The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences

by Katja Guenther and Professor Katja Guenther

How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awareness

Since the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects--humans, infants, animals, and robots--in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691237255
• ISBN13: 9780691237251
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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