The delusions of certainty: Siri Hustvedt

Intro -- Coming In and Going Out -- Dressing Gowns, Triangles, Machines, Mind in Matter, and Giants -- Received Ideas and M -- What Are We? Nature/Nurture: Hard and Soft -- Brains: Hard or Soft? -- Nature/Nurture: Minds and Pop Culture -- Heritability and Twin Tales -- An Excursion into the Lives of...

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1. Verfasser: Hustvedt, Siri 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London ; Toronto ; New Delhi Simon & Schuster 2017
Ausgabe:Simon & Schuster ebook edition
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Zusammenfassung:Intro -- Coming In and Going Out -- Dressing Gowns, Triangles, Machines, Mind in Matter, and Giants -- Received Ideas and M -- What Are We? Nature/Nurture: Hard and Soft -- Brains: Hard or Soft? -- Nature/Nurture: Minds and Pop Culture -- Heritability and Twin Tales -- An Excursion into the Lives of Johnny and Jimmy and a Scientist Named Myrtle McGraw -- Number Certainties? -- New and Old Adventures at Harvard, Testosterone, Placebo, False Pregnancies, and Wishes and Fears Coming True -- A Moment for Frog Sacrifice and Aristotle's Biology -- Women Can't Do Physics -- A Marriage of Minds: Evolutionary Psychology -- Hardening and Softening Darwin? -- Survival Stories -- Mind as Literal Computer? -- The Wet Brain -- Unnatural Wonders -- Neurones and Psychons -- GOFAI vs. Know-How -- Machines, Emotions, and Bodies -- An Aside on Niels Bohr and Søren Kierkegaard -- Wet or Dry? -- Phantasy Land in Its Sincere and Ironic Modes -- The Thinking Body -- Empathy, Imagination, and Babies -- Memory, Placebo, and Weird Body Symbolism -- Work and Love -- Coda -- Notes -- Copyright.
Beschreibung:This title was originally published in 2016 in "A Woman looking at Men Looking at Women"
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (274 Seiten)
ISBN:9781501183607

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