Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience

Chapter 1 Beginnings: Ventricular Psychology

Chapter 2 Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of the Mind and Brain Sciences

Chapter 3 ‘Struck, As It Were, with Madness’: Phenomenology and Animal Spirits in the Neuropathology of Thomas Willis

Chapter 4 Hooke’s Mechanical Mind

Chapter 5 Joseph Priestley: An Instructive Eighteenth Century Perspective on the Mind-Body Problem

Chapter 6 Reflections of Western Thinking on Nineteenth Century Ottoman Thought: A Critique of the ‘Hard-Problem’ by Spyridon Mavrogenis, a Nineteenth Century Physiologist

Chapter 7 George Henry Lewes (1817–1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception

Chapter 8 Herbert Spencer: Brain, Mind and the Hard Problem

Chapter 9 Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and American Neurology

Chapter 10 Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Reflections on Consciousness

Chapter 11 William James and the “Theatre” of Consciousness

Chapter 12 The Enigmatic Deciphering of the Neuronal Code of Word Meaning

Chapter 13 Alfred North Whitehead and the History of Consciousness

Chapter 14 The ‘Hard Problem’ and the Cartesian Strand in British Neurophysiology: Huxley, Foster, Sherrington, Eccles

Chapter 15 Is There a Link Between Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness?

Chapter 16 Consciousness and Neuronal Microtubules: The Penrose-Hameroff Quantum Model in Retrospect

Chapter 17 Zombie Dawn: Slavery and the Self in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 18 Mind and Brain: Toward an Understanding of Dualism