| On the Edge of Certainty: Philosophical Explorations 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Tallis, Raymond (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333800222 ISBN-13: 9780333800225 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Philosophy | Epistemology - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 128.2 |
| Series: Philosophical Explorations |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.66 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Raymond Tallis's The Explicit Animal (1991) was a passionate attack on attempts to explain human consciousness in purely biological terms. This ground-breaking book defended the distinctive nature of human consciousness against the misrepresentations of those many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aimed to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological and computational terms. In his laudatory review in The Times Literary Supplement, Stephen Clark expressed the hope that Tallis would continue his explorations. On the Edge of Certainty does precisely that, investigating and clarifying the implications of the highly original view of human nature discussed in his earlier book, in order to understand the nature of truth, of language, of the mind and of the self. |