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The Inner Eye - Couverture souple

Humphrey, Nicholas

 
9780099225119: The Inner Eye
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0099225115 ISBN 13 : 9780099225119
Editeur : Vintage, 1993

Synopsis

Are human beings the only conscious animals on earth? Where does consciousness come from? What is it? Where is it taking us? In 1971 Nicholas Humphrey, a theoretical psychologist, spent three weeks at Dian Fossey's gorilla research centre in Rwanda. It was there amongst the mountain gorillas that he began to focus on the philosophical and scientific puzzle that has fascinated him ever since - the problem of how a man or animal can know what it is like to be itself. This book describes where his original speculations led. The author is also a writer and documentary film-maker who won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize in 1986.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Where does consciousness come from? What is it? Where is it taking us? In 1971 Nicholas Humphrey spent three months at Dian Fossey's gorilla research centre in Rwanda. It was there, among the mountain gorillas that he began to focus on the philosphical and scientific puzzle that has fascinated him ever since: the problem of how a human being or animal can know what it is like to be itself. The Inner Eye describes where these original speculations led: to Humphrey's now celebrated theories of the 'social function of intellect' and of human beings as natural born 'mind-readers'. Easy to read, adorned with Mel Calman's brilliant illustrations, passionately argued, yet never less than scientifically profound, this book remains the best introduction to new thinking about 'theory of mind' and its implication for human social life.

Biographie de l'auteur

Nicholas Humphrey is Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York, and also Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. His books include Consciousness Regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind (OUP, 1983), and A History of the Mind: Soul Searching (Chatto & Windus, 1995), and The Mind Made Flesh (OUP, 2001).

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Éditeur
Vintage
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0099225115
ISBN 13 
9780099225119
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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