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Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals about How We Become Who We Are (Hardcover)

by Steven R. Quartz (Author), Terrence J. Sejnowski (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow & Company; 1 edition (Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0688162185
  • ISBN-13: 978-0688162184
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.1 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,002,678 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A challenge to evolutionary psychology?, 30 Jun 2004
This review is from: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals about How We Become Who We Are (Paperback)
Liars, Lovers, and Heroes is a never boring, well-written book which should be read by anyone seriously interested in the nature versus nurture debate. If you already know Pinker, Dawkins and Dennett, you will find the first chapters of this book challenging.
The authors defend their thesis of "cultural biology" with sound theoretical arguments. The evidence presented is not as sound, but this should not be seen as the authors' fault. While twin studies have an easy task in showing that 50% of the variance in psychological traits is explained by a shared genetic sequence, it is much harder to show how the unexplained 50% is affected by systematic environmental patterns. Anyhow, in terms of scientific rigour you will not be disappointed.
If you have lost any hope for a better world this book may help you live a bit (only a little bit) better.
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5.0 out of 5 stars one of the ways forward in modern neuroscience, 5 Jun 2007
This review is from: Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals about How We Become Who We Are (Paperback)
The authors are two of the world's leading neuroscientists, in particular Terry Sejnowski. What they do in this book is set out, in entertaining and easy to follow prose, how the coevolution of brain and world works, a view they call "cultural biology" for their pop-science readership (and "neural constructivism" for their professorial readership). The book does the right job in pop-science - enlightens the lay reader while providing references for the would-be intellectuals. Above all Quartz and Sejnowski show us a way forward in neuroscience that avoids the traps that Pinker-populised evolutionary psychology has fallen into. In the future, people will refer to neural constructivism as part of the movement into dynamical systems in philosophy and neuroscience. Some of the examples refer more than necessary to US culture, but that is a minor gripe. If you are interested in nature, nurture, and the brain, ignore Pinker and buy this book instead.

[ps - the same review appears on another website, written by me though so no copyright issues here]
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