Mind the Body provides the first comprehensive treatment of bodily awareness and of the sense of bodily ownership, combining philosophical analysis with recent experimental results from cognitive science. Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it. Yet bodily awareness has attracted little attentio...(展开全部)

"There are books--few and far between--which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."--Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle

How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology. There is a growing consensus across these disciplines that the contribution of embodiment to cognition is inescapable. Because this insight has been develop...(展开全部)

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitabl...(展开全部)

巴塞尔·范德考克（Bessel van der Kolk）是世界知名心理创伤治疗大师，位于布鲁克林的创伤中心的创始人和医疗主管。他也是波士顿大学医学院的精神科教授、国家创伤综合征治疗联盟（National Complex Trauma Treatment Network）的主任。他经常在世界各地教学，主要在波士顿工作和生活。

'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatme...(展开全部)

Anthony A.Long,加州大学伯克利分校古典学教授。 Anthony A. Long是古典学界的重量级人物，《心灵与自我的希腊模式》是他在中国人民大学的演讲稿，共六讲，计10万字。作者关注于古希腊时期心灵、自我与个人同一性的观念，谈及荷马史诗中的灵肉同一性、前柏拉图哲学对不朽性的暗示、柏拉图政治化的灵魂与理性的统治、亚里士多德与斯多亚派中的同一性与友爱等，以简洁的方式呈现了古希腊时期的观念变迁史。

We’re used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel , philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brainan internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is a virtual self in a ...(展开全部)

This is a radical rethinking of the nature of consciousness. "The Ego Tunnel", a major work from one of the brightest of the new generation of philosophers of mind, proposes a simple yet radical rethinking of the nature of consciousness and a fascinating and controversial exploration of what it implies. We're used to thinking of the self's relation to the world as a dyad-the in...(展开全部)