Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind by Evan Thompson

Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind



Download Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind




Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind Evan Thompson ebook
Language: English
Page: 554
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0674025113, 9780674025110
Publisher:

Review

I think this book deserves close study, since it offers a holistic and dynamic perspective on how life and mind interact and how mind, body, and world form an inseparable unity...Thompson has written a book that for philosophers may give a new incentive to rethink and reconceptualize our place in the world that surpasses dualistic thinking. If that was the purpose of the book, it has succeeded. (Taede A. Smedes Metapsychology )

The aim of Evan Thompson's Mind in Life is to suggest a new way forward in the long-running attempt to connect biological knowledge about how body and brain work with our phenomenological experience of life. The book is an impressive work of synthesis, drawing together an array of themes in biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, phenomenology, and consciousness studies...This is a highly impressive work, of considerable scope, importance, and originality. The book is not, nor does it claim to be, an easy read for a general audience: the fields of consciousness studies and phenomenology are replete with necessary jargon, and Mind in Life builds on decades of discovery and debate. On the other hand, the argument is accessible to nonspecialists willing to take the time, for Thompson presents complex ideas with commendable fluency. For philosophers of biology, as for cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind, Mind in Life is sure to become essential reading. (John C. Waller Isis )

The book is a tremendous success and amounts to a superior contribution to recent and current debates in the philosophy of mind. Thompson displays a deeply impressive grasp of the relevant literature across a range of disciplines, including biology, phenomenology, psychology and neuroscience. Not only has he read widely, he has an admirable intellectual independence, and is confident of the arguments he wants to demonstrate and the direction he wants the sciences of the mind to take...One of the richest contributions to the study of "mind in life" in recent years. It deserves to become a major work of reference and inspiration for research in the immediate future and, indeed, for many years to come. It provides a genuine and far-reaching clarification of core issues in the philosophy and science of the mind, and is to be greatly welcomed. (Keith Ansell-Pearson Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences )

Review

The overarching topic of Thompson's book is nothing less than the nature of life and mind, where life and mind are conceived not as they often are--that is, as fundamentally separate subjects in need of largely nonintersecting theoretical frameworks--but rather as tightly intertwined phenomena in need of a common explanatory language. The long-anticipated follow-up to The Embodied Mind, this book is even better--clear, lively, original, and compelling. Mind in Life is a work for which a great number of thinkers in philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences have been eagerly waiting. (Michael Wheeler, author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step 20081201)

MORE EBOOKS:
Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 7 book download







Tags: Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind ebook pdf epub djvu mobi rar
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind pdf epub djvu free download
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind free ebook pdf epub
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind read online free book
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind cheap ebook for kindle and nook
Evan Thompson ebooks and audio books
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind download pdf epub rar rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent depositfiles scribd