Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism (eBook, PDF)

Brains at Work with the World
Redaktion: Solymosi, T.; Shook, J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together active neuroscientists, neurophilosophers, and scholars this volume considers the prospects of a neuroscientifically-informed pragmatism and a pragmatically-informed neuroscience on issues ranging from the nature of mental life to the implications of neuroscience for education and ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137376077
• Artikelnr.: 41941417

Autorenporträt

Robert Arp Bill Bywater Anthony Chemero Markate Daly David D. Franks Mark Johnson Joel Krueger Simin Mohseni Alireza Moula Zachary Piso Antony J. Puddephatt Eric Racine W. Teed Rockwell Jay Schulkin Jeffrey B. Wagman

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables Preface; Tibor Solymosi and John R. Shook Notes on Contributors PART I: PRAGMATISM, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE BRAIN 1. Neuropragmatism and the Reconstruction of Scientific and Humanistic Worldviews; John R. Shook and Tibor Solymosi 2. Keeping the Pragmatism in Neuropragmatism; Mark Johnson 3. How Computational Neuroscience Revealed that the Pragmatists Were Right; W. Teed Rockwell 4. Pragmatism, Cognitive Capacity, and Brain Function; Jay Schulkin PART II: COGNITION, EMOTION, AND THE WORLD 5. The End of the Debate over Extended Cognition; Jeffrey B. Wagman and Anthony Chemero 6. Knowing and the Known: Brain Science and an Empirically Responsible Epistemology; David D. Franks 7. Dewey's Rejection of the Emotion/Expression Distinction; Joel Krueger PART III: CREATIVITY, EDUCATION, AND APPLICATION 8. Finding Unapparent Connections: How Our Hominin Ancestors Evolved Creativity by Solving Practical Problems; Robert Arp 9. Neuropragmatism and Apprenticeship: A Modelfor Education; Bill Bywater and Zachary Piso 10. A Neuropragmatist Framework for Childhood Education: Integrating Pragmatism and Neuroscience to Actualize Article 29 of the UN Child Convention; Alireza Moula, Antony J. Puddephatt and Simin Mohseni PART IV: ETHICS, NEUROSCIENCE, AND POSSIBILITY 11. Understanding the Contribution of Neuroscience to Ethics Within an Interdisciplinary Pragmatic Framework; Eric Racine 12. Pragmatic Ethics: A Dynamical Theory Based on Active Responsibility; Markate Daly 13. Moral First Aid for a Neuroscientific Age; Tibor Solymosi Index

Rezensionen

"If you're interested in delving into the potentially fruitful interplay of American Pragmatism and contemporary neuroscience, I would suggest having a look at this intriguing collection of papers. It nicely gets one up to speed on a number of different pragmatically-oriented philosophers who have been turning their interests to neurobiology in recent years, as well as a number of other neuroscientists, social scientists and cognitive scientists who take inspiration from the pragmatic perspective on the mind ... ." (Brian L. Keeley, Minds and Machines, Vol. 26, 2016)