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Submitted by anneliese on Sat, 05/01/2010 - 9:58am

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Imaging And The Question of Consciousness - Paper

Submitted by rdanfort on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 5:18pm

Discussion Paper – Imaging and Consciousness

Pick up a newspaper, and you will discover an amazing thing: we are living in the future. The for-real future of jet-packs, ray-guns, and mind reading. Our revolutionary imaging technology can determine what memories you are accessing, what shapes you are seeing, the degree to which a decade of happy hour has smoothed your prefrontal cortex, and whether or not you associate the face of John Edwards with a particularly debauched collection of short stories. So it would seem, anyway.

Neurobiology and Behavior Book Commentaries 2010

Students in Biology 202 at Bryn Mawr College write commentaries on books of interest to themselves related to neurobiology and behavior. These are made available via links from the index below to encourage further exploration by others having similar or related interests. All papers have associated on-line forums for continuing conversation.

aeraeber	From Molecules to Memory: A Commentary on Eric Kandel’s In Search of Memory
AndyMittelman	Neurobiological Reflections on "The Matrix"
Caroline H	The Female Brain
Colette	Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Congwen Wang	The Butterflies of Our Mind
cschoonover	Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
dvergara	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: ‘Living’ life via the mind
egleichman	Book Review
emily	Science Needs Art: A Commentary on Jonah Lehrer's "Proust Was a Neuroscientist"
ewippermann	Metaphors We Live By: Conceptualizing Through Metaphor
gloudon	Book commentary- Pink Brain Blue Brain
Hannah Silverblank	“To Speak of Tales and Fables": The Imposition of Narrative in Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other C
hmarcia	My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming
Jeanette Bates	"Crazy Like Us"
JJLopez	The Psychopath
kdilliplan	New Perspectives on Color Vision in Jasper Fforde’s "Shades of Grey"
kgould	Tackling Trauma
Kwarlizzle	Reviewing Paul Gifford’s Ghana’s New Christianity.
Lauren McD	Social Epidemics
lfrontino	The Female Brain
mcchen	Where is the Mango Princess Book Commentary
mcurrie	Freedom and the Individual
MEL	"The Forbidden Experiment" Book Commentary
meroberts	Learning from a lifetime of research: Implications to Neurobiology
mleung01	Musciophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
molivares	Book Commentary on Musicophilia: Tales of Music and The Brain
natmackow	Oliver Sacks: An Anthropologist on Mars
Raven	Eric Kandel: In Search of Memory
Riki	The Emperor's New Drugs
rkirloskar	My Stroke of Insight
Saba Ashraf	An Anthropologist On Mars Book Commentary
Schmeltz	Commentary on Biophilia by E.O. Wilson
skim	Sound and Reality, Jonathan Stern's Audible Past
smkaplan	Translating Temple Grandin's 'Animals in Translation'
sophie b.	Soul Made Flesh
sophie b.	Soul Made Flesh
Vicky Tu	Book Review: "Inevitable Illusions"
xhan	race brain & behavior
yml	Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates our Mental World

Science Needs Art: A Commentary on Jonah Lehrer's "Proust Was a Neuroscientist"

Submitted by emily on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 11:34pm

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Philosophy and Recipes

Submitted by jrlewis on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 6:00pm

What to do with William James? His writings on psychology formed the primary textbook for that discipline. The school of philosophy he developed, pragmatism appeals to philosophers and scientists alike. Jacques Barzun identifies him as an American hero. So it would seem that the works of William James have been assimilated into American culture and intellectual life. If this is true, then what is the point of reading his original writings? Or why should one use “The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive