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

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Changeux, Jean-Pierre
Autres auteurs: Ricœur, Paul
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Francés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.