Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory: Thinking the Body Politic

ISBN-13: 9780415782029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 294 str.

F Vander Valk

Opis

This book provides an important overview and valuable new perspectives on what political theory can bring to the debates about climate change.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: History and Concepts  1. On the Growing Intellectual Authority of Neuroscience for Political and Moral Theory: Sketch for a Genealogy Maurizio Meloni  2. Neuroscience as Applied Hermenutics: Towards a Critical Neuroscience of Political Theory Jan Slaby, Philipp Haueis and Suparna Choudhury  3. Descartes on Moral Judgement and the Poeer of the Passions Patricia Easton  4. Unpacking Emotional Baggage in Political Inquiry John G. Gunnell  Part 2: Neuroscience and Political Thinkers  5. Brain Sculpting as Moral Practice: A Neuro-Aristotelian Approach Leslie Paul Thiele  6. Hobbes, Prudence and Neuroscienve: Early Modern Strategies for Negotiating Contemporary Subjecctivity James Martel  7. Think Big: Toward a Grand Neuropolitics - or, Why I am Not An Immanent Naturalist or Vital Materialis Adrian Johnston  8. The Neuropolitical Habitus of Resonant Receptive Democracy Romand Coles  Part 3: Issues in Neuroscience and Political Theory  9. Does Deliberation Make You Angry? Neuroscience and Theories of Deliberative Democracy Marlene Sokolon  10. Bounded Mirroring: Joint Action and Group Membership in Political Theory and Cognitive Neuroscience Machiel Keestra  11. The Extension of Political Subjectivity Frank Vander Valk  12. The Challenge of Gender Research in Neuroscience Emily Ngubia Kuria