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" De La Mettrie's ghost : "
by Chris Nunn.
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BL
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994131
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b748501
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| Main Entry
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Nunn, Chris,1940-
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De La Mettrie's ghost : : the story of decisions /\ by Chris Nunn.
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New York :: Macmillan,, 2005.
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vii, 228 pages ;; 21 cm
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1403994951
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: 9781403994950
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-220) and index.
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| Abstract
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"This book is about how we make choices. It is an analysis of the nature of free will, drawing together evidence from physics, chemistry, literature, politics, history and beyond." "Psychiatrist Chris Nunn explores the revolutions in medicine, genetics, bioethics and neuroscience spurred by Julien de La Mettrie's 300-year-old tract Man the Machine. Nunn concludes that a mechanistic view of the human brain, though once fruitful, is now moribund." "He proposes a powerful alternative: that stories, recorded in our memories throughout life, are the mediators of free choice. Nunn demonstrates how this original approach could reconcile the latest brain-imaging results and our seemingly contradictory intuition about decision making and responsibility."--Jacket.
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La Mettrie, Julien Offray de,1709-1751., Homme machine.
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Consciousness.
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Decision making.
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Free will and determinism.
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Mechanism (Philosophy)
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Mind and body.
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Physiology.
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Consciência (percepção)
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Consciousness.
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Decision making.
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Entscheidung
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Free will and determinism.
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Handlung
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Mechanism (Philosophy)
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Mente.
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Mind and body.
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Philosophie
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Physiology.
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Tomada de decisão.
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Willensfreiheit
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Homme machine (La Mettrie, Julien Offray de)
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| Dewey Classification
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153
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B808.9.N88 2005
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5,1ssgn
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77.45bcl
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CC 6960rvk
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CC 7220rvk
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