From Aristotle to Cognitive Neuroscience

✍ Scribed by Grant Gillett

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From Aristotle to Cognitive Neuroscience identifies the strong philosophical tradition that runs from Aristotle, through phenomenology, to the current analytical philosophy of mind and consciousness.

In a fascinating account, the author integrates the history of philosophy of mind and phenomenology with recent discoveries on the neuroscience of conscious states. The reader can trace the development of a neuro-philosophical synthesis through the work of Aristotle, Kant, Wittgenstein, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Brentano and Hughlings-Jackson, among others, and so explore contemporary philosophical puzzles surrounding consciousness and its relation to cerebral synchrony and connectedness.

Of interest to students and scholars of neuroethics, neurophilosophy and philosophy of mind, as well as philosophy of psychiatry, From Aristotle to Neuroscience demonstrates the real essence of consciousness as it increasingly connects with philosophy, law, morality, aesthetics, and spirituality.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Second Nature and Naturalism (Grant Gillett)....Pages 1-10
From Aristotle to Consciousness and Intentionality (Grant Gillett)....Pages 11-44
Evolutionary Neurology and the Human Soul (Grant Gillett)....Pages 45-72
Diverse Dissolutions of Consciousness (Grant Gillett)....Pages 73-106
Consciousness, Value, and Human Nature (Grant Gillett)....Pages 107-121
Second Nature, the Will, and Human Neuroscience (Grant Gillett)....Pages 123-133
Consciousness: Metaphysical Speculations and Supposed Distinctions (Grant Gillett)....Pages 135-150
Back Matter ....Pages 151-166

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind; Phenomenology; Philosophy of Man; History of Philosophy