Wolfe C.T. (ed.) Brain Theory: Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 301 p.From its beginnings until the present day, neuroscience has always had a special relationship to philosophy. And philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain (and by extension, the relation of cerebral processes to freedom, morals, and justice, but also to perception and art). This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art reflections on philosophical efforts to 'make sense' of neuroscience, as regards issues including neuroaesthetics, neuroethics and neurolaw, but also more critical, evaluative perspectives on topics such as the social neuroscience of race, neurofeminism, embodiment and collaboration, memory and pain, and more directly empirical topics such as neuroconstructivism and embodied robotics. Brain theory as presented here is neither mere commentary on the state of the sciences, nor armchair philosophical reflection on traditional topics. It is more pluralistic than current philosophy of neuroscience (or neurophenomenology), yet more directly engaged with empirical, indeed experimental matters than socio-cultural discussions of 'brainhood' or representations of the brain.Concepts and ProspectsMemory Traces between Brain Theory and Philosophy
Pain and the Nature of Psychological Attributes
Is the Next Frontier in Neuroscience a ‘Decade of the Mind’?
Neuroconstructivism: A Developmental Turn in Cognitive Neuroscience?Naturalistic ApproachesComputing with Bodies: Morphology, Function, and Computational Theory
Embodied Collaboration in Small Groups
Little-e Eliminativism in Mainstream Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience: Tensions for Neuro-Normativity
Ethics and the Brains of Psychopaths: The Significance of Psychopathy for Our Ethical and Legal Theories
Memory Traces, Memory Errors, and the Possibility of Neural Lie DetectionEvaluation and SpeculationFeminist Approaches to Neurocultures
Non-Reductive Integration in Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Multiple Systems Model and Situated Concepts
History, Causal Information, and the Neuroscience of Art: Toward a Psycho-Historical Theory
The Architectonics of the Mind’s Eye in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism