The Physiology of Truth

Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

Jean-Pierre Changeux

Translated by M. B. DeBevoise

  • 2004 Rockefeller University Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science

Introduction

1. Thinking Matter

2. The Acquisition of Knowledge

3. States of Consciousness

4. Knowledge and Social Life

5. From Genes to Brain

6. Neuronal Epigenesis and Cultural Evolution

7. Scientific Research and the Search for Truth

8. The Humanity of Science

Conclusion

Notes

Credits

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: The Physiology of Truth
  • A photo of the author

Jean-Pierre Changeux, author of the classic Neuronal Man, is Director of the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, Professor in the Collège de France, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.