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The physiology of truth : neuroscience and human knowledge

Title: The physiology of truth : neuroscience and human knowledge / Jean-Pierre Changeux ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
Author: Changeux, Jean-Pierre.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Description

324 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 naive confusion; it is a characteristic feature of human cognition throughout evolution, and the scientific method is 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."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Homme de vérité. English

Alternative Title

Homme de vérité.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-303) and index.

Contents

Thinking matter -- The acquisition of knowledge -- States of consciousness -- Knowledge and social life -- From genes to brain -- Neuronal epigenesis and cultural evolution -- Scientific research and the search for truth -- The humanity of science -- Conclusion.

ISBN

0674012836
9780674012837

LCCN

2003058736

OCLC

ocm52937732
52937732
SCSB-9757780

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library