SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CONTEMPORARY MIND-BRAIN DEBATE:

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For lists or tables of classic positions, see Eccles (1984) p. 211, and Bindra (1980), p. 4.

 

Campbell, Keith, Body and Mind.  Macmillan, London, 1970: the debate up until about 1970.

 

Balazs Gulyas, editor. The Brain-Mind Problem.  Leuven Univ.  Press, Leuven, 1987.

 

Parkinson, G. H. R., editor.  An Encvclopaedia of Philosophy.  Routledge, London, 1988.  Ch. 17 on non-reductlonist theories and 18 on some forms of reductionism.

 

Roger Sperry.  "Mind-Brain Interaction: Mentalism, Yes; Dualism, No. 11 Neuroscience, Vol. 5, 1980, pp. i95-206.

 

John Eccles.  Evolution of the Brian: Creation of the Self.

Routledge, London, 1989.

 

John Eccles.  The Human Mystery.  Routledge and Kegan Paul,

London, 1984.  See table p. 211.

 

Karl Popper.  Conjectures and Refutations.  Routledge and Kegan Paul., London.  Fifth Edition, 1974.  Chs. 12 and 13.

 

Norman Malcolm.  Problems of Mind.  Descartes to Wittgenstein.  Allen and Unwin-, London, 1971.

 

Cynthia Macdonald.  Mind-Body Identity Theories. Routledge, London, 1989.

 

John Searle.  Minds, Brains and Science.  Harvard Univ.  Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1984.

 

John   Searle.  The Rediscovery of the Mind.  M. I.T., Cambridge, Mass., 1992.

 

John Searle.  Intentionality.  C.U.P., 1983, Ch. 10.

 

Bindra, Dalbir, et al.  The Brain's Mind.  Gardner Press, N.Y., 1980.  Esp. article by Bunge.  See table p. 4.

 

Armstrong, D.M. The Nature of Mind and Other Essays.  Univ. of Qld Press, St Lucia, 1980.

 

Armstrong, D.M., and Norman Malcolm.  Consciousness and Causality.  Blackwell, Oxford, 1984.

 

Shoemaker, Sydney and Richard Swinburne.  Personal Identity.  Blackwell, Oxford, 1984.

 

Dilman, Ilham.  Mind, Brain and Behaviour-.  Discussions of B.F. Skinner and J.R. Searle.  Routledge, London, 1980.

 

Peacocke, Arthur, and Grant Gillet, editors.  Persons and Personality.  Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.  See esp. articles by  Swinburne and Gillet.

 

Richard Bergland.  The Fabric of Mind.  Penguin Books, Australia, Ringwood, Vic., 1985.

 

D. Gareth Jones.  Our Fragile Brains.  A Christian Perspective on Brain Research.   Inter-Varsity Press, Illinois, 1981.

 

Arthur Koestler.  The Ghost In the Machine.  Pan Books, London, 1967.

 

John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin.  Mind in Nature.  Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy.  Univ.  Press of America, Washington D.C., 1977.

 

David Ray Griffin, editor.  The Reenchantment of Science.  State University of New York Press, Albany, 1988.  Esp.  Ch. 10

 

David Ray Griffin.  God and Religion In the Postmodern World. S.U.N.Y. Press, Albany, 1989.  Esp.  Ch. 6.

 

Richard Q. Elvee.  Mind In Nature.  Harper and Row, San Francisco, 1982.

 

J. Z. Young.  Philosophy and the Brain.  OUP, 1989.  Includes parts on perceiving as an active process, learning and valuing, and the relationship of these to happenings in the brain.

 

Colin Blakemore and Susan Greenfield, editors.  Mindwaves.  Thoughts on Intelligence, Identity and Consciousness.  Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.

 

Zohar, Danah.  The Quantum  Self  A Revolutionary View of Human Nature and Consciousness Rooted in the New Physics.

Bloomsbury, London, 1990

 

Michael  Lockwood.  Mind, Brain and the Quantum.  Blackwell, 1989.

 

Freya Mathews.   The Ecological Self.  Routledge, London, 1991.

 

See also

P.F. Strawson, Scepticism and Naturalism.  Methuen, London, 1985, Ch. 3.

 

Donald Davidson.  Essays on Actions and Events.  Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980.

 

and articles in The Oxford Companion to the Mind.

 

 

There is a right-up-to-date summary of the debate in a recent edition of The New Scientist.

There are also some folders in the library, from recent Process Thought conferences, with some very interesting articles.

See also attached, recent additions to the St Paul’s/ACU Library.

 

 

Recent Additions to the Library (Dewey decimal 126 and 128.2 mostly)

 

The following collections:

 

The Mind-Body Problem: A Guide to the Current Debate.  Edited by Richard Warner and Tadensz.  Blackwell, Oxford, 1994.

 

The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates.  Edited by Ned Block, Owen Flanagan and Guven Guzeldere.  MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1997.

 

Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem.  Edited by Jonathan Shear.  MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995-7.

 

 

Plus the following:

 

Roger Penrose et al.  The Large, the Small and the Human Mind.  CUP, 1997.

 

John R. Searle.  The Mystery of Consciousness.  Granta Books, London, 1997.

 

John R. Searle.  The Rediscovery of the Mind.  MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992.

 

Owen Flanagan.  Consciousness Reconsidered. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.,  1992….

 

 

For (much, much) more, see David Chalmers’ Home Page, at www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/ .

 

 

Video: “Is Mind Distinct from Body?” The Examined Life, 3.  In library: SP 128.2

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