Robert Alan Burton
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What if what we consider to be reason-based, deliberative judgment is really the product of involuntary mental sensations? In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, Dr. Robert Burton takes a close look at the key false assumptions that permeate the field of cognitive science and offers a new way of exploring how our brains generate thought. The essential paradox that drives this cutting-edge theory is that the same mechanisms that prevent understanding the...