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

by Paul Ricœur and Jean-Pierre Changeux

Book Overview

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 territory between these divergent approaches--and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691009406
• ISBN13: 9780691009407
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"