Psychology

PSYCHOLOGY

The main feature of this part of the web-site will be a network of ideas and arguments developed from readings itemized below as reviews of books or articles. The principal themes will be rationality, cognition and belief, and the emphasis will be practical: the aim is to help people find their way around in these areas.

The principle behind the site is that mapping is central to cognition. This is discussed here: MAPPING.

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY BOOK REVIEWS

Baldi - The Shattered Self - The End of Natural Evolution.
Benton - Food For Thought - How what you eat affects your mood, memory and thinking.
Buller - Adapting Minds - Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature.
Carter - Mapping the Mind.
Flanagan - The Problem of the Soul - Two visions of mind and how to reconcile them.
Greenfield - The Human Brain - A Guided Tour.
Bannister and Fransella - Inquiring Man - The Psychology of Personal Constructs.
Martin - The Sickening Mind - Brain, behaviour, immunity and disease.
Myers - Intuition - Its powers and perils.
Rose and Rose - Alas, Poor Darwin - Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology.
Rosenfeld - The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten - An Anatomy of Consciousness.