The incredible shrinking mind : what happens when the human equation gets lost / Gerald Alper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alper, Gerald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Behaviorism (Psychology).

Human behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining the assertions and fallacies of the theories conceived (or contrived) by some of today's most brilliant scientists and thinkers (including Dan Ariely, John Barrow, Pascal Boyer, Frank Close, Nicholas Humphrey, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Milgram, Oliver Sacks, and Carl Sagan), the authorexplores why these varied attempts at joining the world of experience and the world of measurement so regularly fail, how consciousness explained is really a concentrated effort to explain away the subjective phenomena of consciousness. From the psychic rat to the gorilla in the room, from British double-agent Kim Philby to comedian Steve Martin, The Incredible Shrinking Mind not only offers a provocative and entertaining critique, but also a profound and practical solution: the psychodynamic approach, which takes seriously the question of meaning and not solely observable behaviour, which combines the quantitative and the experimental with the human and multidimensional, which seeks to understand not just how but why.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The psychic rat

chapter 2 If you could save the entire human race from perishing by strangling to death one innocent child ...

chapter 3 Homo economicus

chapter 5 on one with God

chapter 5 Sound bites from the cosmos.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-92106-3

0-429-90683-8

0-367-10187-4

0-429-48206-X

1-78241-106-2

9780429482069

OCLC:

856626534