| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- I. Prospects and limitations of neuroscience research in the humanities and social sciences. Neurophilosophy or philosophy of neuroscience? : what neuroscience and philosophy can and cannot do for each other / Michael Jungert -- Philosophical puzzles evade empirical evidence : some thoughts and clarifications regarding the relation between brain sciences and philosophy of mind / Işik Sarihan -- "Who's afraid of the big bad neuroscience?" : neuroscience's impact on our notions of self and free will / Rui Vieira da Cunha and João Bettencourt Relvas -- Free will -- between philosophy and neuroscience / Anna Drozdzewska -- Histories of the brain : toward a critical interaction of the humanities and neurosciences / Mattia Della Rocca -- II. The neurosciences of social sciences and ethics. The theory of brain-sign : a new model of brain operation / Philip Clapson -- On the redundancies of "social agency" / Alexandros Tillas -- Two kinds of reverse inference in Cognitive neuroscience / Guillermo del Pinal and Marco J. Nathan -- The neuroscience of ethics beyond the is-ought orthodoxy : the example of the dual process theory of moral judgment / Nadia El Eter -- III. The neurosciences in society : social, cultural, and ethical implications of the neuro-turn. Effects of the neuro-turn : the neural network as a paradigm for human self-understanding / Yvonne Förster -- Brain, art, salvation : on the traditional character of the neuro-hype / Gerd Grübler -- "A mind plague on both your houses" : imagining the impact of the neuro-turn on the neurosciences / Melissa M. Littlefield -- Being a good external frontal lobe : parenting teenage brains / Ties van de Werff -- Toward neuroscience literacy? : theoretical and practical considerations / Alexander Bergmann, Anne Biehl and Jörg Zabel -- "Strangers" in neuroscientific research / Berit Bringedal, Markus Christen, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Hironori Matsuzaki and Alberto Rábano -- At the push of a button, narrative strategies and the image of deep brain stimulation / Oonagh Hayes |
| Summary |
This book brings together new works that address today's key challenges for a mutual interaction between cognitive neuroscience and the social sciences and humanities. It addresses the methodological and conceptual problems of choosing a neuroscience approach to disciplines such as philosophy, history, ethics and education and examines a range of epistemological, historical, and sociological questions about the "neuro-turn" in the new millennium |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognitive neuroscience.
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Human beings.
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Humans
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Homo sapiens (species)
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77.50 psychophysiology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology.
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Cognitive neuroscience
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Neurobiologie
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Neuropsychologie
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Kognitive Psychologie
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Kognitiver Prozess
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Interdisziplinäre Forschung
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leefmann, Jon, editor
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Hildt, Elisabeth, editor.
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| ISBN |
0128042605 |
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9780128042601 |
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