Description: This "unauthorized biography" of cognitive neuroscience unveils hidden errors in current mind-body accounts and sheds new light on basic scientific issues.
Brief description: Leslie Brothers is a private consultant in Los Angeles and the author of Friday's Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind.
Review Quotes:
"Mistaken Identity is a bold, incisive, witty, provocative examination of one of the most pressing philosophical and scientific problems of our time, and could become a significant new rallying point in the consciousness wars." -- John Horgan, author of The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation
"This book provides a subtle and very important criticism of many ordinary ways of understanding the relation of mind and brain." -- Nancey Murphy, coeditor of Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action