Commentary: Concentrating the Mind

Mirror neurons and mind: commentary on vivona.

A commentary on theory of mind

“You don’t know what I’m thinking,” my 3-year-old granddaughter called to me from her car seat. Her out of-the-blue, metacognitive comment confirmed that, despite inconsistent performance on false belief tasks, young children reveal sophisticated mindreading abilities in their spontaneous talk (Shatz, 1994). At the least, she was concerned with knowledge in another’s mind. But her statement sug...

Life in Mind Commentary on Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind Psyche symposium

I found Thompson’s recasting of the sciences and philosophy of mind to be timely, wide-ranging, and accessible, as audacious as it is meticulous. The author repeatedly confronts the Cartesian split between mind and body, as it appears in various guises, in various literatures. Each time he works through it by integrating methods and findings from more sources than cognitive science or, I take i...

Mind in Objectivism A Survey of Objectivist Commentary on Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of mind is the branch of metaphysics that studies the basic nature and capacities of the mind. The primary issue of philosophy of mind is the “mind-body problem,” described in Anthony Flew's A Dictionary of Philosophy as the “problem of how the mind is related to the body, and of what properties, functions, and occurrences should be regarded as, respectively, menta...

Invited commentary: be prepared to change your mind.