David Låg Tomasi

Critical Neuroscience and Philosophy

A Scientific Re-Examination of the Mind-Body Problem

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and discussion by scientists and philosophers. Drawing largely on neuroscience and philosophy, the author utilizes the scientific method and incorporates lessons learned from a vast array of sources. Based on the most recent cutting-edge scientific discoveries on the Mind-Body problem, Tomasi presents a full examination of multiple fields related to neuroscience. The volume offers a scientist-based and student-friendly journey into medicine, psychology, artificial intelligence, embodied cognition, and social, ecological and anthropological models of perception, to discover our truest self.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-35353-7
• 1st ed. 2020
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9783030353537
• ISBN-10: 3030353532
• Artikelnr.: 57913776

Autorenporträt

David Låg Tomasi is a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, and medical scientist, teaching at the University of Vermont and the Community College of Vermont, USA. A member of several national and international Academies of Sciences, he is the author of Medical Philosophy: A Philosophical Analysis of Patient Self-Perception in Diagnosis and Therapy (2016) and Mind-Body Medicine in Inpatient Psychiatry (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. The Exact Science of the Hard Matter.- 3. Between Psyche and Mind.- 4. Medicine on, of, and off the Brain.-5. Brain, Culture, Society.- 6. Perception and Cognition.- 7. Conclusion: Philosophy as Basic Approach Toward Neuroscience.