The Mind and the Brain. Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps - Softcover

Binet, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444452126 ISBN 13: 9781444452129

Verlag: ValdeBooks, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What is the mind, and how does it relate to the physical brain? In The Mind and the Brain, pioneering psychologist Alfred Binet takes up one of philosophy and psychology’s most enduring problems: the relationship between consciousness, matter, sensation, and the nervous system. Beginning with the deceptively simple distinction between mind and matter, Binet examines how we know the external world, arguing that our knowledge reaches us through sensation. He then turns inward, exploring cognition, images, emotion, consciousness, and the unconscious, while questioning familiar assumptions about where the mental ends and the physical begins. In the final section, Binet confronts the great competing explanations of his age—spiritualism, idealism, materialism, and psychophysical parallelism. Drawing upon philosophy, physiology, and experimental psychology, he tests each theory against the stubborn facts of perception and cerebral activity before advancing his own carefully qualified hypothesis about the connection between brain and conscious experience. Clear, rigorous, and intellectually adventurous, this work captures a formative moment in the scientific study of mind. It remains a fascinating exploration of questions that still animate philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience: What is consciousness? What does the brain contribute to experience? And can mind and matter ever truly be separated?

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ValdeBooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1444452126
• ISBN 13: 9781444452129
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
• Herausgeber: Legge F.
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