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Mistaken Identity

The Mind-Brain Problem Reconsidered

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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This "unauthorized biography" of cognitive neuroscience unveils hidden errors in current mind-body accounts and sheds new light on basic scientific issues.Neuroscientist Leslie Brothers argues that our understanding of the brain is determined by popular beliefs about the mind. She critiques "neuroism," which explains the mind in terms of individual brains, and shows that widely held assumptions about the promise of contemporary brain research are largely false. This book opens up new territory as it uncovers the real connections among human biology, human sociality, and the mind.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-11-01
Mått150 x 228 x 8 mm
Vikt181 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society
Antal sidor112
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791451885

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"Mistaken Identity is a bold, incisive, witty, provocative examination of one of the most pressing philosophical and scientific problems of our time, and could become a significant new rallying point in the consciousness wars." — John Horgan, author of The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation"This book provides a subtle and very important criticism of many ordinary ways of understanding the relation of mind and brain." — Nancey Murphy, coeditor of Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action