Joseph E. LeDoux

The happiness agenda is a worldwide movement that claims happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this programme, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice. Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this...

One of the world's leading experts on mind and brain takes us on an expedition that reveals a new view of what makes us who we are. Humans have long thought of their bodies and minds as separate spheres of existence. The body is physical—the source of aches and pains. But the mind is mental; it perceives, remembers, believes, feels,...

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book "A big picture perspective on the mind, decision-making, and consciousness… Provocative and stimulating." – Philosophical Psychology "LeDoux's aim is to provide a new theory of being human by dividing our evolutionary past into four realms: biological at the bottom, then neurobiological, cognitive and conscious… Along the way are excellent accounts of the evolution of brain...