Mind in Science: A History of Explanations in Psychology and Physics [Hardcover]

Richard L. Gregory (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 31, 1981

PART I: FORGING SCIENCE FROM MYTH 1 - MIND IN MYTH * Babylonian * Egyptian * Greek * Modern Accounts of Myth 2 - TOOLS THAT CHALLENGED MYTH - Hand Tools - Mind Tools 3 - LESSONS FROM MACHINES 4 - EXORCISMS OF MIND - Alchemy to Chemistry - Astrology to Astronomy 5 - CONCEPTS IN SCIENCE - Ancient Concepts - Modern Concepts PART 2 - LINKS TO MIND 6 - LINKS OF LIGHT - Perceiving from a distance - Newton's theory of light - Light now - The world imaged in the eyes - Delay in the light link 7 - LINKS OF NERVE - Pneuma in nerves - Electricity in nerves: action potentials (nerve function) - Delay in the nerve link: the Personal Equation 8 - LINKS OF LOGIC - What are Deductive Links? - What are Inductive Links? PART 3 - LINKS OF MIND 9 - LINKS OF MEMORY 10 - THE NATURE AND NURTURE OF INTELLIGENCE 11 - LINKS OF MIND - Chains of Knowledge 12 - LINKS OF BRAIN - Brain Copies: - Brain Images: Rene Descartes - Brain Inferences: Hermann von Helholtz - Brain Analogues: Gestalt Psychology - Brain Models: Kenneth Craik - Cell Assemblies and Phase Sequences: Donald Hebb - Seeing without brain links? : J.J. Gibson - Seeing Machines: 13 - MEANING TO SAY 14 - MEANING TO DREAM PART 4: REGARDING CONSCIOUSNESS 15 - WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? 16 - HOW ARE MIND AND BRAIN LINKED? PART 5 - MIND IN US 17 - The Self - Where is Mind? 18 - Science in Mind PART 6 - MIND IN SCIENCE 19 - the Nurture of Physics 20 - The Nature of Knowledge

Product Details

• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; First Edition edition (August 31, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521243076
• ISBN-13: 978-0521243070
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,133,289 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a mind in the history of how we think, January 30, 2002

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This review is from: Mind in Science: A History of Explanations in Psychology and Physics (Hardcover)

The history of thought is too often streamed into philosophy or science with a bit of psychology thrown in. This book is a jump from the academic mainstream and fascinates by a journey from the easliest recorded thinkers in the first known writing in Sumeria, through the gnomen (the Sumerian word for the finger on the sundial that measures time) to the knowledge and philosophy of Ancient Greece (they had cogwheels and gears) through classical times to the present. This is a history of science from a philosphical perspective, a reflection on the recorded mind of man. Richard Gregory is a philosopher, a scientist and a man who knows as much as anyone knows how the brain works. A tour de force, this book will change you by captivating and entertaining as well as profoundly altering your mind.