Soul Mind And Brain From Descartes To Cognitive Science

Author : Paolo Pecere
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030514631

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Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science by Paolo Pecere Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Graves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317095859

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Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul by Mark Graves Pdf

Does science argue against the existence of the human soul? Many scientists and scholars believe the whole is more than the sum of the parts. This book uses information and systems theory to describe the "more" that does not reduce to the parts. One sees this in the synapses”or apparently empty gaps between the neurons in one's brain”where informative relationships give rise to human mind, culture, and spirituality. Drawing upon the disciplines of cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience, general systems theory, pragmatic philosophy, and Christian theology, Mark Graves reinterprets the traditional doctrine of the soul as form of the body to frame contemporary scientific study of the human soul.

Author : Christina E. Erneling,David Martel Johnson,Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science David M Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195139327

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The Mind as a Scientific Object by Christina E. Erneling,David Martel Johnson,Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science David M Johnson Pdf

This book argues that all the cognitive science disciplines are not equally able to provide answers to ontological questions about the mind, but rather that only neurophysiology and cultural psychology are suited to answer these questions."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lenn E. Goodman,D. Gregory Caramenico
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226061238

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Coming to Mind by Lenn E. Goodman,D. Gregory Caramenico Pdf

How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain’s rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal wisp but a lively subject, emergent from the body but inadequately described in its terms. Rooted in some of the richest philosophical and intellectual traditions of Western and Eastern philosophy, psychology, literature, and the arts and the latest findings of cognitive psychology and brain science—Coming to Mind is a subtle manifesto of a new humanism and an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the human person. Drawing on new and classical understandings of perception, consciousness, memory, agency, and creativity, Goodman and Caramenico frame a convincing argument for a dynamic and integrated self capable of language, thought, discovery, caring, and love.

Author : Martin Carrier,Jürgen Mittelstraß
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110883381

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Mind, Brain, Behavior by Martin Carrier,Jürgen Mittelstraß Pdf

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Author : South African Science and Religion Forum. Seminar
Publisher : University of South Africa Research Institute for Theology a
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112340448

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Brain, Mind and Soul by South African Science and Religion Forum. Seminar Pdf

Author : Paul M. Churchland
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262531429

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The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul by Paul M. Churchland Pdf

This work summarizes results from neuroscience and recent work with artificial neural networks that together suggest a unified set of answers to questions about how the brain actually works; how it sustains a thinking, feeling, dreaming self; and how it sustains a self-conscious person.

Author : Jenny Teichman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317579496

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The Mind and the Soul by Jenny Teichman Pdf

The concepts of mind and soul have occupied the thoughts of philosophers throughout the ages and have given rise to numerous conflicting theories. This book provides an incisive and stimulating introduction to central tropics in the philosophy of mind. The author writes about the differences and connections between the ideas of ‘mind’ and ‘soul’ and about the metaphysical issues of Dualism, Solipsism, Behaviourism and Materialism. In the course of her account she discusses the arguments of several philosophers including Plato, Descartes, Wittgenstein, Ryle and Hume. Review of the original edition, 1974: "It is clear, incisive and unidiosyncratic. Issues and theories are discussed simply yet without serious distortion or vapidity, and the book is full of argument.’ – Stewart Candish, Mind

Author : John Sutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521591945

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Philosophy and Memory Traces by John Sutton Pdf

This study offers interpretations of theories of memory and the body from Descartes to Coleridge.

Author : Mark C. Baker,Stewart Goetz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441152244

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The Soul Hypothesis by Mark C. Baker,Stewart Goetz Pdf

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Author : Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0199284946

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Descartes's Theory of Mind by Desmond M. Clarke Pdf

Descartes is possibly the most famous of all writers on the mind, but his theory of mind has been almost universally misunderstood, because his philosophy has not been seen in the context of his scientific work. Desmond Clarke offers a radical and convincing rereading, undoing the received perception of Descartes as the chief defender of mind/body dualism. For Clarke, the key is to interpret his philosophical efforts as an attempt to reconcile his scientific pursuits with the theologically orthodox views of his time.

Author : Mark Graves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317095866

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Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul by Mark Graves Pdf

Does science argue against the existence of the human soul? Many scientists and scholars believe the whole is more than the sum of the parts. This book uses information and systems theory to describe the "more" that does not reduce to the parts. One sees this in the synapses”or apparently empty gaps between the neurons in one's brain”where informative relationships give rise to human mind, culture, and spirituality. Drawing upon the disciplines of cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience, general systems theory, pragmatic philosophy, and Christian theology, Mark Graves reinterprets the traditional doctrine of the soul as form of the body to frame contemporary scientific study of the human soul.

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781476799759

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Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer Pdf

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century England unfolds against a turbulent backdrop of civil war, the Great Fire of London, and plague. At the beginning of that chaotic century, no one knew how the brain worked or even what it looked like intact. But by the century's close, even the most common conceptions and dominant philosophies had been completely overturned, supplanted by a radical new vision of man, God, and the universe. Presiding over the rise of this new scientific paradigm was the founder of modern neurology, Thomas Willis, a fascinating, sympathetic, even heroic figure at the center of an extraordinary group of scientists and philosophers known as the Oxford circle. Chronicled here in vivid detail are their groundbreaking revelations and the often gory experiments that first enshrined the brain as the physical seat of intelligence -- and the seat of the human soul. Soul Made Flesh conveys a contagious appreciation for the brain, its structure, and its many marvelous functions, and the implications for human identity, mind, and morality.

Author : Timo Kaitaro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004507241

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Language, Culture and Cognition from Descartes to Lewes by Timo Kaitaro Pdf

The monograph tells a different story on the history of modern philosophy: the narrative is no longer centred on the question whether knowledge results from experience or reason, but whether experience and reason are in fact possible without language.

Author : Charles T. Wolfe,Paolo Pecere,Antonio Clericuzio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031070365

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Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy by Charles T. Wolfe,Paolo Pecere,Antonio Clericuzio Pdf

This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It is of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories.