Wolfson College Humanities Society
Wolfson College Humanities Society
Cambridge University
Professor Simon Blackburn: Brains, Science, and Human Nature
51 minutes Posted Feb 19, 2013 at 8:21 am.
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Although there have been a large number of books busy explaining that advances in neuroscience are due to revolutionise, or at the very least underpin and accelerate, our understanding of human nature, there has been less reflection on just how likely or unlikely that is. In this talk I hope to suggest that the issue is a good deal more complex than some of the more triumphalist, and optimistic, writings in this genre seem to think.