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    Book Reviews

    Depression, Emotion and the Self

    Depression, Emotion and the Self

    Authors: Achim Stephan, Matthew Ratcliffe
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    This is a technical book of philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on the phenomenology of depression. The four parts deal with self and agency, comparative phenomenology,…… Read More »
    The Trauma of Everyday Life

    The Trauma of Everyday Life

    Author: Dr Mark Epstein
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    Continuing his work at the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, Mark Epstein analyses the transformational potential of trauma as an indivisible part of life that…… Read More »
    Athritis Reversed

    Athritis Reversed

    Author: Dr. Mark Wiley
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Medicine Health
    I'm not sure why I was sent this book, but it is a very good one for anyone suffering from arthritis. It is based on…… Read More »
    Quantumology

    Quantumology

    Author: Kathy Ratcliffe
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This book, based on 17 years research, helps bring together quantum science and its implications for our lives through an understanding and application of quantum…… Read More »
    The Brain Supremacy

    The Brain Supremacy

    Author: Kathleen Taylor
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    The title of this book refers to the promise of neuroscience with its capacity to shape us and our self-understanding; this also offers some human…… Read More »
    It Started with Copernicus

    It Started with Copernicus

    Author: Keith Parsons
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This book is an updated and revised version of a book first published in 2006. It is a good introduction to the philosophy of science,…… Read More »
    The Quantum Age

    The Quantum Age

    Author: Brian Clegg
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    As the title suggests, we are now unequivocally living in the quantum age. Even so, it is astonishing to learn that technology based on quantum…… Read More »
    Why Humans Like To Cry

    Why Humans Like To Cry

    Author: Michael Trimble
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    Subtitled 'tragedy, evolution and the brain' this is a fascinating cultural and neurological study about how humans are unique in shedding tears of sorrow, especially…… Read More »
    Life and Process

    Life and Process

    Author: Spyridon A. Koutroufinis
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    As this volume shows, much of current philosophy of biology is based on the assumptions of classical physics, which look increasingly inadequate in the light…… Read More »
    Mechanisms in World and Mind

    Mechanisms in World and Mind

    Author: Bernd Lindemann
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science Philosophy of Science
    This book by a professor of physiology seeks to justify reductive physicalism as an explanatory hypothesis from the angle of perspective dualism, which distinguishes the…… Read More »
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