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Philosophers and neuroscientists address central issues in both fields, including morality, action, mental illness, consciousness, perception, and memory.
 

Philosophers and neuroscientists grapple with the same profound questions involving consciousness, perception, behavior, and moral judgment, but only recently have the two disciplines begun to work together. This volume offers fourteen original chapters that address these issues, each written by a team that includes at least one philosopher and one neuroscientist who integrate disciplinary perspectives and reflect the latest research in both fields. Topics include morality, empathy, agency, the self, mental illness, neuroprediction, optogenetics, pain, vision, consciousness, memory, concepts, mind wandering, and the neural basis of psychological categories.
 
The chapters first address basic issues about our social and moral lives: how we decide to act and ought to act toward each other, how we unde

Neuroscience and Philosophy

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    A Paperback by Felipe De Brigard, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

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      Publisher: MIT Press
      Publication Date: 2/1/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780262045438, 978-0262045438
      ISBN10: 0262045435
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Philosophers and neuroscientists address central issues in both fields, including morality, action, mental illness, consciousness, perception, and memory.
       

      Philosophers and neuroscientists grapple with the same profound questions involving consciousness, perception, behavior, and moral judgment, but only recently have the two disciplines begun to work together. This volume offers fourteen original chapters that address these issues, each written by a team that includes at least one philosopher and one neuroscientist who integrate disciplinary perspectives and reflect the latest research in both fields. Topics include morality, empathy, agency, the self, mental illness, neuroprediction, optogenetics, pain, vision, consciousness, memory, concepts, mind wandering, and the neural basis of psychological categories.
       
      The chapters first address basic issues about our social and moral lives: how we decide to act and ought to act toward each other, how we unde

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