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