brain figures de popper karl john eccles (4 résultats)

Hardcover with dust jacket. Etat : Sehr gut. XVI, 597 S. : 66 Ill. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. / The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. -- Contents -- PART I by Karl R. Popper -- Chapter P1 Materialism Transcends Itself -- 1. Kant's Argument -- 2. Men and Machines -- 3. Materialism Transcends Itself -- 4. Remarks on the Term "Real" -- 5. Materialism, Biology, and Mind -- 6. Organic Evolution -- 7. Nothing New Under the Sun. Reductionism and "Downward Causation" -- 8. Emergence and its Critics -- 9. Indeterminism; the Interaction of Levels of Emergence -- Chapter P2 The Worlds 1, 2 and 3 -- 10. Interaction; The Worlds 1, 2 and 3 -- 11. The Reality of World 3 -- 12. Unembodied World 3 Objects -- 13. Grasping a World 3 Object -- 14. The Reality of Unembodied World 3 Objects -- 15. World 3 and the Mind-Body Problem -- Chapter P3 Materialism Criticized -- 16. Four Materialist or Physicalist Positions -- 17. Materialism and the Autonomous World 3 -- 18. Radical Materialism or Radical Behaviourism -- 19. Panpsychism -- 20. Epiphenomenalism -- 21. A Revised Form of J. B. S. Haldane's Refutation of Materialism -- 22. The So-called Identity Theory -- 23. Does the Identity Theory Escape the Fate of Epiphenomenalism? -- 24. A Critical Note on Parallelism. The Identity Theory as a Form of Paralle- lism -- 25. Additional Remarks on Some Recent Materialist Theories -- 26. The New Promissory Materialism -- 27. Results and Conclusion -- Chapter P4 Some Remarks on the Self -- 28. Introduction -- 29. Selves -- 30. The Ghost in the Machine -- 31. Learning to be a Self -- 32. Individuation -- 33. Self-Identity: The Self and Its Brain -- 34. The Biological Approach to Human Knowledge and Intelligence -- 35. Consciousness and Perception -- 36. The Biological Function of Conscious and Intelligent Activity -- 37. The Integrative Function of Consciousness -- 38. The Continuity of the Self -- 39. Learning from Experience: The Natural Selection of Theories -- 40. Criticism of the Theory of Unconditioned and Conditioned Reflexes -- 41. Kinds of Memory -- 42. The Self Anchored in World 3 -- Chapter P5 Historical Comments on the Mind-Body Problem -- 43. The History of Our Picture of the Universe -- 44. A Problem to be Solved by What Follows -- 45. The Prehistoric Discovery of the Self and of World 2 -- 46. The Mind-Body Problem in Greek Philosophy -- 47. Conjectural versus Ultimate Explanation -- 48. Descartes: A Shift in the Mind-Body Problem -- 49. From Interactionism to Parallelism: The Occasionalists and Spinoza -- 50. Leibniz's Theory of Mind and Matter: From Parallelism to Identity -- 51. Newton, Boscovich, Maxwell: The End of Ultimate Explanation -- 52. The Association of Ideas as an Ultimate Explanation -- 53. Neutral Monism -- 54. The Identity Theory After Leibniz: From Kant to Feigl -- 55. Linguistic Parallelism -- 56. A Final Look at Materialism -- Chapter P6 Summary -- Bibliography to Part I -- PART II by John C. Eccles -- Chapter E1 The Cerebral Cortex -- 1. Résumé -- 2. Anatomical Introduction -- 3. The Columnar Arrangement and the Modular Concept of the Cerebral Cortex -- 4. Modular Interaction -- 4.1 Patterns of Module Action and Interaction -- 5. The Connectivities of Cortical Areas -- 6. Connectivities of the Limbic System -- Chapter E2 Conscious Perception -- 7. Résumé -- 8. Introduction -- 9. Cutaneous Perception (Somaethesis) -- 9.1 Pathways to Primary Sensory Area in Cortex -- 9.2 Temporal Analysis of Cutaneous Perception -- 9.3 Secondary and Tertiary Sensory Areas -- 10. Visual Perception -- 10.1 Retina to Primary Visual Area in Cortex -- 10.2 Stages in Reconstitution of the Visual Image -- 10.3 The Perceived Visual Image -- 11. Auditory Perception -- 12. Olfactory Perception -- 13. Emotional Colouring of Conscious Perceptions -- 14. Epilogue -- Chapter E3 Voluntary Movement -- 15. Résumé -- 16. Introduction -- 17. The Motor Unit -- 18. The Motor Cortex -- 19. Voluntary Movement -- 20. The Cerebellar Controls of Voluntary Movement -- 20.1 The Closed Loop via the Pars Intermedia of the Cerebellum -- 20.2 The Open-Loop System via the Cerebellar Hemispheres -- 21. The Open-Loop Circuits via the Basal Ganglia -- 22. Synthesis of the Various Neuronal Mechanisms Concerned in the Control of Voluntary Movement -- 23. General Discussion -- Chapter E4 The Language Centres of the Human Brain -- 24. Résumé -- 25. Introduction -- 26. Aphasia -- 27. Experiments on Exposed Brains -- 28. Intracarotid Injections of Sodium Amytal -- 29. The Dichotic Listening Test -- 30. The Self-Conscious Mind and Speech -- 31. Anatomical Substrates of Speech Mechanisms -- 32. The Acquisition of Language -- Chapter E5 Global Lesions of the Human Cerebrum -- 33. Résumé -- 34. Introduction -- 35. Investigations on the Human Brain After Commissural Section- -- Commissurotomy 36. Discussion on Commissurotomy -- 37. Investigations on the Human Cerebrum after Gross Lesions and Hemispherectomy -- 38. Discussion on Hemispherectomy -- 39. Summary of Linguistic Abilities Disclosed by Global Lesions -- Chapter E6 Circumscribed Cerebral Lesions -- 40. Résumé -- 41. Introduction -- 42. Temporal Lobe Lesions -- 43. Parietal Lobe Lesions -- 44. Occipital Lobe Lesions -- 45. Frontal Lobe Lesions -- 46. The Limbic System -- 47. The Dominant and Minor Hemispheres -- Chapter E7 The Self-Conscious Mind and the Brain -- 48. Résumé -- 49. Introduction -- 50. Self-Conscious Mind and the Brain -- 51. Hypothesis of Interaction of Self-Conscious Mind and the Liaison Brain -- 52. The Hypothesis of Cortical Modules and the Self-Conscious Mind -- 53. Sleep, Dreams and Various Forms of Unconsciousness -- 54. Plasticity of "Open" Modules -- 55. Summary -- Chapter E8 Conscious Memory: The Cerebral Processes Concerned in Storage and Retrieval -- 56. Résumé -- 57. Introduction -- 58. Structural and Functional Changes Possibly Related to Memory -- 59. The So-called Growth Theory of Learning -- 60. The Role of the Self-Conscious Min.

Springer International, Berlin 1977. XVI, 597, (3) pp. Hardcover with d/w. Wrapper slightly chipped. An Argument fo Interactionism.

Original-Pappband. Etat : Sehr gut. gr8 Original-Pappband en Medizin XVI pp., 597 pp.

N.Y., Berlin, London, Springer, (1977). Orig. boards with dustjacket. XVI,597 pp. First edition.