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  • The Moral Brain

    Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality

    Edited by Jan Verplaetse, Jelle de Schrijver, Sven Vanneste, Johan Braeckman ...
    Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did. A generation of young neurologists is using advanced technological medical equipment to unravel specific brain processes enabling moral cognition. In addition, evolutionary psychologists have formulated hypotheses about the origins and nature of our moral architecture. Little by little, the concept of a ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth."Intelligent Design" is being ... Read more

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  • The Recursive Mind

    The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition

    by Michael C. Corballis ...
    A groundbreaking theory of what makes the human mind uniqueThe Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. "I think, therefore I am," is an example of ... Read more

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  • Placebo Effects

    by Fabrizio Benedetti ...
    One of the most widespread words in medicine is placebo and placebo effect, although it is not always clear what it means exactly. Recent progress in biomedical research has allowed a better clarification of the placebo effect. We know that this is an active psychobiological phenomenon which takes place in the patient's brain and that is capable of influencing both the course of a disease and the ... Read more

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  • The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

    Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

    by Richard E. Passingham, Steven P. Wise ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of ... Read more

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  • Your Conscious Mind

    Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human?The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world around us and our own self. How all this emerges from a kilogram of brain cells is one of the greatest unanswered questions.In Your Conscious Mind leading brain ... Read more

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  • Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics

    Edited by Judy Illes, Barbara J. Sahakian ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront head-on some significant ethical issues regarding our application of this information in the real world- whether using brain images to establish guilt within a court of law, or developing drugs to enhance cognition. Historically, any consideration of ... Read more

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  • Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics

    by Jozef J. Zwislocki ...
    Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics organizes part of psychophysics -- a science of quantitative relationships between human sensations and the stimuli that evoke them. Although psychophysics belongs to sensory neuroscience, and is coupled to neurophysiology, it has also branched out to various specialized disciplines, including the disciplines of vision and hearing, ophthalmology, ... Read more

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  • Evolution of the Cerebellar Sense of Self

    by John Montgomery, David Bodznick ...
    The cerebellum is an intriguing component of the brain. In humans it occupies only 10% of the brain volume, yet has approximately 69 billion neurons; that is 80% of the nerve cells in the brain. The cerebellum first arose in jawed vertebrates such as sharks, and early vertebrates also have an additional cerebellum-like structure in the hindbrain. Shark cerebellum-like structures function as ... Read more

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  • Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense

    by Nada Gligorov ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is focused on the examination of the particular relationship between developments in neuroscience and commonsense concepts, such as free will, personal identity, privacy, etc., which feature prominently in moral discourse. In the book common sense is recast as an ever-shifting repository of theories from many domains, including science. Utilizing this alternative characterization of ... Read more

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  • Is evidence-based psychiatry ethical?

    by Mona Gupta ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    Rated as one of the top 15 breakthroughs in medicine over the last 150 years, evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become highly influential in medicine. Put simply, EBM promotes a seemingly irrefutable, principle: that decision-making in medical practice should be based, as much as possible, on the most up-to-date research findings. EBM has been particularly popular within psychiatry, a field that ... Read more

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