my mind on books

The Emotional Construction of Morals by Jesse Prinz (Oxford University Press, Dec. 28, 2007).
From the book description: “Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection.”

author’s website, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

excerpts (24 p pdf draft)

article “The Emotional Basis of Moral Judgments,” Philosophical Explorations, March 2006 (16 p pdf)

ReadMe is a MetaFilter Wiki page collecting (and organizing) all the book-related topics from Ask MetaFilter, usually book recommendations on specific topics.

For example, filed on the wiki under “Science & Math: consciousness” – there are two entries: 1 (“recommend books about consciousness”) and 2 (“what to read after Dennett’s Consciousness Explained?”)

Also “recent books on cognitive science”

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Another good source of book lists is the site Lists of Bests, where I found “Mindpapers: 100 most cited works in the Philosophy of Mind”.

Continuing an occasional ‘mind alphabet’ series….

For a conceptual overview: Free will on WikiMindMap

Selected books on free will:

A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will by Robert Kane (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005).
An Essay on Free Will by Peter Van Inwagen (Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983).
De La Mettrie’s Ghost: The Story of Decisions by Chris Nunn (New York : Macmillan, 2005).
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting by Daniel Clement Dennett (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1984).
Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)by John Martin Fischer (Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007).
Free Will (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy) by Robert Kane (Wiley, 2001). [readings]
Free Will: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Pink (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004).
Free Will and Luck by Alfred R Mele (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006). (more…)

Science Daily has an article on the new book Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World by Dario Maestripien, while as a counterpoint Dissident Voice discusses “neuroscience and moral politics.”

Also David Chalmers announces a new online bibliography on philosophy of mind and the science of consciousness at MindPapers, with over 18000 entries! (And it appears to be very well organized too, though I haven’t had time yet to delve in there much.)

“Online Papers in Philosophy” is a blog that tracks, you know, online papers in philosophy, many with abstracts. The latest update (Oct. 19) includes an entry by Thomas Metzinger on “Self Models” at Scholarpedia, part of Scholarpedia’s Encyclopedia of Cognitive Neuroscience. (Metzinger is author of ‘Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity‘)