Soul Mind And Brain From Descartes To Cognitive Science

Author : Paolo Pecere
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030514633
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science written by Paolo Pecere and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1317095855
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul written by Mark Graves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195139321
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind as a Scientific Object written by Christina E. Erneling and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606123X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming to Mind written by Lenn E. Goodman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110883384
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Brain, Behavior written by Martin Carrier and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Mind, Brain, Behavior".

Author : Jenny Teichman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317579496
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind and the Soul written by Jenny Teichman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul M. Churchland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531429
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul written by Paul M. Churchland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : South African Science and Religion Forum. Seminar
Publisher : University of South Africa Research Institute for Theology a
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brain, Mind and Soul written by South African Science and Religion Forum. Seminar and published by University of South Africa Research Institute for Theology a. This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147679975X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul Made Flesh written by Carl Zimmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mark Graves
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317095863
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul written by Mark Graves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.