Reflections on Mind and the Image of Reality - Hardcover

by Jason Brown (Author)

This collection of brief essays and still briefer commentaries is a personal reflection on some topics that have been thematic in the development of my theoretical work. These essays are not meant to extend the theory into yet-uncharted territory, but rather to draw out some of its implications for clinical neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and everyday life. The point of view guiding these reflections can be found in prior works, but the discerning reader will not fail to see a departure from current models of mind and brain based on circuit board diagrams, modular and computational theories that conflict with a processual account in which the mind/brain is more like a living organism. This perspective, which is often at odds with common sense and folk psychology, has particular relevance to our concepts of the self, the inner life, subjective time, adaptive process, and the world represented in perception.

Author Biography

Dr. Jason Brown is clinical professor, Department of Neurology, New York University Medical Center, with appointments at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Boston University, Albert Einstein Medical College, and Rockefeller University. He has written fifteen books in neuropsychology and philosophy of mind, edited four others, and over two hundred scientific articles. He has been a reviewer and recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and is or has been on the editorial boards of leading journals in his field.