The Parmenides Book Series “On Thinking” has been launched in 2009 with a first volume on "Neural Correlates of Thinking".
Series editors are the two directors of the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel and Prof. Dr. Albrecht von Müller. Each of the series' volumes is edited by different volume editors.
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Nature paper by John O'Doherty, member of the Parmenides Faculty
Neural evidence for inequality-averse social preferences
(Nature 463, 1089-1091 (25 February 2010))
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We are proud to announce the latest publication by Eörs Szathmáry - member of the Parmenides Faculty and of the core research team:
Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax
(edited together with Derek Bickerton), MIT Press.
The book presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.
"This book continues the debate between those who see the core rules of syntax as the result of biological evolution and those who stress cultural evolution atop more general brain functions. To this reader, the chapters enriched by consideration of brain and computation swing the weight of evidence to the latter camp."
—Michael Arbib, Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience, University of Southern California
->see book at MIT Press
