Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience. P. M. S. Hacker
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bennett, M. R., author. | Hacker, P. M. S. (Peter Michael Stephan), author.
Title: Philosophical foundations of neuroscience / M.R. Bennett and P.M.S. Hacker.
Description: Second Edition. | Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2022. |
First Edition: 2003. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021008649 | ISBN 9781119530978 (Paperback) | ISBN 9781119531012 (PDF) | ISBN 9781119530633 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119530923 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Cognitive neuroscience--Philosophy.
Classification: LCC QP360.5 .B465 2022 | DDC 612.8/233--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008649
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Contents
1 Cover
2 Reviews of Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
6 Foreword to the Second Edition by Denis Noble
7 Foreword to the First Edition by Denis Noble
8 Acknowledgements to the Second Edition
9 Acknowledgements to the First Edition
10 Introduction to the First Edition
11 Introduction to the Second Edition
12 Part I Philosophical Problems in Neuroscience: Their Historical and Conceptual RootsPreliminaries to Part I1 Philosophical Problems in Neuroscience: Their Historical Roots2 Philosophical Problems in Neuroscience: Their Conceptual Roots1 The Growth of Neuroscientific Knowledge: The Integrative Action of the Nervous System1.1 Aristotle, Galen and Nemesius: The Origins of the Ventricular Doctrine1.2 Fernel and Descartes: The Demise of the Ventricular Doctrine1.3 The Cortical Doctrine of Willis and Its Aftermath1.4 The Concept of a Reflex: Bell, Magendie and Marshall Hall1.5 Localizing Function in the Cortex: Broca, Fritsch and Hitzig1.6 The Integrative Action of the Nervous System: Sherrington1.6.1 The dependence of psychological capacities on the functioning of cortex: localization determined non-invasively by Ogawa and Sokolof1.6.2 Caveats concerning the use of fMRI to determine the areas of cortex involved in supporting psychological powers2 The Growth of Neuroscientific Knowledge: The Integrative Action of the Nervous System2.1 Charles Sherrington: The Continuing Cartesian Impact2.2 Edgar Adrian: Hesitant Cartesianism2.3 John Eccles and the ‘Liaison Brain’2.4 Wilder Penfield and the ‘Highest Brain Mechanism’3 The Mereological Fallacy in Neuroscience3.1 Mereological Confusions in Cognitive Neuroscience3.2 Challenging the Consensus: The Brain Is Not the Subject of Psychological Attributes3.3 Qualms Concerning Ascription of a Mereological Fallacy to Neuroscience3.4 Replies to Objections4 An Overview of the Conceptual Field of Cognitive Neuroscience: Evidence, the Inner, Introspection, Privileged Access, Privacy and Subjectivity4.1 On the Grounds for Ascribing Psychological Predicates to a Being4.2 On the Grounds for Misascribing Psychological Predicates to an Inner Entity4.3 The Inner4.4 Introspection4.5 Privileged Access: Direct and Indirect4.6 Privacy or Subjectivity4.7 The Meaning of Psychological Predicates: How They Are Explained and Learned4.8 Of the Mind and Its Nature
13 Part II Human Faculties and Contemporary Neuroscience: An AnalysisPreliminaries to Part II1 Brain–Body Dualism (Searle)2 The Project3 The Category of the Psychological5 Sensation and Perception5.1 Sensation5.2 Perception5.2.1 Perception as the causation of sensations: primary and secondary qualities5.2.2 Perception as hypothesis formation: Helmholtz5.2.3 Visual images