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Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind Evan Thompson
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Doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00357.x · PsycINFO Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 85-93. Theory of Mind is the branch of cognitive science that investigates how we ascribe mental states to other persons and how we use the states to explain and predict the actions of those other persons. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge; 2007); q.v. (1991) The Embodied Mind, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Modern biological science is convinced that all of this is not the activity of a trans-substantial soul but the result of electrochemical processes playing out across the structure of our brains. Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. Developmental Science, 7(4), 391-424. Mind in life: Biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind. Finally, the claim─common to both theorists of theory and theorists of simulation─that mindreading plays a primary role in human social understanding was challenged in the early 21st century, mainly by phenomenology-oriented philosophers and cognitive scientists. Doi: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01836-2 . (2007) Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, Harvard UP. Philosophers of mind and Buddhist scholars alike will find many new insights throughout this groundbreaking book.” — Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology and the Sciences of Mind. Episode 89 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. Autopoiesis and Cognition: The realization of the Living. Mind in life: biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind. At least on some accounts (Hume's comes to mind) the desire to know the truth is at odds with the beliefs we need to live a healthy life: how then do we account for the lived reality of the desire to know the truth, which surely motivates the scientist qua scientist?