The Delusions of Certainty

Download or read book The Delusions of Certainty written by Siri Hustvedt and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prizewinning novelist, feminist, and scholar Siri Hustvedt turns her brilliant and critical eye toward the metaphysical issues of neuropsychology in this lauded, standalone volume. Originally published in her collection A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, The Delusions of Certainty exposes how the age-old, unresolved mind-body problem has shaped - and often distorted and confused - contemporary thought in neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology.