The human sciences after the decade of the brain /
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,...
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Table of 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.