Stephen S. Hall
Auteur van Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience
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Stephen S. Hall is the author of critically acclaimed histories of contemporary science. He has been a contributing writer and editor at the New York Times Magazine, and his work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Science, and many other periodicals
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In the second section of his book, Hall discusses the Eight Neural Pillars of Wisdom and the experiments that various psychologist, behavioral economists, and neuro-scientists have carried out in an effort to pinpoint where in the brain these eight "pillars" are happening. These include such traits as emotional regulation, compassion, and patience among others. This section does require close attention to terminology at times.
Section three is entitled Becoming Wise. What are the seeds of wisdom? Is it true that older really is wiser? What is everyday wisdom in the everyday world? He concludes with a chapter "Dare to Be Wise" where he tries to put everything together and finds that a definition of exactly what wisdom is, is still elusive.
This is a good overview of what had been discovered by the many researchers that Hall interviewed and where this area of neuroscience stood as he was finishing his book (which was published in 2010). Recommended… (meer)