Skeptic's Guide to the Mind What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us about Ourselves

Name: Skeptic's Guide to the Mind What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us about Ourselves
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ISBN: 9781250001856

ISBN-10: 1250001854

ISBN-13: 9781250001856

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert A. Burton

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A critical look at cutting edge and key assumptions in cognitive science that offers a new way of exploring how our brains generate thoughtWhat if what we consider to be reason-based, deliberative judgment is really the product of involuntary mental sensations? In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, Dr. Robert Burton takes a close look at the key false assumptions that permeate the field of cognitive science and offers a new way of exploring how our brains generate thought. The essential paradox that drives this cutting-edge theory is that the same mechanisms that prevent understanding the mind also generate a sense that we can attain such understanding. In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, Burton…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/23/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



The Shape of Your Mind



Agency, Will, and Intention



Causation



Sensational Reason



Logic's Reason



Metacognition



On the Level



Talking in Tongues



Under the Big Top



Consciousness Unexplained



Anatomy of a Thought



Moral Character-Fact or Fiction?



Tell Me a Story


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index