Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism [electronic resource] : Brains at Work with the World /
Solymosi, T.editor.
Shook, J.editor.
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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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Part I Pragmatism, Philosophy, and theBrain; 1 Neuropragmatism and theReconstruction of Scientific andHumanistic Worldviews 1; 2 Keeping the Pragmatism inNeuropragmatism; 3 How Computational NeuroscienceRevealed that the Pragmatists WereRight; 4 Pragmatism, Cognitive Capacityand Brain Function; Part II Cognition, Emotion, and theWorld; 5 The End of the Debate overExtended Cognition; 6 Knowing and the Known: BrainScience and an EmpiricallyResponsible Epistemology
7 Dewey's Rejection of the Emotion/Expression DistinctionPart III Creativity, Education, andApplication; 8 Finding Unapparent Connections:How Our Hominin AncestorsEvolved Creativity by SolvingPractical Problems; 9 Neuropragmatism andApprenticeship: A Model forEducation; 10 A Neuropragmatist Framework forChildhood Education: IntegratingPragmatism and Neuroscienceto Actualize Article 29 of the UNChild Convention; Part IV Ethics, Neuroscience, andPossibility; 11 Pragmatism and the Contributionof Neuroscience to Ethics; 12 Pragmatist Ethics: A DynamicalTheory Based on ActiveResponsibility
13 Moral First Aid for a NeuroscientificAgeIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive psychology.
Psychology.
Neurosciences.
Pragmatism.
Philosophy of Mind.
Cognitive Psychology.
General Psychology.
Neurosciences.
Pragmatism.