Being and becoming : a guide to act in the theatre of existence / / Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Vera Nenadovic |
Autore | Perez Velazquez Jose Luis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
Disciplina | 612.801 |
Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - Philosophy
Jo (Psicologia) Identitat (Psicologia) Neuropsicologia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
ISBN | 3-030-78264-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Why You Should Read This Book -- Part I: The Neuroscience Perspective - Where Is My Self? -- Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Self -- 1.1 Perception Is Everything -- 1.2 The Usefulness of Brains -- 1.3 Cognition Without a Brain: The "Thinking" Slime Mould -- 1.4 A Brief Tour Through the Brain, for the Non-specialist Tourist -- 1.5 The Cognitive Powers of a Worm and its Extremely Primeval Selfhood -- 1.6 On the Essence of Selves: Properties All We Perceive -- 1.7 The Personal Identity of Animals: A Self Through the Looking Glass -- 1.7.1 The Mirror Test -- 1.8 Of Animals and Babies: The Development of Self-Awareness in Humans -- 1.8.1 The Body in the Brain -- 1.8.2 Our Starting Consciousness in Our Early Times -- Chapter 2: The Origins and the Fallacy of a Central Commander in the Brain: The Emergence of Agency and the Demise of the Concept of Free Will -- 2.1 Incorrect Body Perceptions: Illusions of Ownership and Out-of-Body Experiences -- 2.1.1 The Mind Out of the Body: Out-of-Body Experiences -- 2.1.2 A Mini Science Project: Elucidating the Intriguing Phenomenon of OBEs in Blind Individuals -- 2.2 Free Will, or What Is Free in that Will? -- 2.2.1 The Making of Choices: In Search of the Last Ventriloquist -- 2.2.2 The Will in Epileptic Patients: What Seizures Reveal About Volition -- Postscript to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: The Strange World of Split-brain Patients: In Search of the Interpreter of Our Actions -- 3.1 Closing the Coffin of Free Will -- 3.1.1 A Cry for Freedom -- Chapter 4: Dissociative Identity Disorders. Are Multiple Personalities Ever Lonely, or Can a Psychiatrist Charge Twice a Person with Dual Personality? -- Chapter 5: The Enduring Self, or How to Annihilate the Self -- Chapter 6: A Recipe for High Cognition: Are Consciousness and Self-awareness a Matter of Numbers?.
Chapter 7: Demystifying Consciousness -- 7.1 On Emergence -- 7.1.1 A Criticism and a Reply -- 7.2 Perception is Personal: The Essence and Source of the Mystery -- 7.2.1 Postscript to Part I -- Part II: The Biophysics Perspective - What Is My Life? -- Chapter 8: A Recipe for Interesting Things to Occur -- 8.1 Preparing to Cook Life -- 8.1.1 Global Regularity From Local Mess: The Beginnings of the Living -- 8.1.2 Noisy Surroundings: When Noise Really Makes Sense -- 8.1.3 A Fluctuating World -- Chapter 9: Let There Be Life -- 9.1 Molecular Crowding: A Tale of the Most Probable -- 9.2 Biological Compartmentalisation: Good Borders Make Good Neighbours -- 9.3 Clarifying the Entropic Fallacy -- 9.3.1 And Furthermore, Clarifying Other Closest Relatives of Entropy -- 9.4 And Yet Another Fallacy: (Wo)Man and Machine -- 9.5 The Dance of the Genes -- Chapters 10: The Special Ones -- Chapter 11: The Enduring Life -- Chapter 12: And Why There Is Something Instead of Nothing -- 12.1 Postscript to Part II -- Part III: The Philosophical Perspective - How Do I Experience Reality? -- Chapter 13: The Self and Consciousness Throughout History -- Chapter 14: The Power of Contemplation: Explorations on the Self and Consciousness in the Buddhist Tradition -- Chapter 15: Shrinking the Self -- Chapter 16: Naturalising Death: The Ultimate Becoming -- Chapter 17: Law and Neuroscience: The Impact of Brain Research on Criminal Justice -- 17.1 Postscript to Part III -- Chapter 18: Final Conclusions -- References -- Index. |
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Perez Velazquez Jose Luis | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Critical Neuroscience and Philosophy : A Scientific Re-Examination of the Mind-Body Problem / / by David Låg Tomasi |
Autore | Tomasi David Låg |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina |
612.801
612.8 |
Soggetto topico |
Critical psychology
Neurosciences Philosophy of mind Cognitive psychology Critical Psychology Philosophy of Mind Cognitive Psychology |
ISBN | 3-030-35354-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Exact Science of the Hard Matter -- 3. Between Psyche and Mind -- 4. Medicine on, of, and off the Brain.-5. Brain, Culture, Society -- 6. Perception and Cognition -- 7. Conclusion: Philosophy as Basic Approach Toward Neuroscience. |
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Tomasi David Låg | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Medicina more mechanico : la fisiologia di Descartes / Loana Liccioli |
Autore | LICCIOLI, Loana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bologna : Archetipolibri, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 214 p. ; 21 cm |
Disciplina | 612.801 |
Collana | Baricentri filosofici |
Soggetto topico | Neurofisiologia - Teorie [di] Descartes, René |
ISBN | 978-88-66330-04-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNISA-990001872030203316 |
LICCIOLI, Loana | ||
Bologna : Archetipolibri, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Neural mechanisms : new challenges in the philosophy of neuroscience / / edited by Fabrizio Calzavarini, Marco Viola |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VI, 506 p. 36 illus., 11 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 612.801 |
Collana | Studies in Brain and Mind |
Soggetto topico | Neurosciences - Philosophy |
ISBN | 3-030-54092-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part 1: Explanation and prediction -- Chapter 2. Bayesian Explanation in Neuroscience (David Kaplan, Chris Hewitson) -- Chapter 3. Your Brain is Like a Computer: Function, Analogy, Simplification (Mazviita Chirimuuta) -- Chapter 4. Circuital and developmental explanations for the cortex (Alessio Plebe) -- Chapter 5. Prediction and Topological Models in Cognitive Neuroscience (Stanely Gessell, De Brigard Geib) -- Chapter 6. Miscomputation in Computational Psychiatry (Matteo Colombo) -- Part 2: New concepts and techniques -- Chapter 8. Evolving Concepts of “Hierarchy” in Systems Neuroscience (Daniel Burnston and Philipp Haueis) -- Chapter 9. Neural reuse is a general mechanism, but Neural Darwinism is a fundamental theory (Luis Favela) -- Chapter 10. Evaluating the Revolutionary Status of Innovations in Network Analysis: Conceptual Ambiguity and Instability as Signs of Progress in Cognitive Neuroscience (Jessey Wright) -- Chapter 11. What does neural architecture tell us about human nature? (Charles Rathkopf) -- Chapter 12. Is there a proper recipe for cumulative neuroscience? (Jacqueline Sullivan) -- Part 3: Metaphysical challenges -- Chapter 13. The Mind-Body Problem 3.0 (Marco Nathan) -- Chapter 14. Psychoneural Isomorphism: Metaphysics, Heuristics, and Robustness (Alfredo Vernazzani) -- Chapter 15. Folk psychological and neurocognitive ontologies: incompatible or incommensurable? (Joe Dewhurst) -- Chapter 16. (Gualtiero Piccinini) -- Part 4: Mechanisms -- Chapter 17. On mechanistic triad: How Do Producing, Underlying and Maintaining Mechanisms Connect? (Lena Kästner) -- Chapter 18. Constraints on Localization and Decomposition as Explanatory Strategies in the Biological Sciences 2.0 (Michael Silberstein) -- Chapter 19. Unfolding the mechanisms of conscious experience (Matteo Grasso) -- Chapter 20. Contrast and Compare: How to choose the relevant details for a mechanistic expla-nation -- Part 5: Bodily representations -- Chapter 21. Representation versus Transformation in Bodily Representation (Colin Klein and Peter Clutton) -- Chapter 22. Categorically perceiving motor actions (Chiara Brozzo) -- Chapter 23. Mechanisms of Embodiment (Hong Yu Wong). |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Neurofisiologia cartesiana / Franco Aurelio Meschini |
Autore | Meschini, Franco Aurelio |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Firenze : L. S. Olschki, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 158 p. ; 24 cm. |
Disciplina |
194
612.801 |
Collana | Biblioteca di Nuncius - Studi e testi / Olschki ; 29. |
Soggetto topico |
Descartes, Rene - Neurofisiologia
Neurofisiologia - Teorie |
ISBN | 8822246446 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003821679707536 |
Meschini, Franco Aurelio | ||
Firenze : L. S. Olschki, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Philosophy and neuroscience : a methodological analysis / / Steven S. Gouveia |
Autore | Gouveia Steven S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
Disciplina | 612.801 |
Collana | New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science |
Soggetto topico | Neurosciences - Philosophy |
ISBN |
9783030953690
9783030953683 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Praise for Philosophy and Neuroscience -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Methodological Problem in Philosophy and Neuroscience -- 1.1 General Introduction -- 1.2 Metaphilosophy: Introduction and Analysis -- 1.3 The Philosophy of Neuroscience: Introduction and Analysis -- 1.3.1 Nature and Structure of Neuroscience -- 1.3.2 Concepts, Principles and Methods of Neuroscience -- 1.3.3 Traditional Issues of Philosophy and Neuroscience -- 1.3.4 Philosophy of Neuroscience, Relationship with Other Areas of Philosophy and New Research Areas -- 1.4 Brief Introduction to Neuroscience -- References -- Chapter 2: Methodological Isolationism -- 2.1 Isolationism Approach -- 2.1.1 Concepts Precede Facts -- 2.1.2 Wittgenstein's Influence -- 2.1.3 Example of an Isolationist Examination: Determinism -- 2.1.4 Several Defences of the Isolationist Approach -- 2.2 Critical Reflection -- 2.2.1 The "Conceptual Invariance" Objection -- 2.2.2 Dennett's Objection -- 2.2.3 Searle's Objection -- 2.2.4 The Objection to "Philosophical Practice and Anti-Exceptionality" -- 2.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Reductive Neurophilosophy -- 3.1 Assumptions of the Reductive Approach -- 3.1.1 Denial of Dualism -- 3.1.2 The Concept of Reductionism -- 3.1.2.1 Reduction as Translation (RaT) -- 3.1.2.2 Reduction as Derivation (RaD) -- 3.1.2.3 Reduction as Explanation (RaE) -- 3.1.3 Reduction in Patricia Churchland -- 3.1.4 Theory of Folk Psychology -- 3.1.5 Reduction in John Bickle -- 3.1.6 The Theory of Intertheoretical Reduction -- 3.2 Critical Reflection -- 3.2.1 The "Non-Theory" Objection -- 3.2.2 The "Multiple Realizability" Objection -- 3.2.3 The Objection of "Ontological Reduction" -- 3.2.4 The Objection of "Methodological Isolationism" -- 3.2.5 The Metaphilosophical Objection -- 3.3 Conclusion -- References.
Chapter 4: Neurophenomenology -- 4.1 Assumptions of the Neurophenomenology Approach -- 4.1.1 Phenomenology -- 4.1.2 The Importance of the Body and Criticism of the Brain -- 4.1.3 The 4E's and Francisco Varela's Neurophenomenological Approach -- 4.1.4 An Example of Neurophenomenological Research: The Case of "Binocular Rivalry" -- 4.1.5 The Self in Evan Thompson -- 4.1.6 Three Pragmatic Lessons for a Rigorous Neurophenomenology -- 4.1.6.1 Science Reformulation -- 4.1.6.2 Better Science -- 4.1.6.3 The Focus on the Interviewer -- 4.2 Critical Reflection -- 4.2.1 The "Explanatory Gap" Objection -- 4.2.2 The "Introspection" Objection -- 4.2.3 The "Reductionist Accusation" Objection -- 4.2.4 The Objection of "Inconclusive Metaphilosophy" -- 4.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Non-Reductive Neurophilosophy -- 5.1 Assumptions of the Non-Reductive Approach -- 5.1.1 Methodological Balance -- 5.1.2 Methodological Strategies of Neurophilosophy -- 5.1.2.1 Asymmetry Principle -- 5.1.2.2 Principle of Bidirectionality -- 5.1.2.3 Principle of Transdisciplinary Circularity -- 5.1.3 The Nature and Metaphilosophy of the Neurophilosophical Hypothesis -- 5.1.3.1 A Brain-Based (and Not Reduced) Perspective -- 5.1.3.2 First-Person Neuroscience -- 5.1.3.3 Example of Non-Reductive Neurophilosophy Research: The Case of the Self -- 5.1.3.4 Example of Non-Reductive Neurophilosophy Research: The Self and COVID-19 -- 5.1.3.5 Example of Non-Reductive Neurophilosophy Research: The Case of Emotions -- 5.2 Critical Reflection -- 5.2.1 Objection of the "Category and Modality Error" -- 5.2.2 Objection of "Methodological Irrelevance" -- 5.2.3 Objection of "Inaccurate Metaphilosophy" -- 5.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Qualia and Information in Philosophy and Neuroscience -- 6.1 Concept of "Qualia" -- 6.1.1 The Isolationist Approach and Qualia. 6.1.2 The Reductionist Approach and Qualia -- 6.1.3 The Neurophenomenology Approach and Qualia -- 6.1.4 The Non-Reductive Neurophilosophy Approach and Qualia -- 6.2 Concept of "Information" and the Various Approaches -- 6.3 Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. |
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Gouveia Steven S. | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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