Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition

by Francisco J. Varela

Book Overview

How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, 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; second, creating an ethics adequate to our present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804730334
• ISBN13: 9780804730334
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.9"