The Living Mind: From Psyche to Consciousness

by Richard Dien Winfield

As enthusiasm for computational models of the mind has waned and the revolution in neuroscience has progressed, attention in philosophy and cognitive science has shifted toward more biological approaches. The Living Mind establishes that mind cannot be immaterial or reduced to mechanistic or cybernetic processes, but must instead possess a subjectivity embodied in an animal organism. On this basis, the work proceeds to show why mind involves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442211555
• ISBN13: 9781442211551
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher