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Here are some of the recent books in philosophy of mind and some coming next year, based on a search of WorldCat.

The Achilles of rationalist psychology by Thomas M Lennon; Robert Stainton; (Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2008).

Being reduced : new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation ed. by Jakob Hohwy; Jesper Kallestrup; (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Brainstorming Views and Interviews on the Mind.  by Shaun Gallagher (Imprint Academic, 2008).

The case for qualia ed. by Edmond Leo Wright; (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008).

Descartes and the passionate mind by Deborah J Brown (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

The epicurean theory of mind, meaning, and knowledge by David Swift (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008).

Folk psychological narratives : the sociocultural basis of understanding reasons by Daniel D Hutto (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008).

The Innate Mind: Foundations and the Future, Volume 3 ed. by Peter Carruthers; Stephen Laurence; Stephen P Stich; (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

The Kingdom of Infinite Space: An Encounter with Your Head by Raymond Tallis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).

The mechanical mind in history ed. by Philip Husbands; Owen Holland; Michael Wheeler (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008).

Mental causation: a nonreductive approach by Neil Campbell (New York: Peter Lang, 2008).

Mental causation : the mind-body problem by Anthony Dardis (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).

Mind and common sense: philosophical essays on commonsense psychology ed. by Radu J Bogdan; (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

The mind in nature by C.B. Martin (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

On the philosophy of mind by Barbara Montero (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2008)

The subject’s point of view by Katalin Farkas (Oxford: New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Supersizing the mind : embodiment, action, and cognitive extension by Andy Clark (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Symbolic worlds: art, science, language, ritual by Israel Scheffler (Cambridge, [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Symbols and embodiment: debates on meaning and cognition ed. by Manuel de Vega; Arthur M Glenberg; Arthur C Graesser; (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Theory of mind: how children understand others’ thoughts and feelings by Martin J Doherty (Hove; New York: Psychology Press, 2008).

Tropes, universals and the philosophy of mind : essays at the boundary of ontology and philosophical psychology ed. by Simone Gozzano; Francesco Orilia; (Frankfurt [Germany]: Ontos Verlag; Piscataway, NJ: [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, Rutgers University, 2008).

What should we do with our brain? by Catherine Malabou (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008).

The wisdom of donkeys: finding tranquility in a chaotic world by Andy Merrifield (New York: Walker: Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008).

2009

Against theory of mind ed. by Ivan Leudar; Alan Costall; (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). (May 2009)

Anti-externalism by Joseph Mendola (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). (Jan 2009)

Descartes’s changing mind by Peter K Machamer; J E McGuire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). (July 2009)

Embodied minds in action Robert Hanna; Michelle Maiese (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). (March 2009)

Emotions and understanding: Wittgensteinian perspectives ed. by Ylva Gustafsson; Camilla Kronqvist; Michael McEachrane; (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). (April 2009)

Mind’s world : imagination and subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism by Alexander M Schlutz (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2009). (Feb 2009)

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind ed. by Brian P McLaughlin; Ansgar Beckermann; Sven Walter; (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). (March 2009)

The philosophy of mind: the metaphysics of consciousness by Dale Jacquette (London; New York: Continuum, 2009). (June 2009)

Understanding people : normativity and rationalizing explanation by Alan Millar (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009). (Jan. 2009)

The Origin of Consciousness in the Social World (which should be added to the list of books on consciousness), ed. by Charles Whitehead (Imprint Academic, 2008). Amazon has “Search Inside the Book” for this title, so the Table of Contents and an excerpt are available, though the book is still a preorder in the US. (It is in stock at Amazon UK.)

Publisher’s description:

Western individualism has delayed scientific recognition of the essentially social nature of consciousness – or at least of the human mind and brain. Milestone publications (in ethology, primatology and cognitive science), dealing with theory of mind, Machiavellian intelligence, the social brain and mirror neurones, demonstrate that the origin of consciousness needs to be understood in a social context. This is reinforced by classic theorists in social psychology and cultural and social anthropology, like Dilthey, Baldwin, Cooley, Mead and Goffman.

The contributors to this volume, including Chris Frith, Robert Turner, Nalini Ambady, Corrado Sinigaglia, Chris Knight, Colwyn Trevarthen, Vasudevi Reddy, Maya Gratier, Michael Apter, Joan Chiao and Andreas Roepstorff , introduce some of these anthropological themes into consciousness studies.