The Mirror and the Mind
A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences
$104.23
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2023
Summary
How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awareness
Since the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects-humans, infants, animals, and robots-in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the mirror self-recognition test, explo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691237251 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691237255 |
| Author: | Professor Katja Guenther, Katja Guenther |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Princeton Modern Knowledge |
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Critics Review
“Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers”
“Clearly written and beautifully detailed, this book will be of interest to psychologists, neuroscientists, and anthropologists at all levels of expertise interested in issues of self-recognition or misidentification between the self and other.”—Saira Khan, Quarterly Review of Biology
Professor Katja Guenther
Katja Guenther is professor of the history of science at Princeton University. She is the author of Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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