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Steven Rose

Professor of Biology and Neurobiology and co-author of Can neuroscience change our minds? with Hilary Rose

Neurobiologist and early critic of genetic determinism holding a lifetime award for "outstanding contributions to neuroscience." His books include the Science Book Prize winner The Making Of Memory.

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Neurobiologist and early critic of genetic determinism holding a lifetime award for "outstanding contributions to neuroscience." His books include the Science Book Prize winner The Making Of Memory.

Steven Rose Videos

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Barry C. Smith,Roger Bolton,Steven Rose,Margaret Boden

Neuroscience vs. Philosophy
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Steven Rose,Thomas Pogge,John Bird,Afua Hirsch

Escaping The Moral Maze
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Sue Bailey,Hermione Lee,Steven Rose,Jo Marchant

Memory and Forgetting
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Steve Fuller,Robert Rowland Smith,Peter Hacker,Steven Rose

The Edge of Reason

Steven Rose Articles

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The End of Psychology?
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Morality, Neuro-myths, and the Spurious Seduction of Evolutionary Ethics

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The Dance of Life
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The Illusion of Sense

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How to be a Stoic
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Knowing Others and Knowing Oneself
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The Mind and the World
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The Limits of Freedom
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The Secrets of Consciousness
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Matter and Mind
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Hearts and Minds
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The Story of I
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The Chemistry of Freedom
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Mind and the Universe
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Fate, Freedom, and Neuroscience

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Truth, Lies and Self-Deception
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Secrets of the Mind
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The Mind's Eye
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The Extended Mind
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Owning Ourselves
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Being Conscious
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On Having a Mind, Having a Body, and Being a Person
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The Fragility of the Human Personality
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Dangerous Convictions
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Actual Consciousness
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Stories of Desire
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At One With Ourselves
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Mind in the 21st Century
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The Tyranny of Freedom
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The Evolution of Consciousness
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The Edge of Reason
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Metaphors of the Mind

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The Road to the Good Life
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Are Selves Unreal?
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Animal Reason
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Inside the Mind’s Eye
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Catching Sight of Ourselves
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The Philosopher’s Guide to Style
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The Ego Trick
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Sensuality and Deception
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Who Looks Back in the Mirror
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Outrageous Fortune
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The Architecture of Being
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Entering the Unknown
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