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Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject (forms Of Living) by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject (forms Of Living) about?
Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that “we are our brains,” which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a “neural turn,” in the form of neuro-subspecialties in fields such as anthropology, aesthetics, education, history, law, sociology, and theology. Dubious but successful commercial enterprises such as “neuromarketing” and “neurobics” have emerged to take advantage of the height
Who reads Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject (forms Of Living)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780823276097
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Engineering, Anthropology, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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