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Toward Consilience
Gerald A. Cory
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Description for Toward Consilience
hardcover. This text establishes a framework for consilience, the unification of the natural and social sciences. It seeks to identify and trace the organic brain algorithms which, when replicated in our neural architecture, shape our human thought, behaviour, and language. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJN; MMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1810.
The present work is the second in a series constituting an extension of my doctoral thesis done at Stanford in the early 1970s. Like the earlier work, The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics, Shaping the Rational and Moral Basis ofOrganization, Exchange, and Choice (Plenum Publishing, 1999), it may also be considered to respond to the call for consilience by Edward O. Wilson. I agree with Wilson that there is a pressing need in the sciences today for the unification of the social with the natural sciences. I consider the present work to proceed from the perspective of behavioral ... Read more
The present work is the second in a series constituting an extension of my doctoral thesis done at Stanford in the early 1970s. Like the earlier work, The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics, Shaping the Rational and Moral Basis ofOrganization, Exchange, and Choice (Plenum Publishing, 1999), it may also be considered to respond to the call for consilience by Edward O. Wilson. I agree with Wilson that there is a pressing need in the sciences today for the unification of the social with the natural sciences. I consider the present work to proceed from the perspective of behavioral ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306464362
SKU
V9780306464362
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