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What makes us think? : a neuroscientist and a philosopher argue about ethics, human nature, and the brain
- Title
- What makes us think? : a neuroscientist and a philosopher argue about ethics, human nature, and the brain / Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricœur ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
- Author
- Changeux, Jean-Pierre.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ricœur, Paul.
- Description
- x, 335 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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 an exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the fraught territory between these divergent approaches--and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology to PET scans and from Spinoza to Charles Taylor, this book revolves around a central issue: the relation between the facts (or "what is") of science and the prescriptions (or "what ought to be") of ethics. Changeux and Ricoeur bring an unusual depth of engagement and breadth of knowledge to each other's subject. In doing so, they make two often hostile disciplines speak to one another in surprising and instructive ways--and speak with all the subtlety and passion of conversation at its best.--From publisher description.
- Uniform Title
- Ce qui nous fait penser. English
- Alternative Title
- Ce qui nous fait penser.
- Subject
- Changeux, Jean-Pierre > Interviews
- Ricœur, Paul > Interviews
- Changeux, Jean-Pierre
- Ricœur, Paul
- Ricoeur, Paul > Interviews
- Ethics
- Neuropsychology
- Psychology and philosophy
- Neuroscientists > France > Interviews
- Philosophers > France > Interviews
- Conscience
- Medical ethics
- Medicine > Philosophy
- Brain
- Science > Moral and ethical aspects
- Neuropsychology > ethics
- Conscience
- Ethics, Medical
- Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
- Morals
- Philosophy, Medical
- Ethics
- Neuropsychology
- Brain
- ethics (philosophy)
- brains
- Science > Moral and ethical aspects
- Medicine > Philosophy
- Medical ethics
- Neuroscientists
- Philosophers
- Psychology and philosophy
- Denken
- Ethik
- Leib-Seele-Problem
- Neurologie
- Philosophie
- Neuropsychologie
- Gehirn
- Ethiek
- Neuropsychologie
- Menselijke natuur
- Hersenen
- Ethik
- Denken
- Gehirn
- France
- Genre/Form
- Interview
- interviews.
- Interviews
- Interviews.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
- Contents
- A necessary encounter -- Body and mind: in search of a common discourse -- The neuronal model and the test of experience -- Consciousness of oneself and of others -- The origins of morality -- Desire and norms -- Ethical universality and cultural conflict.
- ISBN
- 0691009406
- 9780691009407
- 0691092850
- 9780691092850
- LCCN
- 00024827
- OCLC
- ocm43487357
- 43487357
- SCSB-1134440
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library