Self-Consciousness and 'Split' Brains: The Minds' I

ISBN-13: 9780198809654 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Elizabeth Schechter

Opis

Elizabeth Schechter explores the implications of the experience of people who have had the pathway between the two hemispheres of their brain severed, and argues that there are in fact two minds, subjects of experience, and intentional agents inside each split-brain human being: right and left. But each split-brain subject is still one of us.

Recenzje

Split brains have puzzled psychologists and neuroscientists since the first operations. Schechter has mastered the massive literature and argued for profound lessons for the philosophy of mind and action. Inquiring minds will be enthralled.

O autorze

Elizabeth Schechter is an assistant professor of philosophy and a member of the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis.