Neuroscience and critique : exploring the limits of the neurological turn / edited by Jan De Vos and Ed Pluth.

Date:
2016
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Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Physical description

vi, 236 pages ; 25 cm

Contents

The brain : a nostalgic dream : some notes on neuroscience and the problem of modern knowledge / Marc De Kesel -- What is critique in the era of the neurosciences? / Jan De Vos -- Who are we, then, if we are indeed our brains? Reconsidering a critical approach to neuroscience / Nima Bassiri -- Neuroscientific dystopia : does naturalism commit a category mistake? / Peter Reynaert -- From global economic change to neuromolecular capitalism / Jessica Pykett -- What is the feminist critique of neuroscience? A call for dissensus studies / Cynthia Kraus -- Brain in the shell : assessing the stakes and the transformative potential of the human brain project / Philipp Haueis and Jan Slaby -- Confession of a weak reductionist : responses to some recent criticisms of my materialism / Adrian Johnston -- The role of biology in the history of psychology : neuropsychoanalysis and the foundation of a mental level of causality / Ariane Bazan -- Embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity / Vittorio Gallese -- Empathy as developmental achievement : beyond embodied simulation / Mark Solms -- The fragile unity of neuroscience / Joseph Dumit.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781138887350
  • 1138887358
  • 9781138887336
  • 1138887331