my mind on books

One I missed earlier: Why Think? The Evolution of the Rational Mind by Ronald de Sousa (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)

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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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

“As we invent new principles of organization that make sense in a world of knowledge freed from physical constraints, information doesn’t just want to be free. It wants to be miscellaneous.” (p. 7)

Knowledge was supposed to be a mirror of reality. It thus was either true or not true, end of story. But if knowledge includes metadata about how much and why we should believe it… Knowledge can’t be a literal read-off of the real because we’re too deeply involved in the world we’re trying to know…. Our knowledge of the world is an understanding that simultaneously assesses the quality and reliability of our understanding. (p. 218-219)

In the world after the Enlightenment, the cultural task was to build knowledge. In the miscellaneous world, the task is to build meaning… Knowledge’s new place will be in an ever-present mesh of social meaning…. But knowledge is now not our only project or our single highest calling. Making sense of what we know is the broader task, a task for understanding within the infrastructure of meaning. (p. 222)

website for the book

useful summary by Mark Bower

Google Tech Talk video

Online texts on self/person/personal identity
Unfortunately, some of the links are broken, but this is still a rich resource.

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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…)