Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smith, C.U.M (Editor), Whitaker, Harry (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 6
• Subjects: 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...