De La Mettrie's Ghost: The Story of Decisions
(Sprache: Englisch)
"This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman drama and beyond, it is a compelling hunt for the nature of free will.Psychiatrist Chris Nunn elegantly...
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"This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman drama and beyond, it is a compelling hunt for the nature of free will.Psychiatrist Chris Nunn elegantly explores the revolutions in medicine, genetics, bioethics and neuroscience spurred by Julien de la Mettrie's 300-year-old tract "Man the Machine". He finds that though formerly fruitful, this mechanistic view of human experience has now brought neuroscientists and philosophers to an impasse. He therefore proposes a powerful replacement metaphor for the workings of the human brain - 'man the story' - and demonstrates how this original approach could reconcile the results of cutting-edge brain-imaging with our intuitive understanding of decision making, responsibility and determinism.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „De La Mettrie's Ghost: The Story of Decisions “
Back to basics; Memory; Free Will and Free Won't; Illusions of Willing; Susan's Tale, Part 1; Objects in Mind; More Cognitive Objects; Weariness; Victorian and Modern; Good Ideas; Susan's Tale, Part 2; Stories and Their People; Of Laws, Physics and Stories; Epilogue; On Being a Story
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chris Nunn
- 2005, 228 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 20,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1403994951
- ISBN-13: 9781403994950
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Englisch
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