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 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.