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  • ‘I think, therefore I am’,
    see Cogito
  • id
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • identity disorders
    1
  • Insel, Thomas
    1
  • ‘intelligent design’
    1
    ,
    2
  • International Whaling Commission
    1
  • James, William
    1
  • Jansson, Tove
    1
  • Jerom (chimp)
    1
  • Johanson, Donald Carl
    1
  • Jürgen
    1
  • justice
    1
    ;
    see also
    morality
  • Kandel (née Kris), Anna
    1
  • Kandel, Eric
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • Nobel Prize awarded to
      1
  • Kant, Immanuel
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
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    10
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    11
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    12
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    ,
    14
    ,
    15
    ,
    16
    ,
    17
    ,
    18
    ,
    19
    ,
    20
    ,
    21
    • contempt for feelings by
      1
    • on embryos and infanticide
      1
    • euthanasia and
      1
    • on freedom
      1
    • happiness and
      1
    • language neglected by
      1
  • Kanzi (bonobo)
    1
  • Katz, Steve
    1
  • Kelvin, Lord
    1
  • Kepler, Johannes
    1
  • Keshen, Richard
    1
  • Kierkegaard, Søren
    1
  • Kirk, Capt. James
    1
    ,
    2
  • Knutzen, Martin
    1
  • Koko (gorilla)
    1
    ,
    2
  • Kommune
    1
    2
  • Königsberg
    1
  • Kris, Anna,
    see
    Kandel
  • Kristallnacht
    1
  • Kubrick, Stanley
    1
  • Lamezon, Adrian von
    1
  • Lanfranc
    1
    ,
    2
  • Langleben, Daniel
    1
  • language
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • in apes
      1
    • innate sense of
      1
      ,
      2
    • moral statements in
      1
    • neglected area of philosophy
      1
    • philosophy a ‘critique’ of
      1
    • see also
      brain: Broca’s area; linguistics; brain: Wernicke’s area
  • Layard, Richard
    1
  • Leakey, Louis
    1
  • Leakey, Richard
    1
  • left and right perception
    1
  • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
    1
  • Lem, Stanislaw
    1
  • Lenin, Vladimir
    1
  • Lennon, John
    1
    ,
    2
  • Lennon, Julian
    1
  • Libet, Benjamin
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • experiments of
      1
  • Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
    1
  • linguistics
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ;
    see also
    language
  • Linnaeus, Carl
    1
  • Locke, John
    1
    ,
    2
  • Loewi, Otto
    1
  • loneliness research
    1
  • love
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • Spock and,
      see
      Spock
  • Love as Passion
    (Luhmann)
    1
  • Lovelock, James
    1
  • Lucy (chimp)
    1
  • ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’
    1
    ,
    2
  • Luhmann, Niklas
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • Macaca nemestrina
    1
  • McCartney, Paul
    1
  • McCoy, Dr Leonard
    1
  • Mach, Ernst
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    • feelings and
      1
  • MacLean, Paul
    1
  • magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • magnetoencephalography (MEG)
    1
  • Mahler, Gustav
    1
  • Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The
    (Sacks)
    1
  • Man Without Qualities, The
    (Musil)
    1
  • Mandarins, The
    (Beauvoir)
    1
  • Mann, Thomas
    1
  • Marc, Franz
    1
  • Marcuse, Ludwig
    1
    ,
    2
  • Marx, Karl
    1
    ,
    2
  • materialism
    1
  • Matrix, The
    1
  • Maturana, Humberto
    1
    ,
    2
  • Maurice of Nassau
    1
  • Maximilian of Bavaria, Duke
    1
  • meaning
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
  • Meaning of Life, The
    1
  • memory
    1
    ,
    2
    • declarative and nondeclarative
      1
      ,
      2
    • important/unimportant distinction made by
      1
    • short-term and long-term
      1
      ,
      2
  • Mercure de France
    1
  • Metaphysics of Morals
    (Kant)
    1
  • Metzinger, Thomas
    1
  • Meynert, Theodor
    1
    ,
    2
  • MicroSort
    1
    ,
    2
  • Mikhail, John
    1
  • Mill, John Stuart
    1
    ,
    2
  • mind
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
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    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    • Freud’s tripartite view of,
      see
      psyche
    • Kant’s ‘laws’ concerning
      1
    • subconscious,
      see main entry
    • see also
      brain; consciousness; self
  • Mirabeau, Count
    1
  • mirror neurons
    1
    ,
    2
  • monism
    1
  • morality and ethics
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • innateness of
    1
    ,
    2
  • Kant’s ‘template’ for
    1
  • trolley problem concerning
    1
    ,
    2
  • types and degrees of
    1
  • see also
    abortion; animals; cloning;
    • head-and-brain transplants;
    • justice; reproductive medicine;
    • utilitarianism; euthanasia
  • Musil, Robert
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Nagasaki
    1
    ,
    2
  • Nagel, Thomas
    1
  • napalm
    1
  • NASA
    1
  • Natural Theology
    (Paley)
    1
    ,
    2
  • Nazis
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • Neanderthals
    1
  • neurons in
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • neuroprosthetics
    1
    ,
    2
  • neuroscience,
    see
    brain
  • neurotransmitters
    1
  • New Economics Foundation
    1
    ,
    2
  • Newberg, Andrew
    1
  • Newton, Isaac
    1
    • physics of
      1
  • Nicht, Alexander
    1
  • Nicht, Marie-Luise
    1
     
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
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  • Nieuwentijdt, Bernard
    1
  • noradrenaline
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Nozick, Robert
    1
    ,
    2
     
  • O’Donnell, Lucy
    1
    ,
    2
  • Oedipus complex
    1
  • Omicron Ceti III
    1
  • On the Genealogy of Morals
    (Nietzsche)
    1
    ,
    2
  • On the Origin of Species
    (Darwin)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • ontological argument for God,
    see at
    God
  • oxytocin
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Paley, William
    1
    ,
    2
  • Pan troglodytes
    1
  • Pappenheim, Bertha
    1
  • Parkinson’s disease
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Parsons, Talcott
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Patterson, Francine
    1
  • Paul VI, Pope
    1
    ,
    2
  • Peek, Kim
    1
  • Pellegrino, Giuseppe di
    1
  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
    1
  • Persinger, Michael
    1
  • Philosophical Investigations
     (Wittgenstein)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Philosophy of Happiness
    (Marcuse)
    1
  • Philosophy of Money, The
    (Simmel)
    1
  • Philosophy of the Unconscious
    (Hartmann)
    1
  • Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
    1
  • pineal gland
    1
    ,
    2
  • Pius IX, Pope
    1
  • Plato
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Pollack, Seth
    1
  • possessions
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Precht, Oskar
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
    1
    ,
    2
  • Preimplantation Genetic Optimization (PGO)
    1
  • Principles of Mathematics
    (Russell)
    1
  • Principles of Neural Science
    (Kandel)
    1
  • ‘Project for a Scientific Psychology’ (Freud)
    1
  • Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
    (Kant)
    1
  • property
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • psyche
    1
    • Freud’s tripartite view of
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • see also
      mind
  • Psyche
    (Carus)
    1
  • psychoanalysis
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • ‘Psychotherapy and the Single Synapse’ (Kandel)
    1
  • Purcell, Henry
    1

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