The human sciences after the decade of the brain / edited by Jon Leefmann, Elisabeth Hildt. -- London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, c2017 .—(59.83/H918) |
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
I
PROSPECTS AND LIMITATIONS OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES
1. Neurophilosophy or Philosophy of
Neuroscience? What Neuroscience and Philosophy Can and Cannot Do for Each Other
2. Philosophical Puzzles Evade Empirical
Evidence: Some Thoughts and Clarifications Regarding the Relation Between Brain
Sciences and Philosophy of Mind
3. "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad
Neuroscience?" Neuroscience's Impact on Our Notions of Self and Free Will
4. Free Will
Between Philosophy and Neuroscience
5. Histories of the Brain: Toward a Critical
Interaction of the Humanities and Neurosciences
II THE
NEUROSCIENCES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ETHICS
6. The Theory of Brain-Sign: A New Model of
Brain Operation
7. On the Redundancies of "Social
Agency"
8. Two Kinds of Reverse Inference in
Cognitive Neuroscience
9. The Neuroscience of Ethics Beyond the
Is-Ought Orthodoxy: The Example of the Dual Process Theory of Moral Judgment
III THE
NEUROSCIENCES IN SOCIETY. SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE
NEURO-TURN
10. Effects of the Neuro-Tum: The Neural
Network as a Paradigm for Human Self-Understanding
11. Brain, Art, Salvation. On the
Traditional Character of the Neuro-Hype
12. "A Mind Plague on Both Your
Houses": Imagining the Impact of the Neuro-Tum on the Neurosciences
13. Being a Good External Frontal Lobe:
Parenting Teenage Brains
14. Toward Neuroscience
Literacy?--Theoretical and Practical Considerations
15. "Strangers" in Neuroscientific
Research
16. At the Push of a Button, Narrative
Strategies and the Image of Deep Brain Stimulation
Author Index
Subject Index