BEING BRAINS

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of one of the most influential and pervasive contemporary beliefs: We are our brains. S tarting in the Decade of the Brain of the 1990s, neurocentrism became widespread in most Western and many non-Western societies. Formidable advances, especially in neuroimaging, have bolstered this neurocentrism in the eyes of the public and political author ities, helping to justify increased funding for the brain sciences.