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Friday's Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind - Brothers, Leslie
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The image of Robinson Crusoe, an isolated individual, embodies a metaphor for the human mind. It is the metaphor that has determined the practices of contemporary neuroscience until now. To bridge the worlds of mind and brain, Leslie Brothers replaces this isolated mind metaphor and reveals the brain as a social organ. Findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, psychiatry, neuropsychology, anthropology, palaeontology, and sociology together present a convincing argument: that it is not possible to understand the ...

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Friday's Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind 2001, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195147049

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Friday's Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind 1997, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195101034

Hardcover