my mind on books

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)

BAMM! 2007 – A daylong meeting for SF Bay Area researchers on memory and cognitive control – is being planned for Saturday August 25, 2007; registration is only $25. The final schedule is not yet available. Link for more information.

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Author David Linden has a rich website and blog for his recent book on brain evolution, ‘The Accidental Mind.’ You can even print out notecards based on illustrations from the book!

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From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner is my June pick for the Non-Fiction Five Challenge. (I’m about a third of the way….)

A google video search turns up a nice series of videos by the author talking about the book.

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Daniel B. Smith, author of ‘Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination’ is scheduled to appear on the Colbert Report tonight (Comedy Central, 11:30p/10:30c).