Neuroscience and Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Maxwell Bennett is professor of neuroscience and university chair at the University of Sydney and scientific director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute. His most recent books are History of the Synapse! The Idea of Consciousness! and Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience! which he coauthored with Peter Hacker.Daniel Dennett is Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of numerous books including Freedom Evolves! Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon! and Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life.Peter Hacker is a fellow of St. John's College! Oxford. The leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein! his seventeen books include! most recently! Human Nature: The Categorical Framework! Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience! which he coauthored with Maxwell Bennett! and Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies.John Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California! Berkeley. He is the author of sixteen books! including Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will! Language! and Political Power! Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language! and Mind: A Brief Introduction. His works have been translated into twenty-one languages! and in 2004 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Klappentext Subtitled! "Brain! Mind & Philosophy". An expanded version of the thought-provoking exchange on the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience that took place at the 2005 meeting of the American Philosophical Association. It is left to the reader! as it was left to the audience of the original debate! to decide which conception presented is appropriate. Zusammenfassung Presents fundamentally different conceptions of philosophical method, cognitive-neuroscientific explanation, and human nature. This book discusses the clash of philosophers and neuroscientists over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. It is useful for those interested in the relation of mind to brain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction! by Daniel Robinson The Argument Selections from Philosophical Foundations of NeuroscienceNeuroscience and Philosophy! by Maxwell R. Bennett The Rebuttals "Philosophy as Naive Anthropology: Comment on Bennett and Hacker!" by Daniel Dennett"Putting Consciousness Back in the Brain: Reply to Bennett and Hacker! Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience!" by John Searle Reply to the Rebuttals "The Conceptual Presuppositions of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reply to Critics!" by Maxwell R. Bennett and Peter M. S. Hacker Epilogue! by Maxwell R. Bennett"Still Looking: Science and Philosophy in Pursuit of Prince Reason!" by Daniel Robinson Notes ...

Klappentext
Subtitled, "Brain, Mind & Philosophy". An expanded version of the thought-provoking exchange on the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience that took place at the 2005 meeting of the American Philosophical Association. It is left to the reader, as it was left to the audience of the original debate, to decide which conception presented is appropriate.


Zusammenfassung
Presents fundamentally different conceptions of philosophical method, cognitive-neuroscientific explanation, and human nature. This book discusses the clash of philosophers and neuroscientists over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. It is useful for those interested in the relation of mind to brain.

Inhalt
Introduction, by Daniel Robinson The Argument Selections from Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience Neuroscience and Philosophy, by Maxwell R. Bennett The Rebuttals "Philosophy as Naive Anthropology: Comment on Bennett and Hacker," by Daniel Dennett "Putting Consciousness Back in the Brain: Reply to Bennett and Hacker, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience," by John Searle Reply to the Rebuttals "The Conceptual Presuppositions of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reply to Critics," by Maxwell R. Bennett and Peter M. S. Hacker Epilogue, by Maxwell R. Bennett "Still Looking: Science and Philosophy in Pursuit of Prince Reason," by Daniel Robinson Notes

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