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Neurophilosophy at Work Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)

Neurophilosophy at Work By Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)

Neurophilosophy at Work by Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)


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In this collection of essays, Paul Churchland explores the unfolding impact of the several empirical sciences of the mind. Representing Churchland's most recent research, they continue his research program, launched over thirty years ago, which has evolved into the field of neurophilosophy.

Neurophilosophy at Work Summary

Neurophilosophy at Work by Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)

Churchland explores the unfolding impact of the several empirical sciences of the mind, especially cognitive neurobiology and computational neuroscience on a variety of traditional issues central to the discipline of philosophy. Representing Churchland's most recent research, they continue his research program, launched over thirty years ago which has evolved into the field of neurophilosophy. Topics such as the nature of Consciousness, the nature of cognition and intelligence, the nature of moral knowledge and moral reasoning, neurosemantics or world-representation in the brain, the nature of our subjective sensory qualia and their relation to objective science, and the future of philosophy itself are here addressed in a lively, graphical, and accessible manner. Throughout the volume, Churchland's view that science is as important as philosophy is emphasised. Several of the color figures in the volume will allow the reader to perform some novel phenomenological experiments on his/her own visual system.

Neurophilosophy at Work Reviews

"I recommend this book to those beginning their work in the philosophy of mind, or to those who, though experienced philosophers of mind, are ready to revisit Churchland's neurophilosophy." --Andrew Fenton, Dalhousie University: Philosophy in Review

About Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)

Paul Churchland holds the Valtz Chair of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. One of the most distinguished philosophers at work today, he has received fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Canada Council, and the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. A former president of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), he is editor and author of many articles and books, most recently The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul and On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 19871997 (with Patricia Churchland).

Table of Contents

1. Catching consciousness in a recurrent network; 2. Functionalism at forty: a critical perspective; 3. Toward a cognitive neurobiology of the moral virtues; 4. Rules, know-how, and the future of moral cognition; 5. Science, religion, and American educational policy; 6. What happens to reliabilism when it is liberated from the propositional attitudes; 7. On the nature of intelligence: Turing, Church, von Neumann, and the brain; 8. Neurosemantics: on the mapping of minds and the portrayal of worlds; 9. Chimerical colors: some phenomenological predictions from cognitive neuroscience; 10. On the reality (and diversity) of objective colors; 11. Into the brain: where philosophy should go from here.

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GOR013713674
9780521864725
0521864720
Neurophilosophy at Work by Paul Churchland (University of California, San Diego)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2007-04-09
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