{"product_id":"lessons-from-an-optical-illusion-9780674525412","title":"Lessons from an Optical Illusion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a bold, modern recasting of the age-old nature-nurture debate, informed by revolutionary insights from brain science, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, linguistics, evolutionary biology, child development, ethics, and even cosmology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Peter] Kramer [author of \u003ci\u003eListening to Prozac\u003c\/i\u003e] particularly enjoys books that stand on the boundary of psychiatry and philosophy. He says \u003ci\u003eLessons from an Optical Illusion\u003c\/i\u003e...is a stunning and overlooked example. 'Hundert begins with the question of how we construct reality. He walks readers through the contributions of Kant, Descartes, and Hegel before admixing the findings of neurobiology. Hundert shows how clarifying cognitive science can be for central problems of Western philosophy.' * Lingua Franca (\"Breakthrough books in cognitive science\") *\u003cbr\u003eHundert takes us on an exhilarating journey into the maze of interconnections of mind and nature, sweeping over contemporary research in a variety of fields...The ideas are clearly and forcefully presented [and] he provides laypersons and experts with a fascinating glimpse into the convergence of different perspectives on mind and nature. -- H. C. Byerly * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating tour beyond the old nature-nurture debate to reveal the 'startling degree to which facts are our creation and values are woven into the fabric of the world.' * Long Range Planning *\u003cbr\u003eThe author, a psychiatrist with credentials in clinical psychiatry and philosophy, draws on both fields and on neurophysiology to examine, in this scholarly and sophisticated text, the historical development of the nature-nurture question...For those in psychiatry, as in other fields of the behavioral sciences, the book offers a thought-provoking invitation to reassess some of these assumptions. This is a significant and unique contribution to the field of mental health that should be read by all those who work in it. -- William Hausman * Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health *\u003cbr\u003eEdward Hundert takes us on a fascinating journey through time, revealing the evolution of thought about the functioning of the human mind. This important book captures the sometimes startling ways nature and nurture can combine as we strive toward the fulfillment of our human potential. Hundert offers great food for thought, along with much humor and wisdom, as we reflect upon our responsibility for the human future. -- Jonas Salk\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary synthesis that gathers in not only evolutionary theory but epistemology, brain development, ethics, and aesthetics in a seemingly effortless, natural, and convincing way. Hundert is both a forceful thinker and a gentle, steady, teacher. This small book could become a general guide for how moderns should think. -- Leston Havens, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Contact\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eComing to Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreathtaking...One of the most informative, amusing, knowledgeable, and inspiring readings in the decade of the brain on its results so far. -- Christoph Mundt * American Journal of Psychiatry *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLessons from an Optical Illusion\u003c\/i\u003e serves at once as a clear introduction and an original contribution to two important fields, philosophy and neuroscience. In Dr. Hundert's hands, cognitive science provides a new key to central problems of epistemology, beginning with the question of how the self discovers or constructs the world. This book is one of those overlooked gems that deserves much wider recognition and readership than it has so far received. -- Peter D. Kramer, author of \u003ci\u003eListening to Prozac\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShould You Leave?\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359093686615,"sku":"9780674525412","price":31.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674525412.jpg?v=1754123558","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lessons-from-an-optical-illusion-9780674525412","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}