The undiscovered mind : how the human brain defies replication, medication, and explanation / John H...
The undiscovered mind : how the human brain defies replication, medication, and explanation / John H...
The undiscovered mind : how the human brain defies replication, medication, and explanation / John Horgan.
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New York : Free Press, c1999.
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N612.82/50
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English
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325 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: I-Witnessing -- 1. Neuroscience's Explanatory Gap -- 2. Why Freud Isn't Dead -- 3. Psychotherapy and the Dodo Hypothesis -- 4. Prozac and Other Placebos -- 5. Gene-Whiz Science -- 6. Darwin to the Rescue! -- 7. Artificial Common Sense -- 8. The Consciousness Conundrum -- Epilogue: The...
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New York : Free Press, c1999.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1999.
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"John Horgan focuses on the single most important scientific enterprise of all - the effort to understand the human mind - and exposes a world of minor and doubtful achievement."--BOOK JACKET.
"Horgan takes us inside laboratories, hospitals, and universities to meet neuroscientists. Freudian analysts, electroshock therapists, behavioral geneticists, evolutionary psychologists, artificial intelligence engineers, and philosophers of consciousness. He looks into the persistent explanatory gap between mind and body that Socrates pondered and...
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The undiscovered mind : how the human brain defies replication, medication, and explanation / John Horgan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English.
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c1999.
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N612.82/50
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0684850753
9780684850757
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612.82
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991011652159702626
