Believing that mind-body theories will offer a unified account of mind in its relation to body, Cynthia Macdonald traces the complex history of this theory and focuses on the different arguments of J.J.C. Smart and David Lewis among others. This book should be of interest to advanced students and lecturers of philosophy.

辛西娅·麦克唐纳，牛津大学哲学博士，曾先后在英国曼彻斯特大学、荷兰乌德勒支大学、新西兰坎特伯雷大学、英国贝尔法斯特女王大学任教，2011年后任英国曼彻斯特大学社会科学学院哲学教授，主要研究领域为形而上学与心灵哲学的交叉领域和认知科学，尤其是其中的心理因果关系、心理学解释的本质、外在主义和自我认识方面，发表论文50余篇，代表性著作有《各种各样的事物：当代形而上学的基础》和《心身同一论》等，是当代最为重要的心灵哲学家之一。

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)

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)

Buddha Mind, Buddha Body expands uponthe themes inThich Nhat Hanh’sbook Understanding Our Mind. It opens with the question: Is free will possible? This concept becomes a leitmotif as the authorconsiders how the mind functions and how we can work with it to cultivate more freedom and understanding, how to be in closer touch with reality, and how to create the conditions for o...(展开全部)

What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These are questions with which philosophers have grappled for centuries, and they are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well. Hilary Putnam has approached the divisions between perception and reality and between mind and body with great creativity th...(展开全部)

一行禪師（Thich Nhat Hanh） 1926年生於越南中部，十六歲時在慈孝寺當見習憎，後來赴美研究並教學。 越戰期間返國從事和平運動，對於越南的年輕僧眾起了重大啟發，戰爭結束代表參加巴黎和談。越南赤化後，一行禪師被放逐海外，在2005年第一次回返越南，2007年2月至5月也再次回到越南。 1967年美國黑人民權領袖馬丁路德?金恩提名他角逐諾貝爾和平獎。 1982年他在法國南部建立了「梅村」禪修道場。 1995年曾到台灣弘法並主持禪七法會。 一行禪師是當今國際社會中最具宗教影響力的僧人之一，以禪師、詩人、人道主義者聞名於世。 著作超過一百本，都是教導人們在生活中實踐佛法，已在台灣出版的有：《生生基督世世佛》《步步安樂行》《與生命相約》《你可以不生氣》《你可以不怕死》《正念的奇蹟》《觀照的奇蹟》《見佛殺佛》《橘子禪》《你可以，愛》《祈禱的力量》

Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than ps...(展开全部)