Books
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- Chomsky, Noam Language and Mind (1968). Parts available on-line.
- Chalmers, David The Conscious Mind (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). An interesting monograph on consciousness by a philosopher who believes that a materialistic reduction of consciousness is impossible.
- Kaiser, Peter K. Joy of Visual Perception. An on-line book on the anatomy & physiology of vision, and on visual psychophysics.
- How Brains Think William H. Calvin's 1996 book on evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and language.
- Berkeley, George A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. An important work in the history of empiricism and idealism, and a string influence on David Hume. Full text on-line.
- Gibson, James J. Purple Perils. A collection of Gibson's private notes for seminars from 1954 to 1979, available on-line.
- Aristotle De Anima [On the Soul]. One of the first western statements on psychology, and still influential. Full text on-line.
- Brentano, Franz Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. An influential thinker on the philosophy of mind and the inventor of the concept of "intentiality." Chap. 1 on-line.
- Cziko, Gary Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution (MIT Press, 1995). Argues for "universal Darwinism": "that a Darwinian mechanism is the only way to account for any kind of systematic fitness, in any domain".
- Baldwin, James M. Mental Development in the Child and the Race. "Represents a pioneer effort to present a picture of the social nature of the self and the manner of its growth," by one of the founders of American psychology. Full text on-line.
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