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The Self and Its Brain

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  • © 1977

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Authors:
  1. Karl R. Popper

    1. Penn, Buckinghamshire, England

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  2. John C. Eccles

    1. Contra (Locarno), Switzerland

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Materialism Transcends Itself

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 3-35

    3. The Worlds 1, 2 and 3

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 36-50

    4. Materialism Criticized

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 51-99

    5. Some Remarks on the Self

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 100-147

    6. Historical Comments on the Mind-Body Problem

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 148-208

    7. Summary

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 209-210

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-226
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    2. The Cerebral Cortex

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 227-249

    3. Conscious Perception

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 250-274

    4. Voluntary Movement

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 275-294

    5. The Language Centres of the Human Brain

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 295-310

    6. Global Lesions of the Human Cerebrum

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 311-333

    7. Circumscribed Cerebral Lesions

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 334-354

    8. The Self-conscious Mind and the Brain

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 355-376

    9. Conscious Memory: The Cerebral Processes Concerned in Storage and Retrieval

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 377-406

  4. Dialogues Between the Two Authors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 423-423
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    2. Dialogue I

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 425-436

    3. Dialogue II

      • Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles
      Pages 437-448
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About this book

The problem of the relation between our bodies and our minds, and espe­ cially of the link between brain structures and processes on the one hand and mental dispositions and events on the other is an exceedingly difficult one. Without pretending to be able to foresee future developments, both authors of this book think it improbable that the problem will ever be solved, in the sense that we shall really understand this relation. We think that no more can be expected than to make a little progress here or there. We have written this book in the hope that we have been able to do so. We are conscious of the fact that what we have done is very conjectur­ al and very modest. We are aware of our fallibility; yet we believe in the intrinsic value of every human effort to deepen our understanding of our­ selves and of the world we live in. We believe in humanism: in human rationality, in human science, and in other human achievements, however fallible they are. We are unimpressed by the recurrent intellectual fashions that belittle science and the other great human achievements. An additional motive for writing this book is that we both feel that the debunking of man has gone far enough - even too far. It is said that we had to learn from Copernicus and Darwin that man's place in the universe is not so exalted or so exclusive as man once thought. That may well be.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Penn, Buckinghamshire, England

    Karl R. Popper

  • Contra (Locarno), Switzerland

    John C. Eccles

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Self and Its Brain

  • Authors: Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61891-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Sir Karl Popper and Sir John Eccles 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-61893-2Published: 26 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-61891-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 598

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Neurosciences, Medicine/Public Health, general

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