Binding: Paperback
Description: In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell 2003) which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive neuroscientists. Their position is then criticized by Daniel Dennett and John Searle two philosophers who have written extensively on the subject and Bennett and Hacker in turn respond. Their impassioned debate encompasses a wide range of central themes: the nature of consciousness the bearer and location of psychological attributes the intelligibility of so - called brain maps and representations the notion of qualia the coherence of the notion of an intentional stance and the relationships between mind brain and body. Clearly argued and thoroughly engaging the authors present fundamentally different conceptions of philosophical method cognitive - neuroscientific explanation and human nature and their exchange will appeal to anyone interested in the relation of mind to brain of psychology to neuroscience of causal to rational explanation and of consciousness to self - consciousness. In his conclusion Daniel Robinson (member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University) explains why this confrontation is so crucial to the understanding of neuroscientific research. The project of cognitive neuroscience he asserts depends on the incorporation of human nature into the framework of science itself. In Robinson's estimation Dennett and Searle fail to support this undertaking; Bennett and Hacker suggest that the project itself might be based on a conceptual mistake. Exciting and challenging Neuroscience and Philosophy is an exceptional introduction to the philosophical problems raised by cognitive neuroscience.
Title: Neuroscience And Philosophy Brain Mind And Language
Author(s): Searle John
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231140454
Pages: 232 Pages, 10 Illus
Publication Date: 4/1/2009
Category: “Neurosciences”; Uyq “Artificial Intelligence” & Following)