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  1. (1 other version)An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture.Ernst Cassirer - 1944 - New Haven: Yale University Press.
    One of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man’s cultural achievements An Essay on Man is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a unique interpretation of the intellectual crisis of our time, and a brilliant vindication of man’s ability to resolve human problems by the courageous use of his mind. In a new introduction Peter E. Gordon situates the book among Cassirer’s greater body of work, and looks at why his “hymn to humanity (...)
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  • The Origins and History of Consciousness.Erich Neumann - 1954 - [Princeton, N.J.]: Routledge.
    First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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  • Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind & its Challenge to Western Thought.George Lakoff (ed.) - 1999 - Basic Books.
    Reexamines the Western philosophical tradition, looking at the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self.
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  • Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.Antonio R. Damasio - 2003 - William Heinemann.
    Damasio, an eminent neuroscientist explores the science of human emotion and what the great Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza can teach of how and why we feel. Damasio shows how joy and sorrow, those most defining of human feelings, are in fact the cornerstones of our survival and culture.
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  • (1 other version)Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism.Niles Eldredge & Stephen Jay Gould - 1972 - In Thomas J. M. Schopf (ed.), Models in Paleobiology. Freeman, Cooper. pp. 82-115.
    They are correct that punctuated equilibria apply to sexually reproducing organisms and that morphological evolutionary change is regarded as largely (if not exclusively) correlated with speciation events. However, they err in suggesting that we attribute stasis strictly to "developmental constraints," which represent only one of a set of possible mechanisms that we have suggested for the causes of stasis. Others include habitat tracking and the internal structure of species themselves [for example, (2)].
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  • The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language.Steven Pinker - 1994/2007 - Harper Perennial.
    In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from (...)
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  • (1 other version)Imaginative horizons: an essay in literary-philosophical anthropology.Vincent Crapanzano - 2004 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and (...)
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  • Originary thinking: elements of generative anthropology.Eric Lawrence Gans - 1993 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    Originary Thinking deals with generative anthropology, a radically new conception of human science founded on the hypothesis that humanity emerged in a communal event in which intraspecific violence was deferred by the production of a linguistic sign. The author pursues in the areas of religion, ethics, philosophy of language, theory of discourse, and aesthetics, the exploration begun in his The Origin of Language (1981) and continued in The End of Culture (1985) and Science and Faith (1990). The present volume adds (...)
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  • The myth of the state.Ernst Cassirer - 1946 - Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. Edited by Charles William Hendel.
    A great contemporary German philosopher attacks the explosive problem of political myth in our day, and reveals how the myth of the state evolved from primitive times to prepare the way for the rise of the modern totalitarian state. "A brilliant survey of some of the major texts in the history of political theory."—Kenneth Burke, _The Nation._.
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  • Reflections On Language.Noam Chomsky - 1975 - Temple Smith.
    Presents observations on and analyses of the purposes, methods, and implications of linguistic studies, the concerns and findings of recent work, and current problems and controversies.
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  • Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee’s Theory of How the World Works.Daniel J. Povinelli - 2000 - Oxford University Press.
    From an early age, humans know a surprising amount about basic physical principles, such as gravity, force, mass, and shape. We can see this in the way that young children play, and manipulate objects around them. The same behaviour has long been observed in primates - chimpanzees have been shown to possess a remarkable ability to make and use simple tools. But what does this tell us about their inner mental state - do they therefore share the same understanding to (...)
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  • The practice of mind: Theory, simulation or primary interaction?Shaun Gallagher - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (5-7):83-108.
    Theory of mind explanations of how we know other minds are limited in several ways. First, they construe intersubjective relations too narrowly in terms of the specialized cognitive abilities of explaining and predicting another person's mental states and behaviors. Second, they sometimes draw conclusions about secondperson interaction from experiments designed to test third-person observation of another's behavior. As a result, the larger claims that are sometimes made for theory of mind, namely, that theory of mind is our primary and pervasive (...)
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  • The Singer of Tales.J. A. Davison & Albert Bates Lord - 1961 - American Journal of Philology 82 (4):441.
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  • The Myth of the State.George H. Sabine - 1947 - Philosophical Review 56 (3):315.
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  • (1 other version)The Greeks and the Irrational.E. R. Dodds - 1951 - Philosophy 28 (105):176-177.
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  • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World.David Abram (ed.) - 1996 - Pantheon.
    Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This is a major work of ecological philosophy that startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception.
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  • The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion.Mircea Eliade - 1969 - University of Chicago Press.
    " "Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to ...
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  • The rediscovery of meaning: and other essays.Owen Barfield - 2006 - San Rafael, Calif.: Barfield Press.
    The rediscovery of meaning -- Dream, myth, and philosophical double vision -- The meaning of 'literal' -- Poetic diction and legal fiction -- The harp and the camera -- Where is fancy bred? -- The rediscovery of allegory (I) -- The rediscovery of allegory (II) -- Imagination and inspiration -- Language and discovery -- Matter, imagination, and spirit -- Self and reality -- Science and quality -- The coming trauma of materialism -- Participation and isolation: a fresh light on present (...)
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  • Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind.Gerald M. Edelman - 1992 - Penguin Books.
    The author takes the reader on a tour that covers such topics as computers, evolution, Descartes, Schrodinger, and the nature of perception, language, and invididuality. He argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brain. Underlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in history. This book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosophy, and more. Frequently contentious, Edelman attacks cognitive and behavioral approaches, which leave biology out of the picture, as (...)
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  • An Essay on Man. An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture. [REVIEW]Helmut Kuhn - 1945 - Journal of Philosophy 42 (18):497-504.
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  • The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science.H. R. Smart & Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1926 - Philosophical Review 35 (6):589.
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  • Size, power, death constituents in the making of human morality.M. Sheets-Johnstone - 2002 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 (2):49-67.
    Any explanation of the origin and nature of human morality must take into account a powerful and inescapable pan-cultural human awareness. Death is the great pan-cultural human leveller and human awareness of death is a near life-long awareness. However metaphysically or religiously conceived, however long postponed by medical science, however softened by belief or by faith, the basic human fact and fear of death cannot be denied. Neither, in opposition, can the basic human craving for more life.
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  • The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals.David Ray Griffin (ed.) - 1988 - State University of New York Press.
    Describes the move from modern, mechanistic science to a post-modern, organismic science.
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  • Evolution and Consciousness: The Role of Speech in the Origin and Development of Human Nature.Leslie Dewart - 1989 - University of Toronto Press.
    A textbook for third year undergraduates and postgraduates. In a challenging philosophic investigation of the origin of consciousness and human culture, Dewart (religion, emeritus, U. of Toronto) proposes a theory to explain the origin of all specifically human traits. Complementing the theory of evolution through natural selection, it explains the emergence and those the continuing evolution of characterstics through the interaction of experience and speech. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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  • The End of Education.Robert Dinozzi, Neil Postman, Jean Kilbourne & Into the Classroom Video - 1996 - Into the Classroom Video.
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  • On Aggression.Konrad Lorenz - 2002 - Routledge.
    Hugely controversial on publication, this is an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behaviour and the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world.
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  • Shamanism.M. Eliade - 1964
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  • (1 other version)Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology.Vincent Crapanzano - 2003 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and (...)
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  • A sense of the cosmos: the encounter of modern science and ancient truth.Jacob Needleman - 1975 - New York: Arkana.
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  • Reconceptualising the Sciences and the Humanities: An Integral Approach.Subhash Chandra Malik - 1995
    An Anthropologist Looks At Recent Developments In The Sciences And The Humanities Taking Into Account Many Disciplines. He Suggests Alternate Paradigms To The Consumeristic Paradigm Which Governs Humankind To-Day. The Themes Addressed Are: Civilisation Studies And Knowledge-A Creative Act; Man In Nature - An Integral Universe; A Question Of Consciousness; Science And Consciousness; Violence And Non-Violence - A Binary System; And Integral Listening As Communication.
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  • (1 other version)State consciousness and transitive consciousness.David M. Rosenthal - 1994 - Consciousness and Cognition 2 (3):355-63.
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  • The Message in the Bottle.Walker Percy - 1959 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 34 (3):405-433.
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  • (1 other version)The metaphysical foundations of modern physical science.Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - Garden City, N.Y.,: Doubleday. Edited by Burtt, Edwin & A..
    CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION (A) Historical Problem Suggested by the Nature of Modern Thought How curious, after all, is the way in which we moderns think about ...
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  • Chimpanzees: Self-recognition.G. Gallup - 1970 - Science 167:86-87.
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  • Language and Human Behavior.Derek Bickerton - 1995 - Seattle: University Washington Press.
    According to Bickerton, the behavioral sciences have failed to give an adequate account of human nature at least partly because of the conjunction and mutual reinforcement of two widespread beliefs: that language is simply a means of communication and that human intelligence is the result of the rapid growth and unusual size of human brains. Bickerton argues that each of the properties distinguishing human intelligence and consciousness from that of other animals can be shown to derive straightforwardly from properties of (...)
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  • The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion.Mircea Eliade, Joseph Kitagawa, Charles H. Long, Jerald C. Brauer & Marshall G. S. Hodson - 1969 - Religious Studies 7 (1):77-79.
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  • Evidence for symbolic language processing in a bonobo (Pan paniscus).James Benson, William Greaves, Michael ODonnell & Jared Taglialatela - 2002 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 (12):33-56.
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  • Myth and Mind.Harvey Birenbaum - 1987 - Upa.
    Presents a study of mythology based on the analysis of nonlinear form, the self's confrontation with its world, and the nature of mythic truth. Drawing on texts world-wide and on many theorists, including Cassirer, Eliade, Jung, Levi-Strauss, and Buber, the book develops a complex view of the relation between consciousness and culture.
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  • Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language.Maurice Merleau-Ponty - 1973 - Northwestern University Press.
    The lecture notes taken down by students were periodically gathered together and submitted to Merleau-Ponty for his approval.
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  • On Aggression.Konrad Lorenz, Robert Ardrey, Desmond Morris & Lionel Tiger - 1971 - Science and Society 35 (2):209-219.
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  • (1 other version)State Consciousness and Transitive Consciousness.David M. Rosenthal - 1993 - Consciousness and Cognition 2 (4):355-363.
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  • On cognitive capacity.Noam A. Chomsky - 1975 - In Noam Chomsky (ed.), Reflections On Language. Temple Smith.
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  • Self-awareness.G. G. Gallup - 1987 - In G. Mitchell (ed.), Comparative Primate Biology, Volume 2. Liss.
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