my mind on books

I came across ‘Garcia’s Heart’ while browsing & thought of a few other examples of “neurofiction,” so here is the start of a list. I’m sure there are many more…

• Garcia’s Heart: A Novel by Liam Durcan (neurologist at a war crimes trial)
• The Echo Maker: A Novel by Richard Powers (Capgras syndrome)
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall (“conceptual shark” attack)
• Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness (Bradford Books) by Dan Lloyd (consciousness theory plus murder mystery)
• Memories of Amnesia by Lawrence Shainberg (brain damage, brain surgery)

12/5/07 – Another to add to the list: Saturday by Ian McEwan (recommended in Proust Was a Neuroscientist)

These are books published in 2007 or forthcoming, mostly limited to scientific or philosophical approaches. This is the third & final part (for now) that will become a cumulative list posted in the sidebar.

Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness: An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis by Thomas Carlyle Dalton; Victor W Bergenn (Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007)

The Experimental Phenomena of Consciousness: A Brief Dictionary by T Bakhman; Bruno G Breitmeyer; Haluk Ogmen (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)

Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness (Columbia Series in Science and Religion) by B. Alan Wallace (New York : Columbia University Press, 2007) forthcoming Aug 10

Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective by Graham A Jamieson (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter (New York : Basic Books, 2007)

The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor (Consciousness & Emotion Book Series) by Wallace L Chafe (Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007)

Introduction to Consciousness by Arne Dietrich (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) forthcoming June 26, textbook

Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure (Jean Nicod Lectures) by Ray Jackendoff (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007) forthcoming Nov. 30

Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person ed. by Mitchell S Green; John N Williams (Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)

Neurophilosophy at Work by Paul M Churchland (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language by Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, and John Searle (New York : Columbia University Press, 2007)

Ontology of Consciousness: Percipient Action (Bradford Books) ed. Helmut Wautischer (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007) forthcoming Aug 31

Rediscovering Phenomenology: Phenomenological Essays on Mathematical Beings, Physical Reality, Perception and Consciousness (Phaenomenologica) ed. by L Boi; Pierre Kerszberg; Frédéric Patras (Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2007) forthcoming Aug.

Self-Consciousness by Sebastian Rödl (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007)

Transcendental Phenomenological Psychology by Jon L James (Victoria, B.C. : Trafford, 2007)

-end of list-

These are books published in 2007 or forthcoming, mostly limited to scientific or philosophical approaches. This is the second part that will become a cumulative list to be posted in the sidebar.

Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind: A Defense of Content-internalism and Semantic Externalism (Advances in Consciousness Research) by John-Michael Kuczynski (Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007) forthcoming – expected July 2007, according to the publisher

Consciousness and Cognition: Fragments of Mind and Brain ed. by Henri Cohen, Brigitte Stemmer (London : Academic Press, 2007)

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy) ed. by Brian P McLaughlin, Jonathan Cohen (Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007) forthcoming July 1

Damasio’s Error and Descartes’ Truth: An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics, and Epistemology by Andrew Gluck (Scranton : University of Scranton Press, 2007)

Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences) by Joan McCarthy (Amherst, NY : Humanity Books, 2007) forthcoming July 3

Describing Inner Experience?: Proponent Meets Skeptic (Bradford Books) by Russell T Hurlburt; Eric Schwitzgebel (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007) forthcoming 11/30/07

Discreteness, Continuity, & Consciousness: An Epistemological Unified Field Theory by Alan M. Laibelman (New York : Peter Lang, 2007)

The Drama of Possibility: Experience As Philosophy of Culture (American Philosophy) by John J McDermott; Douglas R Anderson (New York : Fordham University Press, 2007) forthcoming June 07

These are books published in 2007 or forthcoming, mostly limited to scientific or philosophical approaches. This is the beginning of a cumulative list to be posted in the sidebar.

Are You a Machine?: The Brain, the Mind, And What It Means to Be Human by Eliezer J Sternberg (Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2007)

Arguing About the Mind (Arguing About Philosophy) ed. by Brie Gertler; Lawrence A Shapiro (New York ; London : Routledge, 2007)

Artificial Consciousness ed. by Antonio Chella; Riccardo Manzotti (Exeter : Imprint Academic, 2007)

Becoming Human: The Development of Language, Self and Self-Consciousness by John V. Canfield (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.) forthcoming in October

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness ed. by Max Velmans; Susan Schneider (Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007)

Blue Sky Thoughts: Colour, Consciousness and Reality by Jamie Carnie (London ; New York : Marion Boyars, 2007)

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness ed. by Philip David Zelazo; Morris Moscovitch; Evan Thompson (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience by Bernard J Baars; Nicole M Gage (Oxford : Academic, 2007) textbook

Consciousness, Function, and Representation: Collected Papers, Volume 1 (Bradford Books) by Ned Joel Block (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007)

The Concepts of Consciousness: Integrating an Emerging Science ed. by J Scott Jordan; Dawn M McBride (Exeter : Imprint Academic, 2007)

Link to Science & Consciousness Review post on new book – ‘The Experimental Phenomena of Consciousness: A Brief Dictionary’

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