Author: Anthony J. Sanford
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-08-11
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780300105414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How does the mind work? How do human beings perceive and analyze the various aspects of the world around them? Are occasional misinterpretations inevitable, given the way the brain functions? In this book, a distinguished psychologist describes the most important and up-to-date explanations of our mental processes. Designed specifically for a general audience, the book is written in an accessible and lively style and draws on a wide range of familiar situations to illustrate the concepts it presents. Anthony J. Sanford discusses such intriguing topics as memory, reasoning, learning, and problem solving. In each case, he describes the relevant theories and experiments of cognitive science and psychology and shows how they have increased our knowledge. Sanford explains, for example, that language, thinking, intuition, and judgment depend heavily on mental models (existing memory structures that can be used as analogies to understand a new situation). He considers mental models from two points of view: the first seeks to evaluate the processes underlying some of the variety of human understanding; the second examines limitations and errors in thought and imagination that occur as a natural by-product of normal human understanding. Original, comprehensive, and fascinating, this book will be of interest to students, faculty, and lay people alike. "This book is an excellent introduction to the structure of knowledge. It is very readable, clear, and illuminating without being highly technical." -R.L. Gregory, University of Bristol
Author: Michael E. B. Maher
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-16
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 9781521521151
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All through our lives up until the time we are born-again, our minds have been trained to think in a certain way. The bible calls it carnal thinking. That thinking is in direct opposition to God's laws. Once we are born-again God expects us to discard our carnal thinking, and begin to set our minds on the things of the spirit. This book explains how to renew your mind.
Author: James H. Billington
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 0765804719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.
Author: Gilbert Highet
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 023108501X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This brilliant and eloquent book by a distinguished scholar and critic examines the history, the limits, and the promise of the human mind and the knowledge of which it is capable. Professor Highet explores the meaning of our culture from the intellectual and moral monuments of the Greeks, Romans, and Judeo-Christians, and our contemporary thinkers. Out of this book comes a clear definition of knowledge and insights into the strength and limitations of the mind.
Author: Ronald H. Nash
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The last two centuries of Christian theology are the record of an evolving attack on the role of knowledge in the Christian faith. The purpose of this book is to challenge the major forms of Christian agnosticism and offer an alternative theory that makes human knowledge about God possible. In other words, is there a relationship between the human mind and the divine mind that is sufficient to ground the communication of truth from God to humans?
Author: Swami Nihsreyasananda
Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math(vedantaebooks.org)
Published: 2021-03-06
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 817823596X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The present book is a collection of the editorial articles written by Swami Nihsreyasananda, an eminent monk of the Ramakrishna Order well-known for his depth of Scholarly thinking. These articles deal with man's struggles with his mind. The author shows how an undisciplined and uncontrolled mind is the cause of numerous problems not only for the individual but the society as well. The Swami through bright illustrations and quotations from Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Sri Sarada Devi and the scriptures depicts the ways and means of bringing the mind under control.
Author: Daniel Richardson
Publisher: Aurum Press
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1781316708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Where do our thoughts come from? Do we all see the same blue? And how much is our eye really like a camera? The mind is the tool that sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, and the most crucial part of our very being – but what actually is it? From trying to decide whether or not we’re robots, understanding why some people commit acts of violence, to figuring out the art of persuasion; this essential guide to the inner workings of our minds explores the questions we really want to know the answers to. Making the complex comprehensible, this informative book provides a new insight into how our minds work and the role they play in modern life. Whether it’s pondering over why you’re usually right about everything, or discovering colour; Man vs Mind shows that you don’t need to be a psychologist to understand more about what’s going on up there!