my mind on books

Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind by Shaun Gallagher (Imprint Academic, 2008). According to Amazon, this book is due out on June 1.
From the publisher:

Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher of mind who has made it his business to study and meet with leading neuroscientists, including Michael Gazzaniga, Marc Jeannerod and Chris Frith.
The result is this unique introduction to the study of the mind, with topics ranging over consciousness, emotion, language, movement, free will and moral responsibility. The discussion throughout is illustrated by lengthy extracts from the author’s many interviews with his scientist colleagues on the relation between the mind and the brain.

Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Central Florida and the University of Hertfordshire.

Shaun Gallagher at Wikipedia

Open Yale Courses has video lectures posted for seven introductory courses, including a philosophy course on Death given by Prof. Shelly Kagan (shown below) and “Introduction to Psychology” with Prof. Paul Bloom.

Two useful resources recently published by Pete Mandik:

Neurosemantics bibliography (a new neuro-term to me, “Neurophilosophy concerning representational content”)

Philosophy of Mind MetaResource – “links to definitions and discussions of key terms”

What is Mental Disorder?: An essay in philosophy, science, and values (International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry) by Derek Bolton (Oxford University Press)
From the book description:

This new book by Derek Bolton tackles the problems involved in the definition and boundaries of mental disorder. It addresses two main questions regarding mental illness. Firstly, what is the basis of the standards or norms by which we judge that a person has a mental disorder – that the person’s mind is not working as it should, that their mental functioning is abnormal? Controversies about these questions have been dominated by the contrast between norms that are medical, scientific or natural, on the one hand, and social norms on the other. The norms that define mental disorder seem to belong to psychiatry, to be medical and scientific, but are they really social norms, hijacked and disguised by the medical profession?

Secondly, what is the validity of the distinction between mental disorder and order, between abnormal and normal mental functioning? To what extent, notwithstanding appearances, does mental disorder involve meaningful reactions and problem-solving? These responses may be to normal problems of living, or to not so normal problems – to severe psycho-social challenges. Is there after all order in mental disorder?

“AskPhilosophers.org” is one of the sites on the Telegraph’s “101 most useful websites,” a database of questions posed by the public with answers posted by a panel of philosophers. There is also a book based on the site; in the US the title is What Would Socrates Say?: Philosophers answer your questions about love, nothingness, and everything else.