● 医生、记者兼作家。耶鲁大学及加州大学旧金山医学院的双料高材生。33岁成为加州大学锡安山医院最年轻有为的神经科主任。 ● 擅长把尖端神经科学、实验数据和趣闻轶事相结合，提出极具挑战性、开创性的观点。 ● 常常受邀为《纽约时报》《旧金山纪事报》和《沙龙网络杂志》撰写文章，还经常被邀请做有关大脑、思维、神经科学与科学哲学方面的演讲。著有《人类思维中最致命的错误》以及三本深受评论界好评的小说。目前居住在旧金山湾区。

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions. Mama’s Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared as a video, offers a window into how deep ...(展开全部)

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions. Mama’s Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared as a video, offers a window into how deep ...(展开全部)

Is science ever enough to explain why we feel the way we feel? In this engaging account, renowned neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto blends cutting-edge scientific research with personal stories to reveal how our brains generate our emotions. He demonstrates that while modern science has expanded our knowledge, investigating art, literature, and philosophy is equally crucial to ...(展开全部)

What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In "Braintrust", neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the 'neurobiological platform of bonding' that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. ...(展开全部)

帕特里夏·S.丘奇兰德，加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校荣休哲学教授，以及索尔克研究所(Salk Institute)的兼职教授，其在神经哲学与心智哲学方面贡献卓著。她的书包括《脑智》(Brain-Wise)、《神经哲学》(Neurophilosophy)等。1991年，她荣获麦克·阿瑟奖。

What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. Th...(展开全部)

The inner workings of the human brain may be a great mystery, but the mind's true purpose has been verified time and time again: your brain is secretly conspiring against you to make you crazy. How else can we account for the needless fears, dramas, tizzies, and rages that affect us on a minute-by-minute basis? "The User's Guide to the Human Mind" attempts to explain the seemin...(展开全部)

Neuroscientists once believed your brain was essentially "locked down" by adulthood. No new cells. No major changes. If you grew up depressed, angry, sad, aggressive, or nasty, you'd be that way for life. And, as you grew older, there'd be nowhere to go but down, as disease, age, or injury wiped out precious, irreplaceable brain cells. But over the past five, ten, twenty years,...(展开全部)

Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets – about sexless marriages, mental health pr...(展开全部)