Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience

Dr Jay Schulkin is a Research Professor in the Department of Neuroscience as well as a member at the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition, both at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of a number of books, including Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function (2000), Naturalism and Pragmatism (2012), and Reflections on the Musical Mind (2013). He received his PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Holmes' Critical Experience in War.- 3. Experience, Inference and Surviving.- 4. Holmes, Pragmatism and Nature.- 5. Duty, Surviving, Social Contract.- 6. Emersonian Sensibilities.- 7. Bounded Choice, Human Freedom and Problem Solving.- 8. Naturalizing Decision-Making.- 9. Ethics, Body Politic, and Neuroscience.- 10. Neuroscientific Considerations and the Law.- 11. Conclusion.