The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition6 reviews Michael Tomasello Harvard University Press, 2001 The Essential Ingredient + Tomasello rocks! + Essential + Cutting-edge evolutionary psychology             Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy (New Practices of Inquiry) Charles Arthur Willard University Of Chicago Press, 1996 In this witty and provocative study of democracy and its critics, Charles Willard debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity, and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of "the rule of experts." He proposes a ground of communication that emphasizes common interests rather than narrow disputes. The problem of "unity" and the public ...             Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) Peter Godfrey-Smith Cambridge University Press, 1998 This book is a further contribution to the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. It is an ambitious attempt to explain the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing to link philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of "externalist" explanations. This is a highly ...             Encountering the World: Toward an Ecological Psychology1 review Edward S. Reed Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 creative thinker and excellent writer I learned a great deal from this book-from beginning to end. Reed is not only a thinker of great scope but also of consistency. It's a little hard to tell that Reed is a philosopher and not just a psychologist, given how little philosophy he cites and how few purely conceptual arguments he ...             Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory (Bradford Books)2 reviews W. Teed Rockwell The MIT Press, 2005 Pushing the envelope clearly + a good read Concise, clear tour of the field of mind, brain, language studies - pushing the envelope back to Dewey and then ahead with the dynamic systems theorists & connectionists. Exemplary. He is at the forefront of philosophers working to understand the continuities of mind and environment.             Feminist Epistemologies (Thinking Gender)1 review Routledge, 1992 this is an excellent book, worthy of reading and re-reading. Feminist Epistemologies is a collection of a number of essays, by different authors with varying backgrounds. Dealing with the braod subject of feminism, Feminist Epistemologies touches on the key concepts that constitute the area of study. Raising seemingly contraversial points, and asserting ...             Embodiment and Cognitive Science2 reviews Jr, Raymond W. Gibbs Cambridge University Press, 2005 Embodiment Established + Technically oriented This book definitively establishes the fact that not only is the mind "in" the body, the mind is the body. We think with our whole nervous system. Proprioception, peripheral nerves, bodily motions, all are major parts of cognition and experience. Not only do we think with our bodies, we can't ...             Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems)2 reviews J. A. Scott Kelso The MIT Press, 1995 foundation Material + science book What language would It use to describe itself? Can something like mathematics, music, language or art, which It created contain the essence to even describe itself? Do modern models describe It any better than earlier models? In the context of the times does Non-linear Dynamics attractors ...             Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought37 reviews George Lakoff, Mark Johnson Basic Books, 1999 Linguistic and Philosophy together. + Great attempt in trying to tackle a monumental task This is a scholarly work with all the bases covered. What Western Philosophy is from Descartes to Kant to modern philosophy and how this changes things. The linguistics and philosophy are both presented in very accessible language so that no background in either is a prerequisite. It is a ...             Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition3 reviews Kim Sterelny Wiley-Blackwell, 2003 incredible book! + meaningful progress in biological understanding... + Investigation of philo of mind has never been so thrilling I was just checking out this site and saw that no one had written a review. I don't have time to write a full review, but let me just say: this book is incredible! Sterelny lays out the nature and history of human cognitive faculties in an easy-to-read, thorough, and well-argued way. I found the ...             A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination18 reviews Gerald Edelman, Giulio Tononi Basic Books, 2001 The BEST Book on Consciousness -- By Far + A Commendable Attempt at our Most Miraculous Question + Imagine a complex subject ... This is a most exciting and most challenging read on consciousness. Finally, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry return as the hallmarks of the theory, bolstered by a high amount of "Neural Darwinism," in order, "to formulate a specific hypothesis about the kinds of neural processes ...             Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again4 reviews Andy Clark The MIT Press, 1998 probably the most readable and reasonable book on mind-body + Great reading on the Mind-Body problem + A New Approach to Philosophy of Mind + A new conceptual framework in the offing             Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)2 reviews Edwin Hutchins The MIT Press, 1996 Mindblowing! + A fresh and valuable approach In early 1997, this book helped change the course of my career. I study software engineering processes, especially software quality assurance techniques. I'd been troubled by the linear, cartesian reasoning we use in our field to justify some practices and deprecate others. What Hutchins did for ...             Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) Peter Godfrey-Smith Cambridge University Press, 1998 This book is a further contribution to the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. It is an ambitious attempt to explain the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing to link philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of "externalist" explanations. This is a highly ...             Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)2 reviews Edwin Hutchins The MIT Press, 1996 Mindblowing! + A fresh and valuable approach In early 1997, this book helped change the course of my career. I study software engineering processes, especially software quality assurance techniques. I'd been troubled by the linear, cartesian reasoning we use in our field to justify some practices and deprecate others. What Hutchins did for ...             Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again4 reviews Andy Clark The MIT Press, 1998 probably the most readable and reasonable book on mind-body + Great reading on the Mind-Body problem + A New Approach to Philosophy of Mind + A new conceptual framework in the offing             Embodiment and Cognitive Science2 reviews Jr, Raymond W. Gibbs Cambridge University Press, 2005 Embodiment Established + Technically oriented This book definitively establishes the fact that not only is the mind "in" the body, the mind is the body. We think with our whole nervous system. Proprioception, peripheral nerves, bodily motions, all are major parts of cognition and experience. Not only do we think with our bodies, we can't ...             Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy (New Practices of Inquiry) Charles Arthur Willard University Of Chicago Press, 1996 In this witty and provocative study of democracy and its critics, Charles Willard debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity, and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of "the rule of experts." He proposes a ground of communication that emphasizes common interests rather than narrow disputes. The problem of "unity" and the public ...             Feminist Epistemologies (Thinking Gender)1 review Routledge, 1992 this is an excellent book, worthy of reading and re-reading. Feminist Epistemologies is a collection of a number of essays, by different authors with varying backgrounds. Dealing with the braod subject of feminism, Feminist Epistemologies touches on the key concepts that constitute the area of study. Raising seemingly contraversial points, and asserting ...             Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought37 reviews George Lakoff, Mark Johnson Basic Books, 1999 Linguistic and Philosophy together. + Great attempt in trying to tackle a monumental task This is a scholarly work with all the bases covered. What Western Philosophy is from Descartes to Kant to modern philosophy and how this changes things. The linguistics and philosophy are both presented in very accessible language so that no background in either is a prerequisite. It is a ...