Man, Beast and Zombie: The New Science of Human Nature - Softcover

Malik, Kenan

 
9780753812952: Man, Beast and Zombie: The New Science of Human Nature
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753812959 ISBN 13: 9780753812952
Verlag: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Are humans unique? Can animals think as we do? Will machines ever be conscious? What is free will? For centuries, attempts to answer these questions have been the stuff of theological and philosophical dispute, as well as bar-room debate. Now scientists claim they can solve these riddles of human existence, once and for all. Man, Beast and Zombie is a thrillingly original and accessible book. Huge in its reach and powerful in its grasp, it draws on cutting-edge sciences such as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology and Artificial Intelligence to assess what, precisely, they can and cannot explain about human nature. Kenan Malik explains the histories of these sciences and the philosophies that underpin them and analyses the complex relationship between human beings, animals and machines to explore what really makes us human.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kenan Malik trained as a neurobiologist and was a research psychologist at the Centre for Research into Perception and Cognition at Sussex University. He is now a writer and lecturer. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Independentand the Financial Times. He is the author of the acclaimed study of racism, history and science, The Meaning of Race.

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Verlag
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0753812959
ISBN 13 
9780753812952
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
480
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