De La Mettrie''s Ghost : The Story Of Decisions

Name: De La Mettrie''s Ghost
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9781403994950
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ISBN: 9781403994950

by C. Nunn

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Format Hardback

Book Series Macmillan Science

ISBN-10 1403994951

ISBN-13 9781403994950

Publisher Palgrave USA

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 31st, 2005

Print length 235 Pages

Product Classification: Philosophy of mind History of ideas History of ideas Cognition & cognitive psychology Cognition and cognitive psychology Philosophy of science Philosophy of mind

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This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman drama and beyond, it is a compelling hunt for the nature of free will.

This book is about how we make choices. It is a compelling analysis of the nature of free will, drawing together evidence from chemistry, literature, politics, history and beyond. Psychiatrist Chris Nunn elegantly explores the revolutions in medicine, genetics, bioethics and neuroscience spurred by Julien de la Mettrie''s 300-year-old tract Man the Machine. Nunn concludes that a mechanistic view of the human brain, though once fruitful, is now moribund. He proposes a powerful alternative: that stories, recorded in our memories throughout life, are the mediators of free choice. Nunn demonstrates how this original approach could reconcile the latest brain-imaging results and our seemingly contradictory intuition about decision making and responsibility.

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