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Author Malabou, Catherine.

Title What should we do with our brain? / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand.

Publication Info. New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  128.2 M236W    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xv, 94 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Contents Introduction: Plasticity and Flexibility-For a Consciousness of the Brain -- 1. Plasticities Fields of Action: Between Determination and Freedom -- The Three Plasticities -- Are We Free to Be High Performing? -- 2. The Central Power in Crisis -- The End of the "Machine Brain" -- Neuronal Man and the Spirit of Capitalism -- Social "Disaffiliation" and Nervous Depression: The New Forms of Exclusion -- 3. "You Are Your Synapses" -- The "Synaptic Self" or "Proto-Self" -- Lost in Translation: From the Neuronal to the Mental -- Another Plasticity -- Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-Globalism.
Note Translated from the French.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-94).
Subject Philosophy of mind.
Brain -- Philosophy.
Cognitive neuroscience -- Philosophy.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Added Title Que faire de notre cerveau? English
ISBN 0823229521 cloth alkaline paper
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