The Physiology of Truth : Neuroscience and Human Knowledge /
"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 al...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Thinking Matter
- 2. The Acquisition of Knowledge
- 3. States of Consciousness
- 4. Knowledge and Social Life
- 5. From Genes to Brain
- 6. Neuronal Epigenesis and Cultural Evolution
- 7. Scientific Research and the Search for Truth
- 8. The Humanity of Science
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index