Gerhard Roth

Hardly any other field of research has undergone developments as turbulent as those within neuroscience. At the same time, the field has become the topic of fierce interdisciplinary debates that predominantly revolve around one single question: Are neuroscientific findings forcing us to revise our established conception of man?

Following in the footsteps of his bestselling...

No scientific debate has been fought out in public with as much vehemence in recent years as the dispute over free will. The traditional concept of »free will«, which is also the basis of...

Gerhard Roth’s project is to use the findings of modern neurobiology and brain research to answer questions that have occupied philosophers, scientists and all thinking people forever: Are humans unique? How is our world of consciousness created? Can we recognise the world as it is, or is our perception a construction of our brain? What should we listen to: reason or emotion? What shapes...

The central question of this book is: Who or what determines human behaviour: the thinking, rational, more or less freely deciding ego, our genes, environmental influences or the unconscious? The question is discussed and answered in detail in the light of recent findings of brain research and psychology. Feeling, Thinking, Acting deals with the relationship between consciousness and the...

The Brain and its Reality presents the latest findings on the biological, evolutionary-biological and neurobiological foundations of perception and cognitive performance, of consciousness and mind. It discusses how and within what limits consciousness and mind can be made »visible« with today’s neurophysiological and imaging methods. Building on these foundations, a...