Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

by Alva Noë

Book Overview

Alva No? is one of a new breed--part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist--who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: do away with the two-hundred-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809016486
• ISBN13: 9780809016488
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.2"