The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World

The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World One of our most original thinkers addresses the scientific world’s premier question: What is the nature of consciousness? In recent years the nature of consciousness-our immediately known experiences-has taken its place as the most profound problem that science faces. Now in this brilliant and thoroughly accessible [...]

Handbook of Preschool Mental Health: Development, Disorders, and Treatment

Handbook of Preschool Mental Health: Development, Disorders, and Treatment This important volume comprehensively explores the development of psychiatric disorders in 2- to 6-year-olds, detailing how the growing empirical knowledge base may lead to improved interventions for young children and their families. Leading contributors examine advances in the conceptualization and diagnosis of early-onset disruptive disorders, mood [...]

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind Series)

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind Series) What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among [...]