| Description |
1 online resource (130 pages) |
| Series |
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
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Perspectives in continental philosophy.
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| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Translator; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Plasticity's Fields of Action; 2. The Central Power in Crisis; 3. "You Are Your Synapses"; Conclusion; Notes |
| Summary |
Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized?plasticity,? the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings. Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy of mind.
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Brain -- Philosophy
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Cognitive neuroscience -- Philosophy
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Brain -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy of mind.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rand, Sebastian
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Jeannerod, Marc
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| ISBN |
9780823229543 |
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0823229548 |
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1282698877 |
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9781282698871 |
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