Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Smith, C.U.M (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Whitaker, Harry (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 6
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Biology > Philosophy.; Neurobiology.; Neuropsychology.; Philosophy of Biology.

This volume of essays examines the problem of mind, looking at how the problem has appeared to neuroscientists (in the widest sense) from classical antiquity through to contemporary times. Beginning with a look at ventricular neuropsychology in antiquity, this book goes on to look at Spinozan ideas...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction; C.U.M.Smith and H.A. Whitaker
• Chapter 1. Beginnings: ventricular neuropsychology; C.U.M.Smith
• Chapter 2. Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of Mind and Brain Sciences; William Meehan
• Chapter 3. ‘Struck, As It Were, With Madness:’ The Phenomenology of Animal Spirits in the Neurology of Thomas Willis; Kathryn Tabb
• Chapter 4. Hooke’s mechanical mind; J.J. MacIntosh
• Chapter 5. Joseph Priestley: An instructive 18th century perspective on the mind-body problem; Alan Beretta
• Chapter 6. Reflections of western thinking on 19th C Ottoman thought: A critique of the 'hard-problem' by Spyridon Mavrogenis; George Anogianakis
• Chapter 7. George Henry Lewes (1817–1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception; Huw Price
• Chapter 8. Herbert Spencer: brain, mind and the ‘hard problem’; C.U.M.Smith
• Chapter 9. Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and America Neurology; J Wayne Lazar
• Chapter 10. Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Reflections on Consciousness ; Gabriel Finkelstein
• Chapter 11. William James and the “Theatre” of Consciousness; Stephanie L. Hawkins
• Chapter 12. The enigmatic deciphering of the neuronal code of word meaning; Andrew C. Papanicolaou
• Chapter 13. Alfred North Whitehead and the history of consciousness; Laura Hyatt Edwards
• Chapter 14. The ‘hard problem’ and the Cartesian strand in British neurophysiology: Huxley, Foster, Sherrington, Eccles; C.U.M.Smith
• Chapter 15. Is there a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness?; Barry K Ward
• Chapter 16. Consciousness and neuronal microtubules: the Penrose-Hameroff quantum model in retrospect; Eugenio Frixione
• Chapter 17. Zombie Dawn: Slavery and the Self in the Twenty-first Century; David Hawkes
• Chapter 18. Mind and Brain: Toward an Understanding of Dualism; Kristopher Phillips, Alan Beretta and Harry Whitaker.