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The Human Sciences after the Decade of the Brain brings together exciting new works that address today’s key challenges for a mutual interaction between cognitive neuroscience and the social sciences and humanities. Taking up the methodological and conceptual problems of choosing a neuroscience approach to disciplines such as philosophy, history, ethics and education, the book deepens discussions on a range of epistemological, historical, and sociological questions about the "neuro-turn" in the new millennium. The book’s three sections focus on (i) epistemological questions posed by neurobiologically informed approaches to philosophy and history, (ii) neuroscience’s influence on explanations for social and moral behavior, and (iii) the consequences of the neuro-turn in diverse sectors of social life such as science, education, film, and human self-understanding.
This book is an important resource both for students and scholars of cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology interested in the philosophical, ethical, and societal influences of—and on—their work as well as for students and scholars from the social sciences and humanities interested in neuroscience.
Researchers and advanced students in neuroscience, psychology, and related disciplines interested in the ethical, philosophical, societal, and legal implications of neuroscience; researchers and advanced students from philosophy, sociology, and related disciplines interested in the impact of neuroscience on research in their fields
Part I: Prospects and Limitations of Neuroscience Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Chapter 1. Neurophilosophy or Philosophy of Neuroscience? What Neuroscience and Philosophy Can and Cannot Do for Each Other
Chapter 2. Philosophical Puzzles Evade Empirical Evidence: Some Thoughts and Clarifications Regarding the Relation Between Brain Sciences and Philosophy of Mind
Chapter 3. “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Neuroscience?” Neuroscience’s Impact on Our Notions of Self and Free Will
Chapter 4. Free Will—Between Philosophy and Neuroscience
Chapter 5. Histories of the Brain: Toward a Critical Interaction of the Humanities and Neurosciences
Part II: The Neurosciences of Social Sciences and Ethics
Chapter 6. The Theory of Brain-Sign: A New Model of Brain Operation
Chapter 7. On the Redundancies of “Social Agency”
Chapter 8. Two Kinds of Reverse Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience
Chapter 9. The Neuroscience of Ethics Beyond the Is-Ought Orthodoxy: The Example of the Dual Process Theory of Moral Judgment
Part III: The Neurosciences in Society. Social, Cultural, and Ethical Implications of the Neuro-Turn
Chapter 10. Effects of the Neuro-Turn: The Neural Network as a Paradigm for Human Self-Understanding
Chapter 11. Brain, Art, Salvation. On the Traditional Character of the Neuro-Hype
Chapter 12. “A Mind Plague on Both Your Houses”: Imagining the Impact of the Neuro-Turn on the Neurosciences
Chapter 13. Being a Good External Frontal Lobe: Parenting Teenage Brains
Chapter 14. Toward Neuroscience Literacy?—Theoretical and Practical Considerations
Chapter 15. “Strangers” in Neuroscientific Research
Chapter 16. At the Push of a Button, Narrative Strategies and the Image of Deep Brain Stimulation
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