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Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science - A Critical History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science - A Critical History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This interdisciplinary book ties the historical work of Descartes
to his successors through current research and critical overviews
on the neuroscience of consciousness, the brain, and cognition.
This text is the first historical survey to focus on the cohesions
and discontinuities between historical and contemporary thinkers
working in philosophy, physiology, psychology, and neuroscience.
The book introduces and analyzes early discussions of
consciousness, such as: metaphysical alternatives to scientific
explanations of consciousness and its connection to brain activity;
claims about the possibilities and limits of neuroscientific
accounts of consciousness and cognition; and the proposition of a
"non-reductive naturalism" concerning phenomenal consciousness and
rationality. The author assesses the contributions of early
philosophers and scientists on brain, consciousness and cognition,
among them: Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke,
Newton, Haller, Kant, Fechner, Helmholtz and du Bois-Reymond. The
work of these pioneers is related to that of modern researchers in
physiology, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of mind,
including: Freud, Hilary Putnam, Herbert Feigl, Gerald Edelman,
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers, amongst
others. This text appeals to researchers and advanced students in
the field.
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