Category
page 1Books about consciousness
The Phenomenology of Spirit
essay by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Meditations on First Philosophy
philosophy book by Descartes
Gödel, Escher, Bach
1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter
Consciousness Explained
book by Daniel Dennett
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
essay by Julian Jaynes
Laws of Form
1969 non-fiction book by G. Spencer-Brown
Time and Free Will
Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis, first published in 1889
The Psychedelic Experience
book by Timothy Leary
The Concept of Mind
1949 book by Gilbert Ryle critiquing Cartesian mind-body dualism; introduced the 'ghost in the machine' critique and the knowing-how / knowing-that distinction later foundational to Peter Naur's theory of programming