The Illusion of Conscious Will

10 best books like The Illusion of Conscious Will (Daniel M. Wegner): The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, Free Will, Consciousness Explained, Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human, The Principles of Psychology, Vol 1

The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Author

Sonja Lyubomirsky

You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how

Drawing on her own groundbreaking research with thousands of men and women, research psychologist and University of California professor...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Author	Steven Pinker
ISBN	0142003344

“In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinker banishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values.”
—Helena Cronin, author of The Ant and The Peacock

“A mind blowing, mind openingexpos. Pinker's profoundly...

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

Author	Michael Shermer
ISBN	0805091254

The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished.

In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Author	Jonathan Haidt
ISBN	0307377903

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Author	Shunryu Suzuki
ISBN	0834800799

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Author	Rick Hanson
ISBN	1572246952

Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.

With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of...

Free Will

Author	Sam Harris
ISBN	1451683405

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source...

Consciousness Explained

Author	Daniel C. Dennett
ISBN	0316180661

"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,...

Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human

Author	Susan Blackmore
ISBN	0195179595

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 Principles of Psychology, Vol 1

Author	William James
ISBN	0486203816

This is the first inexpensive edition of the complete Long Course in Principles of Psychology, one of the great classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America’s most important philosopher. As such, it should not be confused with the many abridgements...