Critical Neuroscience and Philosophy: A Scientific Re-Examination of the Mind-Body Problem

ISBN-13: 9783030353537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 300 str.

David Lag Tomasi

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The exact science of the hard matter

2.1 General Aspects

2.2 Examining, Controlling, and Verifying

Chapter 3: Between Psyche and Mind

3.1 Recollection

3.2 Talking to the mind and mind-talking

Chapter 4: Medicine on, of, and off the brain

4.1 Disease and Disorder, Illness and Issue

4.2 To treat, To heal, To cure

Chapter 5: Brain, Culture, and Society

5.1 Context and Situation

5.2 Father Nature, Mother Nurture

Chapter 6: Perception and Cognition

6.1 The mind-body problem: a general overview

6.2 Perceiving, seeing, evidencing, understanding

Chapter 7: Conclusion: Philosophy as basic approach toward Neuroscience

7.1 Preliminary discussion

7.2 The Triple-S Model: Self, Soul, Spirit

O autorze

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).

Blurb

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.