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Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Patricia Smith Churchland
ISBN-13: 9780262532006, ISBN-10: 026253200X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Patricia Smith Churchland

Patricia Smith Churchland is Chair of the Philosophy Department and the UC President's Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. She is past president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Book Synopsis

A neurophilosopher's take on the self, free will, human understanding, and the experience of God, from the perspective of the brain.

Table of Contents

Preface
1Introduction1
IMetaphysics35
2An Introduction to Metaphysics37
3Self and Self-Knowledge59
4Consciousness127
5Free Will201
IIEpistemology239
6An Introduction to Epistemology241
7How Do Brains Represent?273
8How Do Brains Learn?321
IIIReligion371
9Religion and the Brain373
Notes403
References421
Index451

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