Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language
By Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: 2007-03-15
Sales Rank: 23321
ISBN / ASIN: 0231140444
EAN: 9780231140447
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
Studio: Columbia University Press
Average Rating: 4
Review:
science intersecting with philosophy
Philosophy is one of the oldest intellectual pursuits. Yet it is only in very recent times that science is starting to provide an underpinning. The status of this is argued in this book. With some of the latest results and trends in neuroscience as the talking point.
The book is formatted with 2 scientists providing views on consciousness, as gleaned from experiments. While the contrary opinions are given by 2 philosophers. With the scientists then given space to issue a reply.
Whatever your own positions on all this, perhaps you can appreciate the excitement in the air. For the first time, philosophy has hard experimental observations to cogit over. And the problem of consciousness is surely one of the fundamental unknowns in science.
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