A skeptic's guide to the mind : what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about ourselves / Robert A....
A skeptic's guide to the mind : what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about ourselves / Robert A....
A skeptic's guide to the mind : what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about ourselves / Robert A. Burton, M.D.
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New York : St. Martin's Press, [2013]
New York St. Martin's Press, 2013.
Date
[2013]
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G 2013/2691
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English
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264 pages ; 22 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Shape of Your Mind -- 2.Agency, Will and Intention -- 3.Causation -- 4.Sensational Reason -- 5.Logic's Reason -- 6.Metacognition -- 7.On the Level -- 8.Talking in Tongues -- 9.Under the Big Top -- 10.Consciousness Unexplained -- 11.Anatomy of a Thought -- 12.Mo...
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Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2013]
New York St. Martin's Press, 2013.
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New York (State)
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[2013]
2013.
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"What if what we consider to be reason-based, deliberative judgment is really the product of involuntary mental sensations? In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, Dr. Robert Burton takes a close look at the key false assumptions that permeate the field of cognitive science and offers a new way of exploring how our brains generate thought. The essential...
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A skeptic's guide to the mind : what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about ourselves / Robert A. Burton, M.D.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index.
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G 2013/2691
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ISBN
9781250001856 (hardback)
DDC
616.8
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991019133919702626
