The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution

Forsideomslag
Oxford University Press, 2002 - 366 sider
Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to 'take another look' at a variety of the central and not-so-central issues: the evolution of consciousness, the nature of the self, multiple personality disorder, the placebo effect, cave art, religious miracles, medieval animal trials, the seductions of dictatorship, and much more.

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On Taking Another Look
1
A Meditation on the Unity
7
What Is Your Substance Whereof Are You Made?
15
Love Knots
49
The Uses of Consciousness
65
Farewell Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing
86
The Privatization of Sensation
115
Mind in Nature
129
Hello Aquarius
232
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
235
The Evolutionary Psychology of Faith Healing and the Placebo Effect
255
SEDUCTIONS
287
What Shall We Tell the Children?
289
The Number of the Beast
318
Arms and the Man
320
Death in Tripoli
327

Scientific Shakespeare
162
PRETENCES
201
Tall Stories from Little Acorns Grow
203
Human Nature and Supernatural Belief
206
Follow My Leader
330
Notes
340
Index
363
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