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Berkeley, George - http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/b/berkeley.htm
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. An important work in the history of empiricism and idealism, and a string influence on David Hume. Full text on-line. |
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Kaiser, Peter K. - http://www.yorku.ca/eye/
Joy of Visual Perception. An on-line book on the anatomy & physiology of vision, and on visual psychophysics. |
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How Brains Think - http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/bk8/
William H. Calvin's 1996 book on evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and language. |
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Aristotle - http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.html
De Anima [On the Soul]. One of the first western statements on psychology, and still influential. Full text on-line. |
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Gibson, James J. - http://lor.trincoll.edu/~psyc/perils/
Purple Perils. A collection of Gibson's private notes for seminars from 1954 to 1979, available on-line. |
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Chalmers, David - http://ling.ucsc.edu/~chalmers/tcm.html
The Conscious Mind (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). An interesting monograph on consciousness by a philosopher who believes that a materialistic reduction of consciousness is impossible. |
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Brentano, Franz - http://werple.net.au/~gaffcam/phil/brentano.htm
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. An influential thinker on the philosophy of mind and the inventor of the concept of "intentiality." Chap. 1 on-line. |
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Baldwin, James M. - http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/Baldwin/BALD_008.HTML
Mental Development in the Child and the Race. "Represents a pioneer effort to present a picture of the social nature of the self and the manner of its growth," by one of the founders of American psychology. Full text on-line. |
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Chomsky, Noam - http://werple.net.au/~gaffcam/phil/chomsky.htm
Language and Mind (1968). Parts available on-line. |
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Cziko, Gary - http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/people/gac/without_miracles/
Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution (MIT Press, 1995). Argues for "universal Darwinism": "that a Darwinian mechanism is the only way to account for any kind of systematic fitness, in any domain". |