Books by Nicholas Humphrey and Complete Book Reviews

Nicholas Humphrey, Author Belknap Press $19.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-674-02179-2
In this extended answer to the question, ""Can one's consciousness survive after one dies?""-asked by philosopher Thomas Reid in 1775 and Joe King, a disabled country singer, in 2003-Humphrey concedes he is working to ""develop a concept of...
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Nicholas Humphrey, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68644-4
In a highly stimulating, unorthodox inquiry that cuts across many disciplines, experimental psychologist Humphrey argues that raw sensation, not thought, is the central fact of consciousness. Furthermore, he claims, mental activities other than the...
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Nicholas Humphrey, Princeton Univ., $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-691-13862-6
Humphrey (Seeing Red), the psychologist who discovered blind sight, combines the latest research on neurology and psychology with age-old philosophical questions about the nature of perception and sensation. In answer to the quandary of how human...
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