The self beyond itself : an alternative history of ethics, the new brain sciences, and the myth of free will / / Heidi M. Ravven
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| Autore: |
Ravven Heidi M. <1952->
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| Titolo: |
The self beyond itself : an alternative history of ethics, the new brain sciences, and the myth of free will / / Heidi M. Ravven
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (527 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 170 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethics |
| Neurosciences | |
| Free will and determinism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgments; 1 Searching for Ethics; 2 Moral Lessons of the Holocaust About Good and Evil, Perpetrators and Rescuers; 3 The Overwhelming Power of the Group and the Situation; 4 What Happened to Ethics:The Augustinian Legacy of Free Will; 5 Another Modernity: The Moral Naturalism of Maimonides and Spinoza; 6 Surveying the Field; 7 Beginning Again; 8 T e Self in Itself; 9 The Self Beyond Itself; 10 What Is Ethics?; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Few concepts are more unshakable in Western culture than free will, the idea that people are fundamentally free to make good or bad decisions. Scholar Heidi M. Ravven throws a wrench into this conventional view, calling free will a myth that reflects the still-powerful influence of Christian theology on our popular thinking.The Self Beyond Itself offers a riveting and accessible review of modern neuro-scientific research into the brain's capacity for decision-making?from mirror neurons and self-mapping to surprising new understandings of the dynamics of group psychology. Ul |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The self beyond itself |
| ISBN: | 9781595588005 |
| 1595588000 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910963824203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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