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Minding the Brain Georg Northoff

Minding the Brain By Georg Northoff

Minding the Brain by Georg Northoff

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This book explores how the relationship between philosophy and the brain can inform neuroscience, the mind-brain problem and debates about consciousness. Written in a lively style with extensive pedagogy to explain complex concepts, this is interesting reading for students and researchers of psychology, neuroscience and philosophy.

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Minding the Brain: A Guide to Philosophy and Neuroscience by Georg Northoff

Neuroscience has raised many questions for philosophy and its traditional focus on the mind, but what does the emerging field of neurophilosophy teach us about the relationship between mind and brain? How have the new debates transformed our understanding of consciousness, the self and free will?

Georg Northoff is a world-leading expert in this exciting area, and in Minding the Brain he provides a comprehensive introduction to non-reductive neurophilosophy, charting the developments of the discipline and applying its ideas to the debates that have captivated philosophers for centuries.

Minding the Brain:
* employs extensive pedagogy to help the reader get to grips with complex concepts
* takes a transdisciplinary approach unifying science, psychology and philosophy

Unearthing new ways to tackle age-old debates, Minding the Brain is a stimulating text for
anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, the cognitive sciences and neuroscience.

Minding the Brain Reviews

This will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of consciousness. It is wonderful to see an accomplished neuroscientist and philosopher craft such a comprehensive, and sorely needed, account of this interdisciplinary topic. - Jakob Hohwy, Philosophy & Cognition Lab, Monash University, Australia With great clarity and panache, Northoff abstracts the history of consciousness and the biology of mind into crystal clear arguments that all students of philosophy and neuroscience will appreciate. This superb text will become a treasured resource for all who wish to understand both historical and future trajectories of reasoning about our mental apparatus. - Jaak Panksepp, Professor of Neuroscience and Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science, Washington State University, USA Minding the Brain is a very rich work of original synthesis and integration. In clear and inspired prose Northoff guides the reader through some of the hottest issues in cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind. A must read. - Vittorio Gallese MD, Professor of Physiology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy

About Georg Northoff

Georg Northoff is Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Canada. His neuroscientific research focuses on self and consciousness using brain imaging, and he is also one of the leading forces behind the development of neurophilosophy and its application in psychiatry and philosophy. Recent major works include a two volume book on theory of brain function including coding (Volume I) and consciousness (Volume II).

Table of Contents

Introduction.- PART I: MIND AND BRAIN FROM PHILOSOPHY THROUGH NEUROSCIENCE TO NEUROPHILOSOPHY 1. Philosophy and the Mind Philosophy of Mind and Phenomenology.- 2. Philosophy and Science Naturalism.- 3. Mind, Brain and Science Psychology and Neuroscience.- 4. Brain and Philosophy Neurophilosophy.- PART II: MIND-BRAIN PROBLEM FROM PHILOSOPHY OF MIND TO PHILOSOPHY OF BRAIN 5. Mental Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem.- 6. Physical and Functional Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem.- 7. Non-mental and Non-physical Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem.- 8. Brain-based Approaches to the Mind-brain Problem.- PART III: PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE FROM EXPLANATION OF MIND TO EXPLANATION OF BRAIN 9. Philosophy of Psychology Personal Versus Subpersonal Levels of Explanation.- 10. Philosophy of Psychology Mind and Meaning.- 11. Philosophy of Neuroscience Explanations, Concepts, and Observer in Neuroscience.- 12. Philosophy of Brain Characterization of the Brain.- PART IV: NEUROPHILOSOPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM MIND TO CONSCIOUSNESS 13. Arguments against the Reduction of Consciousness to the Brain.- 14. Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC).- 15. Neural Predispositions of Consciousness (NPC).- 16. Conceptual, Phenomenal, and Methodological Issues in the Investigation of Consciousness.- PART V: NEUROPHILOSOPHY OF SELF FROM CONSCIOUSNESS TO SELF 17. Brain and Self.- 18. Brain and Self-consciousness.- 19. Abnormalities of Self and Brain in Psychiatric Disorders.- 20. Brain and Intersubjectivity.- Epilogue: Is the Brain a Door Opener?.

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NLS9780230283558
9780230300507
0230300502
Minding the Brain: A Guide to Philosophy and Neuroscience by Georg Northoff
Georg Northoff
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2014-04-16
300
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