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Publication details [#1193]
Varela, Francisco J. 1999. Ethical know-how: action, wisdom and cognition. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 95 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Main ISBN
0-8047-3033-4
Abstract
How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are not formal actions of conscious judgment but part of a habitual nexus of systematic self-organization; second, creating an ethics adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a transcendental self, a stable subject, or a soul.
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