The Best Mind & Body Philosophy Books 2025

1. Consciousness Unfolding [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. "The subject matter of this book is the unfolding of consciousness. That means God revealing, disclosing Itself as individual consciousness. Therefore, this work is an individual matter, and it must be attained through individual effort. Success will come about in proportion as you attain some measure of spiritual consciousness. The point we are emphasizing is that God is the consciousness of the individual, and that consciousness is unfolding the infinity of its own being as person, place, or thing. It is all your consciousness unfolding.

Consciousness Unfolding, Used [Paperback]

2. Consciousness: An Introduction [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Now in a new edition, this innovative text is the first volume to bring together all the major theories of consciousness studies--from those rooted in traditional Western philosophy to those coming out of neuroscience, quantum theory, and Eastern philosophy. Broadly interdisciplinary, Consciousness: An Introduction, Second Edition, is divided into nine sections that examine such topics as how subjective experiences arise from objective brain processes, the basic neuroscience and neuropathology of consciousness, altered states of consciousness, mystical experiences and dreams, and the effects of drugs and meditation. It also discusses the nature of self, the possibility of artificial consciousness in robots, and the question of whether or not animals are conscious. PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES * Profiles of important philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and biologists involved in consciousness studies * "Concept" text boxes that elucidate specific aspects of consciousness * "Practice" and "Activity" text boxes that encourage students to engage in practical exercises in class and at home * Bold marginal quotations that emphasize key ideas, and suggestions for further reading

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3. Consciousness [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This volume presents a critical overview of current conceptions of conciousness, relating it to specific areas of the brain and their chemical and physical states. It charts the various states of waking, dreaming and non-conciousness using theories of neuroscience, psychiatry and neurophysiology.

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4. Human Consciousness, Used [Hardcover]

The author discusses recent work in philosophical psychology touching on consciousness. Preceded by a historical sketch of ways in which philosophers have approached the topic in the past, the discussion highlights a recent shift away from Cartesian philosophy to physical sciences.

Human Consciousness, Used [Hardcover]

5. The Psychology of Consciousness, 2nd Revised Edition [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In this revised edition of his revolutionary study, Ornstein reexamines what is known about consciousness today through a consideration of intuition and reason.

The Psychology of Consciousness, 2nd Revised Edition, Used [Paperback]

6. Analysis of Mind [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. One of Russell's most important and interesting books which reconciles the materialistic tendency of psychology with the anti-materialistic tendency of physics.

The Analysis of Mind, Used [Paperback]

7. Seeing Red : A Study in Consciousness, Used [Hardcover]

From sensations that probably began in bodily expression to the evolutionary advantages of a conscious self, 'Seeing Red' tracks the 'hard problem' of consciousness to its source and its solution, a solution in which, paradoxically, the very hardness of the problem may make all the difference.

Seeing Red : A Study in Consciousness, Used [Hardcover]

8. Will Therapy (The Norton library) (English and German Edition), Used [Paperback]

Will Therapy (The Norton library) (English and German Edition) by Otto Rank

Will Therapy (The Norton library) (English and German Edition), Used [Paperback]

9. A Universe Of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a full-scale theory of consciousness based on direct observation of the human brain in action. Their pioneering work, presented here in an elegant style, challenges much of the conventional wisdom about consciousness. The Universe of Consciousness has enormous implications for our understanding of language, thought, emotion, and mental illness.

A Universe of Consciousness : How Matter Becomes Imagination, Used [Hardcover]

10. Philosophy and the Evolution of Consciousness: Owen Barfield's Saving the Appearances [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The history of philosophy has been studied as if it were a long discussion between participants of differing opinions living in different ages, but all in the same world. Though Heraclitus and Descartes can no longer respond to new questions or current attacks on their positions, nevertheless, to the degree that we are all human, and all live in the same world, such questions and attacks are reasonably fair. Until recently. In the last 50 years, the significance of the qualifier "to the degree that" has changed radically. What if it turns out that, as far as living in the same world goes, we today actually have very little in common with Heraclitus, or even Descartes? Then we are attempting to carry on discussions with participants who are not our contemporaries, and the world they were speculating about is not the same world we today are speculating about. Then the nature of the discussion - the history of philosophy - takes on a very different character. Philosophy and the Evolution of Consciousness takes talk of "alternative conceptual schemes" current in philosophy today and applies it in the very place most likely to warrant the change: the history of philosophy itself.

Philosophy and the Evolution of Consciousness: Owen Barfield's Saving the Appearances, Used [Paperback]