Beyond a World Divided: Human Values in the Brain-Mind Science of Roger Sperry - Couverture souple

Stover, David

 
9780595160372: Beyond a World Divided: Human Values in the Brain-Mind Science of Roger Sperry
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ISBN 10 : 0595160379 ISBN 13 : 9780595160372
Editeur : iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

Thinkers as diverse as C.P. Snow, J. Bronowski, and Carl Sagan have described the rift between the two cultures of science and the humanities as the greatest barrier to solving the many problems threatening todays world. During the last two decades of his life, Nobel laureate Roger W. Sperry best known for his pioneering split-brain studies that highlighted the differing aptitudes of the two hemispheres of the human brain turned his energies to this dilemma. Sperrys ideas about consciousness challenged the behaviorist orthodoxy that prevailed in psychology in the 1950s and 60s, and provided a way of understanding the relationship between brain and mind that not only more accurately reflected reality, but also promised a reconciliation between the conflicting claims of hard-edged objective fact and the realm of human emotion and subjective experience. Beyond A World Divided chronicles the neuroscientists groundbreaking research, his effo

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Thinkers as diverse as C.P. Snow, J. Bronowski, and Carl Sagan have described the rift between the two cultures of science and the humanities as the greatest barrier to solving the many problems threatening todays world. During the last two decades of his life, Nobel laureate Roger W. Sperry best known for his pioneering split-brain studies that highlighted the differing aptitudes of the two hemispheres of the human brain turned his energies to this dilemma. Sperrys ideas about consciousness challenged the behaviorist orthodoxy that prevailed in psychology in the 1950s and 60s, and provided a way of understanding the relationship between brain and mind that not only more accurately reflected reality, but also promised a reconciliation between the conflicting claims of hard-edged objective fact and the realm of human emotion and subjective experience. Beyond A World Divided chronicles the neuroscientists groundbreaking research, his effo

Biographie de l'auteur

An independent scholar and publisher of the journal, Humankind Advancing, Erika Erdmann worked as Roger Sperrys research associate. David Stover, editor-in-chief at Canadas largest textbook publisher, holds graduate degrees in history and journalism. Their other books include the recent A Mind for Tomorrow: Facts, Values, and the Future (Praeger, 2000).

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595160379
ISBN 13 
9780595160372
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780877735908: Beyond a World Divided: Human Values in the Brain-Mind Science of Roger Sperry/302013

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0877735905 ISBN 13 :  9780877735908
Editeur : Shambhala Publications Inc, 1991
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