my mind on books

Here are books on evolutionary psychology published in 2007 or coming soon, the beginning of a cumulative list to be placed in the sidebar:

The Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain by Jonathan Burns (London ; New York : Routledge, 2007).
Educating the Evolved Mind: Conceptual Foundations for an Evolutionary Educational Psychology (PB) (Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Issues) ed. by Jerry S Carlson; Joel R Levin (Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2007)
Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered ed. by Bruce H Weber; David J Depew (Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2007)
The Evolution of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition (Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology) ed. by Joseph P Forgas; Martie Gail Haselton; William von Hippel (New York : Psychology Press, 2007).
The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies ed. by Steven W Gangestad; Jeffry A Simpson (New York : Guilford Press, 2007).
Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Foundations and Frontiers of Aesthetics), ed. by Colin Martindale; Paul Locher; V M Petrov (Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., 2007)
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Here are some cognitive science titles published in 2007 or coming soon, the beginning of a cumulative list that will be placed in the sidebar:

Advances in Clinical Cognitive Science: Formal Modeling of Processes and Symptoms ed. by Richard W J Neufeld (Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2007)
Applying Cognitive Science to Education: Thinking and Learning in Scientific or Other Domains (Bradford Books) by F. Reif (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007) forthcoming Jan. 08
Artificial Cognition Systems ed. by Angelo Loula; Ricardo Gudwin; João Queiroz (Hershey, PA : Idea Group Pub., 2007)
Artificial General Intelligence (Cognitive Technologies) ed. by Ben Goertzel; Cassio Pennachin (Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2007)
Bounds of Cognition by Frederick Adams; Kenneth Aizawa (Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007) forthcoming Oct-Nov 07 (link to book information from publisher)
Categories in Use (Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 47) ed. by Arthur B Markman; Brian H Ross (Amsterdam ; London: Elsevier, 2007)
Cognitive Economics: New Trends, Richard Topol; Bernard Walliser, eds.( Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007)
The Continuity of Mind (Oxford Psychology Series) by Michael Spivey (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)
Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience ed. by Steven M Platek; Julian Paul Keenan; Todd K Shackelford (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007)
Handbook of Applied Cognition ed. by Francis Thomas Durso; Raymond S Nickerson (Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2007)
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books) by Rolf Pfeifer; Josh Bongard (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007) (more…)

Monsters and Critics has posted a review of Steven Pinker’s forthcoming book ‘The Stuff of Thought.‘ which is due out in Sept 07.

Also Grumpy Old Bookman is discussing Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ‘The Black Swan.’

The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson is coming soon from the University of Chicago Press, with a scheduled release date of July 15 (according to Amazon.com). Johnson is co-author with George Lakoff of Metaphors We Live By and Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. Johnson is also the author of The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason.

For more on “embodied cognition”: (1)Embodied cognition: a field guide by Michael L. Anderson (2003, pdf) , (2) article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Also Evan Thompson, who was a co-author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, has recently published Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind.

Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love is a new “nonfiction graphic novel” by Jim Ottaviani and Dylan Marconis that relates the story of Harlow’s famous psychology experiments. The scheduled publication date is July 2 (tomorrow) so it may be available by the time you are reading this.

The publisher’s website has a page with links to reviews & interviews.

This Wikipedia article gives more information on Harry Harlow.

(If this genre gets more popular maybe a non-oxymoronic term will replace “nonfiction graphic novel”!)