Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language
Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, and John Searle
Paper, 232 pages, 10 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-14045-4
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Introduction, by Daniel Robinson
The Argument
Selections from Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
Neuroscience and Philosophy, by Maxwell R. Bennett
The Rebuttals
"Philosophy as Naive Anthropology: Comment on Bennett and Hacker," by Daniel Dennett
"Putting Consciousness Back in the Brain: Reply to Bennett and Hacker, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience," by John Searle
Reply to the Rebuttals
"The Conceptual Presuppositions of Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reply to Critics," by Maxwell R. Bennett and Peter M. S. Hacker
Epilogue, by Maxwell R. Bennett
"Still Looking: Science and Philosophy in Pursuit of Prince Reason," by Daniel Robinson
Notes
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About the Author
Maxwell Bennett is professor of neuroscience and university chair at the University of Sydney and scientific director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute. His most recent books are History of the Synapse, The Idea of Consciousness, and Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, which he coauthored with Peter Hacker.
Daniel Dennett is Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of numerous books including Freedom Evolves, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, and Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life.
Peter Hacker is a fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. The leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, his seventeen books include, most recently, Human Nature: The Categorical Framework, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, which he coauthored with Maxwell Bennett, and Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies.
John Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of sixteen books, including Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power, Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, and Mind: A Brief Introduction. His works have been translated into twenty-one languages, and in 2004 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
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