In recent decades, issues that reside at the center of
philosophical and psychological inquiry have been absorbed into a
scientific framework variously identified as "brain science,"
"cognitive science," and "cognitive neuroscience." Scholars have
heralded this development as revolutionary, but a revolution
implies an existing method has been overturned in favor of
something new. What long-held theories have been abandoned or
significantly modified in light of cognitive neuroscience?
"Consciousness and Mental Life" questions our present approach
to the study of consciousness and the way modern discoveries either
mirror or contradict understandings reached in the centuries
leading up to our own. Daniel N. Robinson does not wage an attack
on the emerging discipline of cognitive science. Rather, he
provides the necessary historical context to properly evaluate the
relationship between issues of consciousness and neuroscience and
their evolution over time.
Robinson begins with Aristotle and the ancient Greeks and
continues through to Ren? Descartes, David Hume, William James,
Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and
Derek Parfit. Approaching the issue from both a philosophical and a
psychological perspective, Robinson identifies what makes the study
of consciousness so problematic and asks whether cognitive
neuroscience can truly reveal the origins of mental events,
emotions, and preference, or if these occurrences are better
understood by studying the whole person, not just the brain.
Well-reasoned and thoroughly argued, "Consciousness and Mental
Life" corrects many claims made about the success of brain science
and provides a valuable historical context for the study of human
consciousness.
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