The Mind of Man

by Nigel Calder

Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Impassioned Machine
Mazes of the Mind
Mind Emerges
Index

288 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1970

Reviews

[Sankar · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a very old book to read upon a topic as complex and advanced as brain research. Compared to 1970, our understanding of human brain is so advanced now. Never the less, this book provides a basic understanding into various aspects of human brain, Neuro-psychology and more interestingly how exactly some of these research were pioneered.
I started reading this book almost 7 years ago and finished it now. [Not because it is a bad book, i just never got around to it earlier].

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Going through the psychology section of my library I came upon this, a title which has been sitting on the shelves for decades, a book published back in 1970, back when I first started to become interested in psychology. Written, as it was, to accompany a British television documentary, I knew it wouldn't be too tough. Written, as it was, by a professional science writer, I figured it wouldn't be poorly done.

The preliminary estimations were correct. Calder writes well, the material was clearly handled and the fact that the book was so old meant that it reviewed a great deal of stuff I'd studied--or at least had heard about--years ago. Furthermore, it was mainline, very mainline insofar as it is taken for granted that consciousness is representative of brain functioning.

Interestingly, Noam Chomsky is taken seriously and at length in the text, contrasted to B.F. Skinner. Kant, however, antecedant to Chomsky, Bernstein, Jung and all the modern transcendental deductionists, is never mentioned, philosophy and philosophers being given little positive attention.

[Frank Spencer · Rating 5 out of 5]

a good summary of what we knew about neuropsychology in 1973; as an added bonus, this copy has the addresses where I lived in Miami in the front