Minding the brain : a guide to philosophy and neuroscience /


Georg Northoff.
Bok Engelsk 2014 Georg. Northoff
Omfang
xi, 581 pages ;
Opplysninger
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: MIND AND BRAIN - FROM PHILOSOPHY THROUGH NEUROSCIENCE TO NEUROPHILOSOPHY -- 1. Philosophy and the Mind - Philosophy of Mind and Phenomenology -- 2. Philosophy and Science - Naturalism -- 3. Mind, Brain and Science - Psychology and Neuroscience -- 4. Brain and Philosophy - Neurophilosophy -- PART II: MIND-BRAIN PROBLEM - FROM PHILOSOPHY OF MIND TO PHILOSOPHY OF BRAIN -- 5. Mental Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem -- 6. Physical and Functional Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem -- 7. Non-mental and Non-physical Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem -- 8. Brain-based Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem -- PART III: PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE - FROM EXPLANATION OF MIND TO EXPLANATION OF BRAIN -- 9. Philosophy of Psychology - Personal Versus Subpersonal Levels of Explanation -- 10. Philosophy of Psychology - Mind and Meaning -- 11. Philosophy of Neuroscience - Explanations, Concepts, and Observer in Neuroscience -- 12. Philosophy of Brain - Characterization of the Brain -- PART IV: NEUROPHILOSOPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS - FROM MIND TO CONSCIOUSNESS -- 13. Arguments against the Reduction of Consciousness to the Brain -- 14. Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) -- 15. Neural Predispositions of Consciousness (NPC) -- 16. Conceptual, Phenomenal, and Methodological Issues in the Investigation of Consciousness -- PART V: NEUROPHILOSOPHY OF SELF - FROM CONSCIOUSNESS TO SELF -- 17. Brain and Self -- 18. Brain and Self-consciousness -- 19. Abnormalities of Self and Brain in Psychiatric Disorders -- 20. Brain and Intersubjectivity -- Epilogue: Is the Brain a Door Opener?.. - "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"--
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ISBN
9780230283541 (hardback)

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