Touching a nerve : the self as brain / Patricia S. Churchland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 304 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393058321 (hbk.)
  • 0393058328 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.8 23
LOC classification:
  • QP360 .C485 2013
NLM classification:
  • 2013 H-361
  • WL 103.5
Contents:
Me, myself, and my brain -- Soul searching -- My heavens -- The brains behind morality -- Aggression and sex -- Such a lovely war -- Free will, habits, and self-control -- Hidden cognition -- The conscious life examined -- Balancing act -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? Churchland grounds the philosophy of mind in the essential ingredients of biology. She reflects with humor on how she came to harmonize science and philosophy, the mind and the brain, abstract ideals and daily life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-291) and index.

What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? Churchland grounds the philosophy of mind in the essential ingredients of biology. She reflects with humor on how she came to harmonize science and philosophy, the mind and the brain, abstract ideals and daily life.

Me, myself, and my brain -- Soul searching -- My heavens -- The brains behind morality -- Aggression and sex -- Such a lovely war -- Free will, habits, and self-control -- Hidden cognition -- The conscious life examined -- Balancing act -- Notes -- Index.

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