John Horgan

The Undiscovered Mind

How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation

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Produktbeschreibung

John Horgan, who established himself as the "bad boy of science" with the controversial bestseller "The End of Science", explores recent efforts to understand the human mind and investigates everything from the effectiveness of treatments to the MIT-designed robot to replicate human thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780684865782
• ISBN-10: 0684865785
• Artikelnr.: 22173680

Autorenporträt

John Horgan is the author of The End of Science, a U.S. bestseller that has been translated into ten languages. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The New Republic, Lingua Franca, Slate, The Sciences, and Discover, among other publications in the United States and Europe. He lives in Garrison, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction I-Witnessing
One Neuroscience?s Explanatory Gap
Two Why Freud Isn?t Dead
Three Psychotherapy and the Dodo Hypothesis
Four Prozac and Other Placebos
Five Gene-Whiz Science
Six Darwin to the Rescue!
Seven Artificial Common Sense
Eight The Consciousness Conundrum
Epilogue The Future of Mind-Science
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author