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Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

10 best books like Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Paul M. Churchland): How the Mind Works, Consciousness Explained, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human, The Concept of Mind, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, The View from Nowhere, Naming and Necessity, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

How the Mind Works
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0393318486
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...
Consciousness Explained
AuthorDaniel C. Dennett
ISBN0316180661
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review

Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional,...
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
AuthorHumberto R. Maturana
ISBN0877736421
"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as...
Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
AuthorSusan Blackmore
ISBN0195179595
In Conversations on Consciousness, Susan Blackmore interviews some of the great minds of our time, a who's who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding the concept of consciousness.

The interviewees, ranging from major philosophers to renowned...
The Concept of Mind
AuthorGilbert Ryle
ISBN0226732967
This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problems as dissolving them into the...
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
AuthorDavid J. Chalmers
ISBN0195117891
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have...
The View from Nowhere
AuthorThomas Nagel
ISBN0195056442
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular." At the same time, each of us is a particular person...
Naming and Necessity
AuthorSaul A. Kripke
ISBN0674598466
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.

Ever since the publication of its original version, "Naming and Necessity" has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural...
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
AuthorPascal Boyer
ISBN0465006965
Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Religion...
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
AuthorMarc Hauser
ISBN0060780703
Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Experience tunes up our moral...
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