Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism

Brains at Work with the World

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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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Utgivningsdatum2014-01-01
Mått140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Antal sidor326
Upplaga2014
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349477586

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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

"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)