What Makes Us Think? : A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain /

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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 a remarkable exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the vexed terr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Changeux, Jean-Pierre (Autor), Ricoeur, Paul (Autor)
Otros Autores: DeBevoise, M. B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.
Philosophers > France > Interviews.
Neuroscientists > France > Interviews.
Neuropsychology.
Ethics.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator's Note
  • Prelude
  • 1. A Necessary Encounter
  • Knowledge and Wisdom
  • Knowledge of the Brain and Self-Knowledge
  • The Biological and the Normative
  • 2. Body and Mind: In Search of a Common Discourse
  • The Cartesian Ambiguity
  • The Contribution of the Neurosciences
  • Toward a Third Kind of Discourse?
  • 3. The Neuronal Model and the Test of Experience
  • The Simple and the Complex: Questions of Method
  • The Human Brain: Complexity, Hierarchy, Spontaneity
  • Mental Objects: Chimera or Link?
  • Is a Neuronal Theory of Knowledge Possible?
  • Understanding Better by Explaining More
  • 4. Consciousness of Oneself and of Others
  • Conscious Space
  • The Question of Memory
  • Comprehension of Oneself and of Others
  • Mind or Matter?
  • 5. The Origins of Morality
  • Darwinian Evolution and Moral Norms
  • Darwinian Evolution and Moral Norms
  • From Biological History to Cultural History: Valuing the Individual
  • 6. Desire and Norms
  • Natural Dispositions to Ethical Systems
  • Natural Dispositions to Ethical Systems
  • Passage to the Norm
  • 7. Ethical Universality and Cultural Conflict
  • The Natural Foundations of an Ethics of Debate
  • Religion and Violence
  • Paths of Tolerance
  • The Scandal of Evil
  • Toward an Ethics of Deliberation: The Example of Advisory Committees on Bioethics
  • Art as Peacemaker
  • Fugue
  • Notes
  • Index

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