What Makes Us Think? : : A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain /

What Makes Us Think? : : A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain / / Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Pierre Changeux.

Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? In a remarkable exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the vexed terr...

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VerfasserIn:
Changeux, Jean-Pierre,
Ricoeur, Paul,
TeilnehmendeR:
DeBevoise, M. B.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2000
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 16 halftones 16 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator's Note
  • Prelude
  • 1. A Necessary Encounter
  • Knowledge and Wisdom
  • Knowledge of the Brain and Self-Knowledge
  • The Biological and the Normative
  • 2. Body and Mind: In Search of a Common Discourse
  • The Cartesian Ambiguity
  • The Contribution of the Neurosciences
  • Toward a Third Kind of Discourse?
  • 3. The Neuronal Model and the Test of Experience
  • The Simple and the Complex: Questions of Method
  • The Human Brain: Complexity, Hierarchy, Spontaneity
  • Mental Objects: Chimera or Link?
  • Is a Neuronal Theory of Knowledge Possible?
  • Understanding Better by Explaining More
  • 4. Consciousness of Oneself and of Others
  • Conscious Space
  • The Question of Memory
  • Comprehension of Oneself and of Others
  • Mind or Matter?
  • 5. The Origins of Morality
  • Darwinian Evolution and Moral Norms
  • Darwinian Evolution and Moral Norms
  • From Biological History to Cultural History: Valuing the Individual
  • 6. Desire and Norms
  • Natural Dispositions to Ethical Systems
  • Natural Dispositions to Ethical Systems
  • Passage to the Norm
  • 7. Ethical Universality and Cultural Conflict
  • The Natural Foundations of an Ethics of Debate
  • Religion and Violence
  • Paths of Tolerance
  • The Scandal of Evil
  • Toward an Ethics of Deliberation: The Example of Advisory Committees on Bioethics
  • Art as Peacemaker
  • Fugue
  • Notes
  • Index

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