Author: Jean-Pierre Changeux
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Keywords: sciences, les, dans, vã©ritã©
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-01-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2738111718
ISBN-13: 9782738111715

Author: Jean-Pierre Changeux
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: man, neuronal
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-04-02
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691026661
ISBN-13: 9780691026664

Over the past thirty-five years, there has been an explosive increase in scientists’ ability to explain the structure and functioning of the human brain. While psychology has advanced our understanding of human behavior, various other sciences, such as anatomy, physiology, and biology, have determined the critical importance of synapses and, through the use of advanced technology, made it possible actually to see brain cells at work within the skull’s walls. Here Jean-Pierre Changeux elucidates our current knowledge of the human brain, taking an interdisciplinary approach and expla

Author: Jean-Pierre Changeux
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: brain, behaviour, initiative, mind, knowledge, truth, neuroscience, human, physiology
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0674012836
ISBN-13: 9780674012837

In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is? Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on the cultural history of science, Jean-Pierre Changeux makes a powerful case for the reality of scientific progress and argues that it forms the basis for a coherent and universal theory of human rights. On this view, belief in objective knowledge is not a mere ideological slogan or a naïve con

Author: Jean-Pierre Changeux
Publisher: Editions O. Jacob
Keywords: french, plaisir, raison
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1994
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ISBN-10: 2738102441
ISBN-13: 9782738102447

Authors:Gerald Edelman, Jean-Pierre Changeux,
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: brain
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2000-10-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0765807173
ISBN-13: 9780765807175

One of the vastly exciting areas in modern science involves the study of the brain. Recent research focuses not only on how the brain works but how it is related to what we normally call the mind, and throws new light on human behaviour. Progress has been made in researching all that relates to interior man, why he thinks and feels as he does, what values he chooses to adopt and what practices to scorn. All of these attitudes make us humans and help us to explain art, philosophy and religions. Motion, sight and memory, as well as emotions and the sentiments common to humans, are all given new

Authors:Jean-Pierre Changeux, Stuart J. Edelstein,
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Keywords: cognition, odile, jacob, biology, molecular, acetylcholine, receptors, nicotinic
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-09-08
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0976890801
ISBN-13: 9780976890805

The acetylcholine nicotinic receptor is among the most studied receptors in neuroscience. Involved in muscle contraction and a wide variety of other neurological functions, including the processing of nicotine, it was the first receptor to be isolated and observed at the molecular level, providing a major research pathway for scientists working in neuroscience, biochemistry, pharmacology, and behavioral science. This book describes four decades of scientific research that inform our current understanding of this receptor. Jean-Pierre Changeux and Stuart J. Edelstein played important roles in p

Authors:Jean-Pierre Changeux, Paul Ricoeur,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: human, nature, brain, ethics, argue, think, neuroscientist, philosopher, makes
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-02-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691092850
ISBN-13: 9780691092850

Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? In a remarkable exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the vexed territory between these divergent approaches--and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology to PET scans and from Spinoza to Charles Taylor, What Makes Us Think? revolves around a central issue: the relation between the facts (or "wh