The Brain Supremacy
The title of this book refers to the promise of neuroscience with its capacity to shape us and our self-understanding; this also offers some human…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
It Started with Copernicus
This book is an updated and revised version of a book first published in 2006. It is a good introduction to the philosophy of science,…… Read More »
The Quantum Age
As the title suggests, we are now unequivocally living in the quantum age. Even so, it is astonishing to learn that technology based on quantum…… Read More »
Why Humans Like To Cry
Subtitled 'tragedy, evolution and the brain' this is a fascinating cultural and neurological study about how humans are unique in shedding tears of sorrow, especially…… Read More »
Life and Process
As this volume shows, much of current philosophy of biology is based on the assumptions of classical physics, which look increasingly inadequate in the light…… Read More »
Mechanisms in World and Mind
This book by a professor of physiology seeks to justify reductive physicalism as an explanatory hypothesis from the angle of perspective dualism, which distinguishes the…… Read More »
Sensation
This is a fascinating book about the unconscious influences of our senses on our behaviour - the theory of embodied cognition. To be more precise,…… Read More »
ASK THE BEASTS: Darwin and the God of Love
This interesting exposition by Elizabeth A. Johnson (EAJ) Professor of Theology at Fordham University (New York) reminds us that the biosphere is a particularly exquisite…… Read More »
NEANDERTHAL MAN: IN SEARCH OF LOST GENOMES
It seems that the Scientific and Medical Network publishes a lot of spiritual commentary and not so much pertaining to mainstream scientific analysis. Much as…… Read More »
The Fourth Phase of Water
In The Fourth Phase of Water, Gerald Pollack offers an elegant new theory of water chemistry that has profound implications not only for chemistry and…… Read More »