{"product_id":"preserving-the-person","title":"Preserving the Person","description":"The human quest for self-understanding is ancient. It transcends the boundaries between ordinary folk and philosophers and it over- laps with many academic disciplines, including psychology, sociology, philosophy and theology. Actually, the quest is not essentially academic; it is a human quest, pursued by persons in every age. With this in mind, philosopher C. Stephen Evans takes a look at the human sciences and their contribution to this self-understanding. Evans first presents a basic problem in these sciences today: the attack on the concept of personhood. He reviews the contemporary understanding of mind and brain: Is a person only a thinking machine or a programmed organism? Then he evaluates the impact of Auguste Comte, Sigmund Freud, J.B. Watson, B.F. Skinner and Emile Durkheim on what Evans terms ?","brand":"C. Stephen Evans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43626327343316,"sku":"9781573830263","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9351\/9316\/files\/10048245_LRG.jpg?v=1776250100","url":"https:\/\/etcevents.co.uk\/products\/preserving-the-person","provider":"ETCEvents","version":"1.0","type":"link"}