Volume 25, Number 16 · October 26, 1978
Know Yourself
By Alfred J. Ayer
Programs of the Brain
by J.Z. Young
Oxford University Press, 325 pp., $14.95
When it comes to contemporary studies of the human brain, Professor J.Z. Young is in the position of the Master in the famous Balliol Masque. 'First come I, my name is Jowett. If it's knowledge then I know it.' The book which he has now published is based upon the series of Gifford lectures which Professor Young delivered in 1975-1977 at the University of Aberdeen. A condition of Lord Gifford's nineteenth-century bequest to the four main Scottish universities, which still serves to endow these lectures, was that they be devoted either to ethics or to natural theology, but with the passage of time and the waning of interest, if not in moral theory, at least in the claims of natural theology, this condition has come to be very laxly interpreted.
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