Introduction; C.U.M. Smith and H.A. Whitaker -- Chapter 1. Beginnings: ventricular neuropsychology; C.U.M. Smith -- Chapter 2. Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of Mind and Brain Sciences; William Meehan -- Chapter 3. 'Struck, As It Were, With Madness:' The Phenomenology of Anim
Brain, mind and consciousness in the history of neuroscience
โ Scribed by Smith, Christopher U. M
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 374
- Series
- History philosophy and theory of the life sciences 6
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Introduction
C.U.M.Smith and H.A. Whitaker.- Chapter 1. Beginnings: ventricular neuropsychology
C.U.M.Smith.- Chapter 2. Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of Mind and Brain Sciences
William Meehan.- Chapter 3. 'Struck, As It Were, With Madness:' The Phenomenology of Animal Spirits in the Neurology of Thomas Willis
Kathryn Tabb.- Chapter 4. Hooke's mechanical mind
J.J. MacIntosh.- Chapter 5. Joseph Priestley: An instructive 18th century perspective on the mind-body problem
Alan Beretta.- Chapter 6. Reflections of western thinking on 19th C Ottoman thought: A critique of the 'hard-problem' by Spyridon Mavrogenis
George Anogianakis.- Chapter 7. George Henry Lewes (1817-1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception
Huw Price.- Chapter 8. Herbert Spencer: brain, mind and the 'hard problem'
C.U.M.Smith.- Chapter 9. Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and America Neurology
J Wayne Lazar.- Chapter 10. Emil du Bois-Reymond's Reflections on Consciousness
Gabriel Finkelstein.- Chapter 11. William James and the "Theatre" of Consciousness
Stephanie L. Hawkins.- Chapter 12. The enigmatic deciphering of the neuronal code of word meaning
Andrew C. Papanicolaou.- Chapter 13. Alfred North Whitehead and the history of consciousness
Laura Hyatt Edwards.- Chapter 14. The 'hard problem' and the Cartesian strand in British neurophysiology: Huxley, Foster, Sherrington, Eccles
C.U.M.Smith.- Chapter 15. Is there a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness?
Barry K Ward.- Chapter 16. Consciousness and neuronal microtubules: the Penrose-Hameroff quantum model in retrospect
Eugenio Frixione.- Chapter 17. Zombie Dawn: Slavery and the Self in the Twenty-first Century
David Hawkes.- Chapter 18. Mind and Brain: Toward an Understanding of Dualism
Kristopher Phillips, Alan Beretta and Harry Whitaker.
โฆ Subjects
Brain;Consciousness;Neurosciences;Neurosciences--History;History;Neurosciences -- History
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