Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience

• Main Author: Schulkin, Jay (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Pragmatism.; Political science.; Political philosophy.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Mind.

This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes' Jr., and the pragmatist tradition of John Dewey. Schulkin proposes that human problem solving and the law are tied to a nat...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Holmes' Critical Experience in War
• 3. Experience, Inference and Surviving
• 4. Holmes, Pragmatism and Nature
• 5. Duty, Surviving, Social Contract
• 6. Emersonian Sensibilities
• 7. Bounded Choice, Human Freedom and Problem Solving
• 8. Naturalizing Decision-Making
• 9. Ethics, Body Politic, and Neuroscience
• 10. Neuroscientific Considerations and the Law
• 11. Conclusion. .