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Mind and body -- Early works to 1800

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• Mind and body
• Philosophical anthropology -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Mind and body -- Early works to 1850

• The Interaction of the Soul and the Body (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Hartley edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
  • Whitehead edition: HTML at eswedenborg.com
• Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence From Animal Food; His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and His Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; With an Appendix Explaining the Allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses (London: Printed for T. Rodd, 1823), by Porphyry, trans. by Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man a Machine, by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey (HTML with notes at bactra.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies: Contemplative Writing Pedagogy (c2015), by Christy I. Wenger (PDF and Epub at Colorado State)
• The Clever Body (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2006), by Gabor Csepregi (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Whole Earth Inner Space (electronic edition, 2000), by Christopher Carter Humphrey (HTML at Wayback Machine; text may be obscured by domain-squatter's ad)
• Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by David Ray Griffin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Matter and Memory (London: G. Allen and Unwin; New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Henri Bergson, trans. by Nancy Margaret Paul and M. E. Dowson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Body and Mind: An Inquiry into Their Connection and Mutual Influence, Specially in Reference to Mental Disorders (enlarged and revised edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Henry Maudsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mind as a Cause and Cure of Disease, Presented From a Medical, Scientific and Religious Point of View (Chicago: The author, 1914), by Eli Beers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Vom Schaltwerk der Gedanken: Neue Einsichten und Betrachtungen über die Seele (in German; Berlin: S. Fischer, c1916), by Carl Ludwig Schleich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Skin Deep: A Mind/Body Program for Healthy Skin (revised and expanded edition, 1992), by Ted A. Grossbart and Carl Sherman (PDF at grossbart.com)
• The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1933), by Ralph Waldo Trine (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit (New York: Dodge Pub. Co., c1917), by Ralph Waldo Trine (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Influence of Joy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1916), by George Van Ness Dearborn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of Truth, by John Abercrombie (page images at MOA)
• The Master Mind, by Theron Q. Dumont (HTML with commentary at psitek.net)
• The Nature of Mind and Human Automatism (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1885), by Morton Prince (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life: Being Several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-Comical, Poetical, Romanicical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral (second edition; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1671), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Physiology of Faith and Fear: or, The Mind in Health and Disease (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by William S. Sadler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Principles of Mental Physiology: With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions (London: H. S. King and Co., 1875), by William Benjamin Carpenter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rational Living: Some Practical Inferences from Modern Psychology (New York and London: Macmillan, 1912), by Henry Churchill King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Foundations of Personality, by Abraham Myerson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lectures and Essays (third edition, two volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1901), by William Kingdon Clifford, ed. by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: PDF at archive.org
• The Mysterious Matter of Mind, by Arthur C. Custance and Lee Edward Travis (HTML at custance.org)
• The Subject of Consciousness, by Cedric Oliver Evans (HTML at mentalstates.net)

• Make Your Mind an Ocean: Aspects of Buddhist Psychology, by Thubten Yeshe, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)

• The Epic of Consciousness, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML at Divine Life Society)
• From Science to God: The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light, by Peter Russell (HTML with commentary at peterrussell.com)

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Human and Machine Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by David Gamez (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Organic Creativity and the Physics Within (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), by Mea M. M. Lowcre, ed. by Johan Hoorn (Javascript-dependent PDF at benjamins.com)
• Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by David Ray Griffin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (1987), by Stuart R. Hameroff (HTML and PDF with commentary at quantumconsciousness.org)
• The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (based on the 1901 edition), ed. by Richard Maurice Bucke (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (Philadelphia: Innes and Sons, 1905), ed. by Richard Maurice Bucke
  • PDF at djm.cc
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Science of Consciousness, by Dr. Jagadishomritunjay (frame-dependent HTML at archive.org)
• States of Consciousness, by Charles T. Tart (HTML at druglibrary.org)
• Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology (second edition, 1915), by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Frank Lubecki Pogson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tertium Organum, The Third Canon of Thought: A Key to the Enigmas of the World (second American edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Fayette Bragdon (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Metaphysics: or, The Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1860), by Henry Longueville Mansel (page images at Google)
• The Phenomenology of Mind (2 volumes; London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by J. B. Baillie
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Subject of Consciousness, by Cedric Oliver Evans (HTML at mentalstates.net)
• The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kay Young (PDF at Ohio State)

• Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kay Young (PDF at Ohio State)

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