Volume 15, Number 5 · September 24, 1970
Brain Storm
By P.F. Strawson
Mind and Brain: A Philosophy of Science
by Arturo Rosenblueth
MIT, 128 pp., $5.95
Physical Control of the Mind
by Jose M.R. Delgado
Harper & Row, 280 pp., $7.95
Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
by Robert M. Young
Oxford, 278 pp., $10.50
Dr. Rosenblueth is a specialist in neurophysiology, the field (the dust jacket assures us) 'most likely to provide hard answers to the central questions of perception, sensation, volition, and the nature of human knowledge,' since 'a nonneurological epistemology can only be impressionistic.' Dr. Rosenblueth is not the first to feel that the task of interpreting the world had better be undertaken by those who know something about it. Experimental scientists are the natural philosophers.
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