coming soon: ‘Brainstorming’ by Shaun Gallagher
Written on May 12, 2008
Brainstorming: Views and Interviews on the Mind by Shaun Gallagher (Imprint Academic, 2008). According to Amazon, this book is due out on June 1.
From the publisher:
Shaun Gallagher is a philosopher of mind who has made it his business to study and meet with leading neuroscientists, including Michael Gazzaniga, Marc Jeannerod and Chris Frith.
The result is this unique introduction to the study of the mind, with topics ranging over consciousness, emotion, language, movement, free will and moral responsibility. The discussion throughout is illustrated by lengthy extracts from the author’s many interviews with his scientist colleagues on the relation between the mind and the brain.Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Central Florida and the University of Hertfordshire.
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