[Read download] Astonishing Legends Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy
❀ Patricia S. Churchland ❀
| #621939 in Books | 2002-12-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.13 x8.00l,1.93 | File Name: 026253200X | 438 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Science was okay, philosophy was pretty bad.|By Hank|Not great, but not terrible. Her discussions of free will and dualism contain obvious straw men. The science is interesting, though. However, she makes it seem as though she embraces Hume's views that belief about cause and effect is unwarranted, but she later predicates her critique of dualism and libertarian ism on cause a|||Sound philosophy requires a solid understanding of the nature and origin of mind, which in turn depends on the best neuroscience available. Patricia Churchland, with verve and exactitude, has taken a large step toward establishing that link. (Edward O. Wilso
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...
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