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Agostino Nifo De intellectu

by Spruit, Leen, Nifo, Agostino

fromBrill's studies in intellectual history

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"In 1503, Nifo published De intellectu, the major work of his early career, touching on questions of philosophical psychology. Based on a detailed assessment of the views of his predecessors, Nifo in this work presented an analysis of the main issues of Peripatetic noetics, name…

Incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter

by Deacon, Terrence William

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Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.

Incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter

by Deacon, Terrence William

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Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.

Incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter

by Deacon, Terrence William

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As scientists study the minutiae of subatomic particles, neural connections, and molecular compounds, their attempts at a "theory of everything" harbor a glaring omission: they still cannot explain us, the thoughts and perceptions that truly make us what we are. A masterwork tha…

Incomplete nature: how mind emerged from matter

by Deacon, Terrence William

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Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.

Essay on a New Theory of the Human Capacity for Representation

by Reinhold, Karl Leonhard

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Biographical note: Tim Mehigan and Barry Empson, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Cartographies of the mind: philosophy and psychology in intersection

by De Caro, Mario, Marraffa, Massimo, Ferretti, Francesco

fromStudies in Brain and Mind

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The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology. In the last three decades, the level of interaction between…

Minding the modern: human agency, intellectual traditions, and respon…

by Pfau, Thomas

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In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of h…

Mind: a journey to the heart of being human

by Siegel, Daniel J.

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"What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents--its emotions, thoughts, and memories--are often described, the essence of mind is rarely, if ever, defined. In this book, noted neuropsychiat…

Mind: a journey to the heart of being human

by Siegel, Daniel J.

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"What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents--its emotions, thoughts, and memories--are often described, the essence of mind is rarely, if ever, defined. In this book, noted neuropsychiat…

Explanation and integration in mind and brain science

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This collection brings together a set of new papers that advance the debate concerning the nature of explanation in mind and brain science, and help to clarify the prospects for genuine integration across these fields. Long a topic of debate among philosophers and scientists ali…