What Makes Us Think: A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue About Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain - Couverture rigide

Changeux, Jean-Pierre; Ricoeur, Paul

 
9780691009407: What Makes Us Think: A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue About Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain
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ISBN 10 : 0691009406 ISBN 13 : 9780691009407
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 study explores the vexed territory between these divergent approaches - and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology to PET scans and from Spinoza to Charles Taylor, "What Makes Us Think?" revolves around a central issue: the relation between the facts (or "what is") of science and the prescriptions (or "what ought to be") of ethics. Changeux and Ricoeur ask: will neuroscientific knowledge influence our moral conduct? Is a naturally based ethics possible? Pursuing these questions, they attack key topics at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience: What are the relations between brain states and psychological experience? Between language and truth? Memory and culture? Behaviour and action? What is mental representation? How does a sign relate to what it signifies? How might subjective experience be constructed rather than discovered? In asking these

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À propos de l?auteur

Jean-Pierre Changeux, Professor of Neurobiology at the College de France, is the author of Neuronal Man and, with Alain Connes, Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics (both Princeton). Paul Ricoeur is a hermeneutic philosopher and the author of many books, including Time and Narrative.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691009406
ISBN 13 
9780691009407
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0691092850 ISBN 13 :  9780691092850
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2002
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