John Horgan, who established himself as the "bad boy of science" with the controversial bestseller "The End of Science", explores recent efforts to understand the human mind and investigates everything from the effectiveness of treatments to the MIT-designed robot to replicate human thinking.
John Horgan, who established himself as the "bad boy of science" with the controversial bestseller "The End of Science", explores recent efforts to understand the human mind and investigates everything from the effectiveness of treatments to the MIT-designed robot to replicate human thinking.
John Horgan is the author of The End of Science, a U.S. bestseller that has been translated into ten languages. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The New Republic, Lingua Franca, Slate, The Sciences, and Discover, among other publications in the United States and Europe. He lives in Garrison, New York.
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Contents Introduction I-Witnessing One Neuroscience?s Explanatory Gap Two Why Freud Isn?t Dead Three Psychotherapy and the Dodo Hypothesis Four Prozac and Other Placebos Five Gene-Whiz Science Six Darwin to the Rescue! Seven Artificial Common Sense Eight The Consciousness Conundrum Epilogue The Future of Mind-Science Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author
Contents Introduction I-Witnessing One Neuroscience?s Explanatory Gap Two Why Freud Isn?t Dead Three Psychotherapy and the Dodo Hypothesis Four Prozac and Other Placebos Five Gene-Whiz Science Six Darwin to the Rescue! Seven Artificial Common Sense Eight The Consciousness Conundrum Epilogue The Future of Mind-Science Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author
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