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。

湯浅 泰雄（ゆあさ やすお、1925年6月5日 - 2005年11月9日）は、日本の哲学者。 福岡県出身。東京大学文学部倫理学科、同大学経済学部卒、同大学院修士課程修了。1973年「近代日本の哲学と実存思想」で東大文学博士。山梨大学助教授、教授、1975年大阪大学に新設された日本学の教授、1981年筑波大学教授、89年定年退官、桜美林大学教授。身体論、気の思想、超心理学、ユング心理学等に関心を示し、多くの著書を残した。 同じ和辻哲郎門下の吉沢伝三郎とは生涯無二の親友であった。 譯者黃文宏，1998年德國弗萊堡（Freiburg i. Br.）大學哲學博士，現為國立清華大學哲學研究所教授。專長領域為現象學、詮釋學、近現代日本哲學、日治時期台灣哲學。相關學術著作有〈論洪耀勳「真理論的絕對辯證法」的構想〉（2017）、〈西田幾多郎論善與宗教〉 （2016）...(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)

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)

In Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind, Hagstrom breaks new ground with a deep analysis of Buffett's essential wisdom, an intricate mosaic of wide-ranging ideas and insights that Buffett calls a Money Mind. What exactly is a Money Mind? At one level, it's a way of thinking about major financial issues such as capital allocation. At another level, it summarizes an ove...(展开全部)