All Posts Tagged With: "neuroscience"
Is Neuroscience Blind?
Researchers in England claim they now understand why love is “blind,” that is, why people tend not to see faults in their loved ones. According to British psychiatrist Raj Persaud’s newspaper commentary on the research, the answer is that, for evolutionary reasons, “strong emotional ties to another person . . . affect the brain circuits [...]
1Sep2004 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedBack to Basics
Lately I’ve landed in discussions about whether there is such a thing as human action. I’m not kidding. Some educated people have their doubts. Just to be clear from the outset, human action, as Ludwig von Mises pointed out, is purposeful behavior, as opposed to the reflex that occurs when the patellar tendon is struck. [...]
1Dec2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedMental Illness: Psychiatry’s Phlogiston
“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton In physics the same laws are used to explain why airplanes fly and why they crash. In medicine the same principles are used to explain why people live and [...]
1Nov2001 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | ContinuedEinstein’s Brain and the Egalitarian Mind
Steven Yates is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong with Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994) and numerous articles and reviews. Late last spring a team of neuroscientists based at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, released the first detailed study of Albert Einstein’s brain, which had been preserved since his death in 1955. Einstein [...]
1Nov1999 | Steven Yates | 0 comments | Continued-
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