My Mind on Books
Blog URL http://www.mymindonbooks.com
Located El Cerrito, California USA
Tags books, mind, nonfiction, philosophy, consciousness, psychology, cognitive science
A book blog focusing on books about the mind, consciousness, cognitive science, philosophy...
Latest Blog Posts
- ‘Migraine Art’ on Nov 16, 2009 in new books psychology
A recent library find—Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson (North Atlantic Books, 2009) [link for UK], a fascinating & beautiful book I probably would not have discovered if it hadn’t been...
- coming soon – ‘The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures’ by Nicholas Wade on Nov 11, 2009 in culture new books book evolution religion
The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade is a preorder as I’m writing but due out from Penguin tomorrow (Nov 12) so it may be available by the time you’re reading this. (link for UK) Product descriptio...
- coming soon – ‘Reading in the Brain’ on Nov 9, 2009 in cognitive science new books reading book brain evolution neuroscience
Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention by Stanislaus Dehaene is due out this Tues (Nov 12) from Viking. (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: A renowned cognitive neuroscientist’s fascinating and hi...
- new book – ‘The Big Questions’ by Steven E. Landsburg on Oct 30, 2009 in new books book philosophy
The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics by Steven E. Landsburg (Free Press, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: In the wake of his enormously popular books Th...
- ‘Fall of Sleep’ by Jean-Luc Nancy on Oct 28, 2009 in consciousness new books philosophy of mind
Found via the Book Bench at the New Yorker: Fall of Sleep by Jean-Luc Nancy, tr. Charlotte Mandell (Fordham University Press, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a use...
- new book – ‘The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind’ on Oct 25, 2009 in cognitive science new books book brain human evolution mind
The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind by John S. Allen (Harvard University Press, 2009) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for insta...
- “It’s all in your mind….” on Oct 24, 2009 in fiction mind fantasy quote Robin Hobb
“It was all in your mind,” Chade told me sometime later, and it stung that he dismissed so lightly all that I had endured. All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it...




