What the mind has to say to the brain – and vice versa
- Michael Hagner
How consciousness arises from organic matter and how the mind actually works – these are still among the little understood questions of neuroscience.
Michael Hagner prefers to deal with the topic from a historical perspective and, in his work, sharpens the reader’s (even layman’s) eye for how much our understanding of mind and brain depend on the paradigmatic models of their respective epochs. Which suggests the suspicion that the last word has not been said about contemporary views on brain waves and brain death either.
Michael Hagner currently holds a professorship at ETH Zurich. Most recently he published The Mind at Work. Historical Investigations into Brain Research.
He is the recipient of the Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
