Brain Theory: Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy

ISBN-13: 9781349350575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 289 str.

C. Wolfe

Opis

Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain. This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art reflections on philosophical efforts to 'make sense' of neuroscience, as regards issue including neuroaesthetics, brain science and the law, neurofeminism, embodiment, race, memory and pain.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Charles Wolfe PART I 2. Memory Traces Between Brain Theory and Philosophy; Jean-Claude Dupont 3. Pain and the Nature of Psychological Attributes; Stephen Gaukroger 4. Is the Next Frontier in Neuroscience a 'Decade of the Mind'?; Jackie Sullivan 5. Neuroconstructivism: A Developmental Turn in Cognitive Neuroscience?; Denis Forest PART II 6. Computing with Bodies: Morphology, Function, and Computational Theory; John Symons and Paco Calvo 7. Embodied Collaboration in Small Groups; Kellie Williamson and John Sutton 8. Little-E Eliminativism in Mainstream Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience: Tensions for Neuro-Normativity; John Bickle 9. Ethics and the Brains of Psychopaths: The Significance of Psychopaths for Ethical and Legal Reasoning; William Hirstein and Katrina Sifferd 10. Memory Traces, Memory Errors,and the Possibility of Neural Lie Detection; Sarah K. Robins PART III 11. Feminist Approaches to Neurocultures; Sigrid Schmitz 12. Non-Reductive Integration in Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Multiple Systems Model and Situated Concepts; Luc Faucher 13. History, Causal Information, and the Neuroscience of Art: Toward a Psycho-Historical Theory; Nicolas Bullot 14. The Architectonics of the Mind's Eye in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism; Warren Neidich

O autorze

Editor: Charles Wolfe.

Contributors: John Bickle, Mississippi State University, USA Nicolas Bullot, Macquarie University, Australia Paco Calvo, University of Murcia, Spain Jean-Claude Dupont, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), researcher at the CHSSC (Centre d'histoire des sciences, des sociétés et des conflits), France Luc Faucher, UQAM, Montréal, Canada Denis Forest, University Paris-Ouest, Nanterre, France William Hirstein, Elmhurst College, Illinois, USA Warren Neidich, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Sarah Robins, University of Kansas, USA Sigrid Schmitz, University of Vienna, Austria Katrina Sifferd, Elmhurst College, USA Jacqueline Sullivan, Western University, Ontario, Canada John Sutton, Macquarie University, Australia John Symons, University of Kansas, USA Kellie Williamson, Macquarie University, Australia