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Author Malabou, Catherine, author

Title What should we do with our brain? / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 94 pages)
Series Perspectives in continental philosophy
Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Contents Introduction: Plasticity and Flexibility-For a Consciousness of the Brain -- 1. Plasticities Fields of Action: Between Determination and Freedom -- The Three Plasticities -- Are We Free to Be High Performing? -- 2. The Central Power in Crisis -- The End of the "Machine Brain" -- Neuronal Man and the Spirit of Capitalism -- Social "Disaffiliation" and Nervous Depression: The New Forms of Exclusion -- 3. "You Are Your Synapses" -- The "Synaptic Self" or "Proto-Self" -- Lost in Translation: From the Neuronal to the Mental -- Another Plasticity -- Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-Globalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-94)
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Subject Philosophy of mind.
Brain -- Philosophy
Cognitive neuroscience -- Philosophy
Adaptability (Psychology)
Neuroplasticity.
Neural transmission.
Cognition -- physiology
Brain -- physiology
Neuronal Plasticity
Synaptic Transmission
Adaptation, Psychological
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Neuroplasticity
Neural transmission
Adaptability (Psychology)
Brain -- Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of Mind
Neuronale Plastizität
Neoliberalismus
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008031352
ISBN 9780823229543
0823229548
9780823260607
0823260607
Other Titles Que faire de notre cerveau? English