The mind made flesh : essays from the frontiers of psychology and evolution
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The mind made flesh : essays from the frontiers of psychology and evolution
Oxford University Press, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to 'take another look' at a variety of the central and not-so-central issues: the evolution of consciousness, the nature of the self, multiple personality disorder, the placebo effect, cave art, religious miracles, medieval animal trials, the seductions of dictatorship, and much more.
Table of Contents
- 1. On Taking Another Look
- 2. One Self: a Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness
- 3. What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made?
- 4. Speaking for Our Selves: an Assessment of Multiple Personality
- 5. Love Knots
- 6. The Uses of Consciousnes
- 7. Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing*
- 8. Great Expectations: the Evolutionary Psychology of Faith Healing and the Placebo Effect
- 9. Scientific Shakespeare
- 10. How to solve the Mind Body Problem
- 11. The Privitization of Sensation
- 12. Mind in Nature
- 13. Cave Art, Autism and the Evolution of the Human Mind
- 14. The Deformed Transformed
- 15. Varieties of Altruism and the Common Ground between Them
- 16. Bugs and Beasts before the Law
- 17. The Number of the Beast
- 18. Behold the Man
- 19. Tall Stories from Little Acorns Grow
- 20. Hello Aquarius
- 21. What Shall We Tell the Children?
- 22. Arms and the Man
- 23. Death in Tripoli
- 24. Follow my leader
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