complex underpinning that has been largely invisible to students of the self and…

The spontaneous brain: from the mind-body to the world-brain problem

by Northoff, Georg

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Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem--whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book, Georg Nor…

The aesthetics of emotion: up the down staircase of the mind-body

by Cupchik, Gerald C.

fromStudies in emotion and social interaction

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Argues that relations between mind and body are analogous to thosebetween subject matter and style in art.

Mind in a physical world: an essay on the mind-body problem and mental caus…

by Kim, Jaegwon

fromRepresentation and mind

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This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind - in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of fin…

Matière et mémoire: essai sur la relation du corps à l'esprit

by Bergson, Henri

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L'esprit et la matière sont réels et on peut déterminer le rapport de l'un à l'autre à partir de l'exemple de la mémoire, dont il est constamment question dans l'histoire de la philosophie. Bergson se montre dans ce texte attentif à l'expérience immédiate : analyse des fonctions…