The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge (Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative) - Hardcover

Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674012836 ISBN 13: 9780674012837

Verlag: The Belknap Press, 2004

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Book by Changeux JeanPierre

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[Changeux] thinks it is time that scientists attempted to explain mythic thought, because only by understanding irrational belief can they explain the rational search for truth that grew out of it. An objective knowledge does exist, and our brains are equipped to recognise it. But the quest for it is often biased by political and economic forces, and the editorial decisions of journals which are at the mercy of those forces.--Laura Spinney"New Scientist" (04/24/2004)

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In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is? 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. In 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 its most sophisticated embodiment. Seeking to reconcile science and humanism, Changeux holds that the capacity to recognise truths that are independent of subjective personal experience constitutes the foundation of a human civil society.

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• Verlag: The Belknap Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0674012836
• ISBN 13: 9780674012837
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336