The Physiology of Truth : Neuroscience and Human Knowledge / Jean-Pierre Changeux.
2009
RC343.C43813 2009
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Title
The Physiology of Truth : Neuroscience and Human Knowledge / Jean-Pierre Changeux.
ISBN
9780674029415
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (332 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674029415 doi
Call Number
RC343.C43813 2009
Alternate Call Number
CC 4400
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8
Summary
"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 a coherent and universal theory of human rights. On this view, belief in objective knowledge is not a mere ideological slogan or a naïve confusion; it is a characteristic feature of human cognition throughout evolution, and the scientific method its most sophisticated embodiment. Seeking to reconcile science and humanism, Changeux holds that the capacity to recognize truths that are independent of subjective personal experience constitutes the foundation of a human civil society."
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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text file PDF
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
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DeBevoise, Malcolm, contributor.
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Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. Thinking Matter
2. The Acquisition of Knowledge
3. States of Consciousness
4. Knowledge and Social Life
5. From Genes to Brain
6. Neuronal Epigenesis and Cultural Evolution
7. Scientific Research and the Search for Truth
8. The Humanity of Science
Conclusion
Notes
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction
1. Thinking Matter
2. The Acquisition of Knowledge
3. States of Consciousness
4. Knowledge and Social Life
5. From Genes to Brain
6. Neuronal Epigenesis and Cultural Evolution
7. Scientific Research and the Search for Truth
8. The Humanity of Science
Conclusion
Notes
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
Index