The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience

by Bickle, John

• ISBN13: 9780195304787
• ISBN10: 0195304780
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience is a state-of-the-art collection of interdisciplinary research spanning philosophy (of science, mind, and ethics) and current neuroscience. Containing chapters written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in this area, and in some cases co-authored with neuroscientists, this volume reflects both the breadth and depth of current work in this exciting field. Topics include the nature of explanation in neuroscience; whether and how current neuroscience is reductionistic; consequences of current research on the neurobiology of learning and memory, perception and sensation, neurocomputational modeling, and neuroanatomy; the burgeoning field of neuroethics and the neurobiology of motivation that increasingly informs it; implications from neurology and clinical neuropsychology, especially in light of some bizarre symptoms involving misrepresentations of self; the extent and consequences of multiple realization in actual neuroscience; the new field of neuroeudamonia; and the neurophilosophy of subjectivity. This volume will interest philosophers working in numerous fields who wish to see how current neuroscience is being brought to bear directly on philosophical issues. It will also be of interest to neuroscientists who wish to learn how the research programs of some of their colleagues are being enriched by interaction with philosophers, and finally to those working in any interdisciplinary field who wish to see how two seemingly disparate disciplines--one traditional and humanistic, the other new and scientific--are being brought together to both disciplines' mutual benefit.

Author Biography

John Bickle is Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors Editor's

Introduction

Explanation, Reduction, and Methodology in Neuroscientific Practice

Molecules, systems, and behavior: Another view of memory consolidation

Biological clocks: Explaining with models of mechanisms

Methodology and reduction in the behavioral neurosciences: Object exploration as a case study

The Science of Research and the search for molecular mechanisms of cognition

Learning and Memory

The lower bounds of cognition: What do spinal cords reveal?

Lessons for cognitive science from neurogenomics

Neuroscience, learning, and the return to behaviorism

Sensation and Perception

fMRI: A modern cerebrascope? The case of pain

The enactive field, the embedded Neuron

The role of neurobiology in differentiating the senses

Enactivism's vision: Neurocognitive basis or neurocognitively baseless?

Neurocomputation and Neuroanatomy

Space, time, and objects

Neurocomputational models: Theory, application, philosophical consequences

Neuroanatomy and cosmology

Neuroscience of Motivation, Decision Making, and Neuroethics

The emerging theory of motivation

Inference to the best decision

Emergentism at the crossroads of philosophy, neurotechnology, and the enhancement debate

What's neu in neuroethics?

Neurophilosophy and Psychiatry

Confabulations about people and their limbs, present or absent

Delusional experience

The case for animal emotions: Modeling neuropsychiatric disorders

Neurophilosophy

Levels and individual variation: Implications for the multiple realization of psychological properties

Neuro-eudaimonics, or Buddhists lead neuroscientists to the seat of happiness; The neurophilosophy of subjectivity

The neurophilosophy of subjectivity

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