What makes us think? a neuroscientist and a philosopher argue about ethics, human nature, and the brain /
Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? In an exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the fraught territory be...
| Uniform Title: | Ce qui nous fait penser. English |
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| Main Author: | Changeux, Jean-Pierre. |
| Other Authors: | Ricœur, Paul. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2000]
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| Physical Description: |
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Sample text Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: |
Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? In an exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the fraught territory between these divergent approaches--and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology to PET scans and from Spinoza to Charles Taylor, this book revolves around a central issue: the relation between the facts (or "what is") of science and the prescriptions (or "what ought to be") of ethics. Changeux and Ricoeur bring an unusual depth of engagement and breadth of knowledge to each other's subject. In doing so, they make two often hostile disciplines speak to one another in surprising and instructive ways--and speak with all the subtlety and passion of conversation at its best.--From publisher description. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index. A necessary encounter -- Body and mind: in search of a common discourse -- The neuronal model and the test of experience -- Consciousness of oneself and of others -- The origins of morality -- Desire and norms -- Ethical universality and cultural conflict. Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? In an exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the fraught territory between these divergent approaches--and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology to PET scans and from Spinoza to Charles Taylor, this book revolves around a central issue: the relation between the facts (or "what is") of science and the prescriptions (or "what ought to be") of ethics. Changeux and Ricoeur bring an unusual depth of engagement and breadth of knowledge to each other's subject. In doing so, they make two often hostile disciplines speak to one another in surprising and instructive ways--and speak with all the subtlety and passion of conversation at its best.--From publisher description. |
| Physical Description: |
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0691009406 9780691009407 0691092850 9780691092850 |