Brain Fiction - Table of Contents

September 2006
6 x 9, 301 pp., 16 illus.
$20.00/£14.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-58271-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-58271-1

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Brain Fiction
Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation
William Hirstein

	Series Foreword Sample Chapter - Download PDF (16 KB)	vii

	Acknowledgments	ix

1	What Is Confabulation? Sample Chapter - Download PDF (104 KB)	1

2	Philosophy and Neuroscience	25

3	Confabulation and Memory	43

4	Liars, Sociopaths, and Confabulators	71

5	Mind Reading and Misidentification	101

6	Unawareness and Denial of Illness	135

7	The Two Brains	153

8	Confabulation and Knowledge	177

9	Self-Deception	213

10	Epilogue: Our Nature	239

	References	245

	Name Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (28 KB)	277

	Subject Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (40 KB)	283

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