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

by Humphrey, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780192802279
• ISBN10: 0192802275
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

On Taking Another Look	1	(6)
SELVES
One Self: A Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness	7	(8)
What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made?	15	(4)
Speaking for Our Selves: An Assessment of Multiple Personality Disorder	19	(30)
Love Knots	49	(3)
Varieties of Altruism---and the Common Ground Between Them	52	(13)
FEELINGS
The Uses of Consciousness	65	(21)
Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear for My Possessing	86	(4)
How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem	90	(25)
The Privatization of Sensation	115	(14)
DISCOVERIES
Mind in Nature	129	(3)
Cave Art, Autism, and the Evolution of the Human Mind	132	(30)
Scientific Shakespeare	162	(3)
The Deformed Transformed	165	(38)
PRETENCES
Tall Stories from Little Acorns Grow	203	(3)
Behold the Man: Human Nature and Supernatural Belief	206	(26)
Hello, Aquarius!	232	(3)
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law	235	(20)
Great Expectations: The Evolutionary Psychology of Faith Healing and the Placebo Effect	255	(34)
SEDUCTIONS
What Shall We Tell the Children?	289	(29)
The Number of the Beast	318	(2)
Arms and the Man	320	(7)
Death in Tripoli	327	(3)
Follow My Leader	330	(10)
Notes	340	(23)
Index	363