Beyond a World Divided: Human Values in the Brain-Mind Science of Roger Sperry - Softcover

Stover, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595160379 ISBN 13: 9780595160372

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

Thinkers as diverse as C.P. Snow, J. Bronowski, and Carl Sagan have described the rift between the two cultures of science and the humanities as the greatest barrier to solving the many problems threatening todays world. During the last two decades of his life, Nobel laureate Roger W. Sperry best known for his pioneering split-brain studies that highlighted the differing aptitudes of the two hemispheres of the human brain turned his energies to this dilemma. Sperrys ideas about consciousness challenged the behaviorist orthodoxy that prevailed in psychology in the 1950s and 60s, and provided a way of understanding the relationship between brain and mind that not only more accurately reflected reality, but also promised a reconciliation between the conflicting claims of hard-edged objective fact and the realm of human emotion and subjective experience. Beyond A World Divided chronicles the neuroscientists groundbreaking research, his effo

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About the Author

An independent scholar and publisher of the journal, Humankind Advancing, Erika Erdmann worked as Roger Sperrys research associate. David Stover, editor-in-chief at Canadas largest textbook publisher, holds graduate degrees in history and journalism. Their other books include the recent A Mind for Tomorrow: Facts, Values, and the Future (Praeger, 2000).

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595160379
• ISBN 13: 9780595160372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232