Screen LibrarySecond nature：brain science and human knowledge
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven |
| Publication Dates: | c2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 203 p.: ill. ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0300120397 (clothbound : alk. paper) 9780300120394 (clothbound : alk. paper) 9780300125948 0300125941 |
| Index Number: | Q426 |
| CLC: |
Q426 R338.2 |
| Call Number: | R338.2/E217 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-181) and index. 1. The Galilean arc and Darwin's program -- 2. Consciousness, body, and brain -- 3. Selectionism : a prerequisite for consciousness -- 4. From brain activity to consciousness -- 5. Epistemology and its discontents -- 6. A brain-based approach -- 7. Forms of knowledge : the divorce between science and the humanities -- 8. Repairing the rift -- 9. Causation, illusions, and values -- 10. Creativity : the play between specificity and range -- 11. Abnormal states -- 12. Brain-based devices : toward a conscious artifact -- 13. Second nature : the transformation of knowledge. |