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In-Formation Serie de eBooks

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  • Picturing Personhood

    Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity

    de Joseph Dumit ...
    Series series In-Formation
    By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

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  • The Moral Landscape

    How Science Can Determine Human Values

    de Sam Harris ...
    New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Mind & The Brain

    Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

    de Sharon Begley, Jeffrey M. Schwartz ...
    A "fascinating" and groundbreaking work of science that demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).Conventional science has long held that "the mind" is an illusion, a mere side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. The Mind & The Brain argues exactly the opposite: that the mind has a life of its own. Dr. Schwartz, ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Strange Order of Things

    Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

    de Antonio Damasio ...
    From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Who's in Charge?

    Free Will and the Science of the Brain

    de Michael S. Gazzaniga ...
    "Gazzaniga is a giant in cognitive neuroscience . . . [He] advances a fascinating argument that both limits and contextualizes brain research." —Forbes.comThe author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the "father of cognitive neuroscience." In his remarkable book, Who's in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Biological Mind

    How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are

    de Alan Jasanoff ...
    A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brainsTo many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact. This blinds us to the physical realities of mental function. We ignore bodily influences on our psychology, from chemicals in the blood to bacteria ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Neuro

    The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind

    de Nikolas Rose, Joelle M. Abi-Rached ...
    The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that neuroscientists are poised to become the new experts in the management of human conduct. Neuro describes the key developments--theoretical, technological, ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Neuroexistentialism

    Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience

    Edición de Gregg Caruso, Owen Flanagan ...
    Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to support a foundation of being. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, ... Leer más

    $42.29 USD

  • In the Palaces of Memory

    How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads

    de George Johnson ...
    Even as you read these words, a tiny portion of your brain is physically changing. New connections are being sprouted--a circuit that will create a stab of recognition if you encounter the words again. That is one of the theories of memory presented in this intriguing and splendidly readable book, which distills three researchers' inquiries into the processes that enable us to recognize a face ... Leer más

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  • The Mind within the Brain

    How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go Wrong

    de A. David Redish ...
    In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly, Redish shows how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunctions, such as ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Being Brains

    Making the Cerebral Subject

    de Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega ...
    This "interesting, informative, and provocative book" explores the pervasive influence of neuroscience and "the view that we are essentially our brains" (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences).Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which came to prominence in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Gut Feminism

    de Elizabeth A. Wilson ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological. She examines research on anti-depressants, placebos, transference, phantasy, eating disorders and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD