Mind Readings: An Anthology for Writers Book

Introduction: Mind Readings and College Writing

1. Reading the Senses: From Sight to Insight
Ian Frazer, Take the F
Barry Lopez, A Passage of the Hands
Diane Ackerman, Taste: The Social Sense
Mark Slouka, Listening for Silence
Constance Classen, David Howes, and Anthony Synott, The Olfactory Revolution
K.C. Cole, Seeing Things
Georgina Kleege, The Mind's Eye
Bill McKibben, Television and the Twilight of the Senses
Walker Percy, The Loss of the Creature

2. Reading Memory: Rebuilding the Past
Scott Russell Sanders, The Inheritance of Tools
Loren Eiseley, The Brown Wasps
Daniel L. Schacter, Building Memories: Encoding and Retrieving the Past and the Present
Patricia Hampl, Memory and Imagination
Susan Engel, Then and Now: Creating a Self Through the Past
Eviatar Zerubavel, Social Memories
Maxine Hong Kingston, Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
bell hooks, Columbus: Gone but Not Forgotten

3. Reading The Self: Ghosts in the Machine?
Robert Sapolsky, Ego Boundaries, or the Fit of My Father's Shirt
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, What Is The Self?
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Arnold M. Ludwig, Living Backwards
Ruben Martinez and Claudia Chiawei O'Hearn, Technicolor
Roy F. Baumeister, The Self and Society: Changes, Problems, and Opportunities
Mary Catherine Bateson, A Mutable Self
Philip Kitcher, Whose Self Is It Anyway?
Jean Bethke Elshtain, To Clone or Not to Clone

4. Reading Other Minds: Inside the Black Box
Roger C. Schank, Understanding Other People's Stories
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
Martha C. Nussbaum, The Narrative Imagination
Edward T. Hall, Hidden Culture
Mick Fadullo, Mrs. Cassadore
Jean Hollander, Cops and Writers
Deborah Blum, Heart to Heart: Sex Differences in Emotion
Andrew Sullivan, What's So Bad about Hate?
James Garbarino, Rejected and Neglected, Ashamed and Depressed
Mark Dery, Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns

5. Reading Animal Minds: Objects or Equals?
John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes, Talking to the Owls and Butterflies
John Berger, Why Look at Animals?
Faith McNulty, Mouse
Charles Siebert, The Artifice of the Natural
Frans de Waal, The Whole Animal
Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, Murder in a Zoo
Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon, The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas
Peter Singer, Equality for Animals?
Paul Shepard, Rights and Kindness: A Can of Worms

6. Reading Cyber Minds: The Internet to Artificial Intelligence
Ellen Ullman, Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life
Guillermo Gomez-Pena, The Virtual Barrio
Sherry Turkle, Who Am We?
Claudia Springer, Muscular Circuitry
William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic
Douglas R. Hofstadter, The Turing Test: A Coffeehouse Conversation
Maureen Caudill, Redefining the Measure of Mankind
Hans Moravec, Grandfather Clause
Margaret Wertheim, Cyber Soul-Space