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- Aristotle - De Anima [On the Soul]. One of the first western statements on psychology, and still influential. Full text on-line.
classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.html
- Baldwin, James M. - Mental Development in the Child and the Race. "Represents a pioneer effort to present a picture of the social nature of the self and the manner of its growth," by one of the founders of American psychology. Full text on-line.
spartan.ac.brocku.ca/%7Elward/baldwin/Baldwin_1906/Baldwin_1906_toc.html
- Berkeley, George - A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. An important work in the history of empiricism and idealism, and a string influence on David Hume. Full text on-line.
www.utm.edu/research/iep/b/berkeley.htm
- Brentano, Franz - Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. An influential thinker on the philosophy of mind and the inventor of the concept of "intentiality." Chap. 1 on-line.
werple.net.au/~gaffcam/phil/brentano.htm
- Chalmers, David - The Conscious Mind (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). An interesting monograph on consciousness by a philosopher who believes that a materialistic reduction of consciousness is impossible.
www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/book/tcm.html
- Chomsky, Noam - Language and Mind (1968). Parts available on-line.
werple.net.au/~gaffcam/phil/chomsky.htm
- Cziko, Gary - Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution (MIT Press, 1995). Argues for "universal Darwinism": "that a Darwinian mechanism is the only way to account for any kind of systematic fitness, in any domain".
www.ed.uiuc.edu/people/gac/without_miracles
- Gibson, James J. - Purple Perils. A collection of Gibson's private notes for seminars from 1954 to 1979, available on-line.
lor.trincoll.edu/~psyc/perils
- How Brains Think - William H. Calvin's 1996 book on evolution of consciousness, intelligence, and language.
faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/bk8
- Kaiser, Peter K. - Joy of Visual Perception. An on-line book on the anatomy & physiology of vision, and on visual psychophysics.
www.yorku.ca/eye
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