Ethical Know-how
Action, Wisdom and Cognition
Published on 31. July 1999
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-8047-3032-7 (ISBN)
Description
How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science. Firstly, 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. Secondly, attempting to create an ethics adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a transcendental self, a stable subject or soul. The author combines researches in cognitive science and phenomenology with two representatives of what he calls the 'wisdom traditions': Confucianism and Buddhist epistemology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
235 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-3032-7 (9780804730327)
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Content
Preface; The first lecture: Know-How and Know What; 2. The second lecture: On Ethical Expertise; 3. The third lecture: The Embodiment of Emptiness; Notes.