Programs Of The Brain. Based On The Gifford Lectures 1975-7.

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Oxford
Publisher Year: 1978
Edition: First Edition

Description: 325 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Our Brains Infuence All Our Thoughts And Actions, And An Understanding Of Them Is Relevant To Everything We Think And Do, Yet How Can The Great Masses Of Brain Tissue Provide The Motivation For These Actions?.

Publishers Description: Exploring the relevance of biological discovery to philosophical topics such as perception, freedom, determinism, and ethical values, J.Z. Young's provocative book illuminates the significant links between these philosophical concepts and recent developments in biology and the neurosciences. In clear-cut language, Young describes the brain and its functions, examining questions concerning physical makeup versus "real" self, the awareness of our moral sense, and how human consciousness differs from that of other animals. He approaches perception not as a passive process but as an active search for information, suggesting that human knowledge develops from a special process--essential to all organisms--of gathering information for survival.

ISBN: 0198575459