White and Black Posthumanism

ISBN-13: 9783990432242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str.

Martin Kurthen

Opis

This book imbeds post-humanism in the developments of psychology, neurosciences and the theory of cultural evolution. It brings light to the post-humanist scenario by focusing on the aspects of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cognitive science.

O autorze

Martin Kurthen studied medicine in Bochum and Bonn (Germany). He received his medical doctorate in 1985 for his dissertation on the concept of pain in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He has worked at the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Epileptology of the University of Bonn since 1986. His work has concentrated on the fields of epileptology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy. He received his postdoctoral qualification for clinical neuropsychology in 1992 for his habilitation treatise on "Neurosemantics". He has been an Associate Professor for neurology and clinical neuropsychology at the University of Bonn since 1997, and Senior Neurologist at the Swiss Epilepsy Center in Zurich since 2005. He is the author of numerous journal articles and other publications on the analytic philosophy of mind, depth psychology, epileptology, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology.