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Mystery of Consciousness

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John R. Searle
Mystery of Consciousness
New York Review of Books, 1997

This era is at once the most exciting and the most frustrating for the study of consciousness in my intellectual lifetime: exciting because consciousness has again become respectable, indeed almost central, as a subject of investigation in philosophy, cognitive science, and even neuroscience; frustrating because the whole subject is still plagued with mistakes and errors I thought had long been exposed.

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Ahab's Wife Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 4:06pm
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Sena Jeter Naslund. Ahab's Wife Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel. New York: Morrow, 1999.

Commentary by Anne Dalke,

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Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 4:04pm
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T.M. Luhrmann, Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry, Vintage Books, 2000

Commentary by Anneliese Butler. a Bryn Mawr alum

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Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:40pm
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Randal Keynes, Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution. Riverhead, 2001

Commentary by Anne Dalke (August 2006).

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Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:38pm
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Robert Jourdain, Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination, William Morrow Press, 1997

Commentary by Amber Baum, Bryn Mawr 1998. Amber wrote this review during her senior year as a Biology major and Neural and Behavioral Sciences concentrator and is continuing her education as a doctoral student in neuroscience.

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The Nature of Economies

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:36pm
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Jane Jacobs, The Nature of Economies, Modern Library, 2000

Commentary by Jed Grobstein. Jed wrote this commentary between his freshman and sophomore years at Pomonoma College.

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A review of An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:29pm

Biology 202
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A review of An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

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Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:25pm
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Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism. Vintage, 2005

Commentary by Paul Grobstein (August 2006).

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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:21pm
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Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. Schocken, 2006

Commentary by Anne Dalke, August 2006.

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:13pm
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Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998

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