Touching a Nerve The Self As Brain

Name: Touching a Nerve The Self As Brain
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ISBN: 9780393058321

ISBN-10: 0393058328

ISBN-13: 9780393058321

Edition: 2013

Authors: Patricia Churchland

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What happens when we accept that everything we feel, think, and experience stems not from an immaterial soul but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? That is the question at the heart of this new book by Patricia Churchland, one of the pioneers of neurophilosophy. In a narrative detailing her own personal and professional transformation, Churchland explains what the latest brain research into consciousness, sensory experience, memory, and free will can tell us about enduring philosophical and ethical questions: What is the self? How are our personalities created? What determines our decisions and behaviors? These questions have real-world repercussions—for example, whether…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.60" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Me, Myself, and My Brain



Soul Searching



My Heavens



The Brains Behind Morality



Aggression and Sex



Such a Lovely War



Free Will, Habits, and Self-Control



Hidden Cognition



The Conscious Life Examined


Epilogue: Balancing Act


Notes


Index