Brain-Wise
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Take a ride on reality with this book.
Step out of the vortex of mysteria to a place of empirical scientific reality.
This books is, hands-down, the best philosophy I've ever read. It's jam-packed with science, right down to the presynaptic/postsynaptic activity of the neuron. Get an idea of what's really going on in your head, read this book.
Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy by Patricia Smith Churchland
Amazon.ca Book Description
Progress in the neurosciences is profoundly changing our conception of ourselves. Contrary to time-honored intuition, the mind turns out to be a complex of brain functions. And contrary to the wishful thinking of some philosophers, there is no stemming the revolutionary impact that brain research will have on our understanding of how the mind works.
Brain-Wise is the sequel to Patricia Smith Churchland's Neurophilosophy, the book that launched a subfield. In a clear, conversational manner, this book examines old questions about the nature of the mind within the new framework of the brain sciences. What, it asks, is the neurobiological basis of consciousness, the self, and free choice? How does the brain learn about the external world and about its own introspective world? What can neurophilosophy tell us about the basis and significance of religious and moral experiences?
Drawing on results from research at the neuronal, neurochemical, system, and whole-brain levels, the book gives an up-to-date perspective on the state of neurophilosophy--what we know, what we do not know, and where things may go from here.
About the Author (Wikipedia)
Patricia Smith Churchland (born July 16, 1943, was born in Oliver, British Columbia, Canada, which is in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley) is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego since 1984. She is currently chair of the UCSD Philosophy Department, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and an associate of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (Sejnowski Lab) at the Salk Institute. She won a MacArthur prize in 1991. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Oxford (B.Phil.). She taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969-1984. She is the wife of philosopher Paul Churchland.
She was interviewed along with her husband Paul Churchland for the book Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore, 2006. [Another great book]
She attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium on November 2006.
http://beyondbelief2006.org
Google Books Sample
Step out of the vortex of mysteria to a place of empirical scientific reality.
This books is, hands-down, the best philosophy I've ever read. It's jam-packed with science, right down to the presynaptic/postsynaptic activity of the neuron. Get an idea of what's really going on in your head, read this book.
Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy by Patricia Smith Churchland
Amazon.ca Book Description
Progress in the neurosciences is profoundly changing our conception of ourselves. Contrary to time-honored intuition, the mind turns out to be a complex of brain functions. And contrary to the wishful thinking of some philosophers, there is no stemming the revolutionary impact that brain research will have on our understanding of how the mind works.
Brain-Wise is the sequel to Patricia Smith Churchland's Neurophilosophy, the book that launched a subfield. In a clear, conversational manner, this book examines old questions about the nature of the mind within the new framework of the brain sciences. What, it asks, is the neurobiological basis of consciousness, the self, and free choice? How does the brain learn about the external world and about its own introspective world? What can neurophilosophy tell us about the basis and significance of religious and moral experiences?
Drawing on results from research at the neuronal, neurochemical, system, and whole-brain levels, the book gives an up-to-date perspective on the state of neurophilosophy--what we know, what we do not know, and where things may go from here.
About the Author (Wikipedia)
Patricia Smith Churchland (born July 16, 1943, was born in Oliver, British Columbia, Canada, which is in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley) is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego since 1984. She is currently chair of the UCSD Philosophy Department, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and an associate of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (Sejnowski Lab) at the Salk Institute. She won a MacArthur prize in 1991. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Oxford (B.Phil.). She taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969-1984. She is the wife of philosopher Paul Churchland.
She was interviewed along with her husband Paul Churchland for the book Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore, 2006. [Another great book]
She attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium on November 2006.
http://beyondbelief2006.org
Google Books Sample
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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