http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/index.htm

this is a link to Frederick Engels (1873-1886) Dialectics of Nature. this essay was discussed in our last class. The section in the discussion was The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man.

CUSP @ CSCS is looking for applications for the Internship Programme in 2010-2011. Students with a background in the natural or social sciences, and having an interest in interdisciplinary work can apply for the programme. Interest and aptitude to work with questions related to integrated perspectives (integrating biological and cultural markers) on mind, mental health and well- being would be an additional advantage. The internship is envisaged for a period of 1 month. The interns will spend their time between CSCS as well as other institutional spaces that support their work, and will have to work in the libraries. Candidates will be expected, during the period of the internship, to participate in academic events, conduct formal and informal discussions with faculty and students, and to share, at the end of their tenure, a paper on their respective areas of research.

Interested Candidates can contact

Ranjini Krishnan : ranjini_k@cscs.res.in

Book for downloading

The book we are currently reading in the class "Conversations on Consciousness" by Susan Blackmore can be downloaded in the Consciousness-Studies Googlegroup.....please do visit the site for many such other reading material which will help enhance interaction in the class.


Click here to go to the group - Consciousness-Studies Googlegroup

Please use this link to even sign up for the group if you haven't already been able to so that file sharing is made much more simple and easier.

Thank you

conversations on consciousness

http://www.box.net/shared/a649u1hh3n

this is a link to the book conversations on consciousness by susan balckmore

Consciousness Studies - Google Group

Hello everyone

Announcing Consciousness Studies first Google Group - you can access it by clicking here. Apparently quite a few of you haven't been able to get access to it or have not yet become members for various reasons. Please do log into it asap because all the posts, notices and most importantly reading material will be uploaded constantly in the group and we could all enhance the quality of debate in the class.

Anyone new who wishes to join the group or be a part of the class please do join the group and state your purpose in the message space.

Thank you and hope to see everyone in the group soon.

Bhavani

A Quick Look....

Supplementry or Suggested Readings

Chalmers, D. (1996). The conscious mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Changeux, J. P. (1985/1983). Neuronal man: The biology of mind. New York: Pantheon. (original publication 1983).

Damasio, A. (1999). The feeling of what happens. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Dennett, D. (1991). Consciousness explained. Boston: Little Brown.

Dreyfus, H. (1972). What computers can't do: A critique of artificial reason. New York: Harper and Row.

Nagel, T. (1979). What is it like to be a bat? Moral questions. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Popper, K. and Eccles, J. (1078). The self and its brain. London: Springer Verlag.

Searle, J. (1992). The rediscovery of the mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.