The Science + Art of the Mind
Reading List
Readings for the course are selected from the following texts.
Required Reading
Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
by Donald D. Hoffman
Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain
by Semir Zeki
Synaptic Self
by Joseph LeDoux
Eye and Brain, The Psychology of Seeing
by Richard L. Gregory
Recommended Reading
The Fabric of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
Looking for Spinoza
by Antonio R. Damasio
Descartes’ Error
by Antonio R. Damasio
The Feeling of What Happens
by Antonio R. Damasio
A Universe of Consciousness
by Gerald Edelman
The Quest for Consciousness
by Christof Koch
The Blank Slate
by Steven Pinker
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire
by Gerald Edelman
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
The Mystery of Consciousness
by John R. Searle
How Brains Think
by William H. Calvin
The Working Brain
by A.R. Luria
The Emperor’s New Mind
by Roger Penrose
Inside the Brain
by Roger Kotulak
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley
The Society of Mind
by Marvin Minsky
The Core Text of Neuroanatomy
by Malcom B. Carpenter
Neuroanatomy Made Easy and Understandable
by David S. Gertz
The Mind’s Eye
by Alan Wolfe