Author: Kathryn St. Ours

  • Rose, Hilary and Steven Rose, Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds?

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    Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? (Cambridge: Polity Press 2016) 170 pp. £35.00 Hb, £9.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780745689319 The equivocal title of this short book by Emerita Professor of Social Policy Hilary Rose and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience Steven Rose is admittedly ‘a restatement of our overall perspective on the mutual…

  • Armstrong, Paul B., How Literature Plays with the Brain

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    Paul B. Armstrong, How Literature Plays with the Brain (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) xv+221 pp. Hb $49.95, Pb, EPub, Mobi, PDF $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1576-5 Although this study covers ground familiar to anyone conversant with scientific and/or humanist perspectives on such notions as empathy, de-familiarization or hermeneutics, Armstrong’s analysis – as suggested by the…

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