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Neuroexistentialism - Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (Paperback): Gregg Caruso, Owen Flanagan

Neuroexistentialism - Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (Paperback)

Gregg Caruso, Owen Flanagan

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Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to support a foundation of being. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir, developed in response to similar realizations about the overly optimistic Enlightenment vision of reason and the common good. The third-wave of existentialism, a new existentialism, developed in response to advances in the neurosciences that threaten the last vestiges of an immaterial soul or self. Given the increasing explanatory and therapeutic power of neuroscience, the mind no longer stands apart from the world to serve as a foundation of meaning. This produces foundational anxiety. In Neuroexistentialism, a group of contributors that includes some of the world's leading philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars, explores the anxiety caused by third-wave existentialism and possible responses to it. Together, these essays tackle our neuroexistentialist predicament, and explore what the mind sciences can tell us about morality, love, emotion, autonomy, consciousness, selfhood, free will, moral responsibility, law, the nature of criminal punishment, meaning in life, and purpose.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2018
Editors: Gregg Caruso (Associate Professor of Philosophy) • Owen Flanagan (Duke Professor of Philosophy and Neurobiology)
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-046073-0
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
LSN: 0-19-046073-3
Barcode: 9780190460730

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