Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Writing Science (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Varela PH.D., Francisco J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804730326 ISBN 13: 9780804730327

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“Varela’s work, in general, and this book, in particular, offer many enduring and insightful perspectives to scholars in the field of education and the complexiity sciences.”—Complicitiy: An International Journal of Complexity and Education

About the Author:

Francisco J. Varela is Director of Research at the French National Research Council and head of the Laboratory of Cognitive Psychophysiology at the Hospital of the Salpétrière, Paris. The most recent of his many books co-authored or co-edited in English is (with Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch) The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0804730326
• ISBN 13: 9780804730327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 85