L'Homme de V?rit?: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

by Jean-Pierre Changeux

In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is? Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on the cultural history of science, Jean-Pierre Changeux makes a powerful case for the reality of scientific progress and argues that it forms the basis for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674012836
• ISBN13: 9780674012837
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"