How History Gets Things Wrong

His patient frustration at humanity’s persistent wrong-headedness nicely seasons well-judged chapters that carefully guide the non-scientist through a history – there is no other word for it – of 20th-century neurological discoveries that prove his point.

Rosenberg has written a fascinating and challenging book, one that every historian should read and take into account.

Alex Rosenberg, a professor of philosophy at Duke University, has written a thought provoking and intellectually unsettling book.

Rosenberg’s thought-provoking book is to be praised for persuasively articulating the challenge of making sense of our cognitive practices once we have given up the idea of original representational contents.

Alex Rosenberg is R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of The Atheist’s Guide to Reality- Enjoying Life without Illusions and other books.

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