Minding the brain
Subtitle: a guide to philosophy and neuroscience
By: Georg Northoff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 581
ISBN-13: 9780230283541
Subjects: Mind-brain identity theory; Philosophy of mind; Neurosciences; Philosophy; Psychology; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology
Description: "This book explores how the relationship between philosophy and the brain can inform neuroscience, the mind-brain problem and debates about consciousness. Written in a lively style with extensive pedagogy to explain complex concepts, this is interesting reading for students and researchers of psychology, neuroscience and philosophy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-546) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: PART I: MIND AND BRAIN - FROM PHILOSOPHY THROUGH NEUROSCIENCE TO NEUROPHILOSOPHY; title: 1. Philosophy and the Mind - Philosophy of Mind and Phenomenology; title: 2. Philosophy and Science - Naturalism; title: 3. Mind, Brain and Science - Psychology and Neuroscience; title: 4. Brain and Philosophy - Neurophilosophy; title: PART II: MIND-BRAIN PROBLEM - FROM PHILOSOPHY OF MIND TO PHILOSOPHY OF BRAIN; title: 5. Mental Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem; title: 6. Physical and Functional Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem; title: 7. Non-mental and Non-physical Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem; title: 8. Brain-based Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem; title: PART III: PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE - FROM EXPLANATION OF MIND TO EXPLANATION OF BRAIN; title: 9. Philosophy of Psychology - Personal Versus Subpersonal Levels of Explanation; title: 10. Philosophy of Psychology - Mind and Meaning; title: 11. Philosophy of Neuroscience - Explanations, Concepts, and Observer in Neuroscience; title: 12. Philosophy of Brain - Characterization of the Brain; title: PART IV: NEUROPHILOSOPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS - FROM MIND TO CONSCIOUSNESS; title: 13. Arguments against the Reduction of Consciousness to the Brain; title: 14. Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC); title: 15. Neural Predispositions of Consciousness (NPC); title: 16. Conceptual, Phenomenal, and Methodological Issues in the Investigation of Consciousness; title: PART V: NEUROPHILOSOPHY OF SELF - FROM CONSCIOUSNESS TO SELF; title: 17. Brain and Self; title: 18. Brain and Self-consciousness; title: 19. Abnormalities of Self and Brain in Psychiatric Disorders; title: 20. Brain and Intersubjectivity; title: Epilogue: Is the Brain a Door Opener?.