UK: Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the £20,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize

Mazviita Chirimuuta’s work is hailed by the Al-Rodhan jury as not overlooking the true complexity of the brain. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘This Remarkably Original Book’ n a remarkably busy season of competition announcments, the United Kingdom’s Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced Mazviita Chirimuuta’s The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience from MIT Press the ... The post UK: Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the £20,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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