What Makes Us Think?
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-00940-7 (ISBN)
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Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? In an exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this study explores the vexed territory between these divergent approaches - and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology to PET scans and from Spinoza to Charles Taylor, "What Makes Us Think?" revolves around a central issue: the relation between the facts (or "what is") of science and the prescriptions (or "what ought to be") of ethics. Changeux and Ricoeur ask: will neuroscientific knowledge influence our moral conduct? Is a naturally based ethics possible? Pursuing these questions, they attack key topics at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience: What are the relations between brain states and psychological experience? Between language and truth? Memory and culture? Behaviour and action? What is mental representation? How does a sign relate to what it signifies? How might subjective experience be constructed rather than discovered?
In asking these
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Professor of Neurobiology at the College de France, is the author of Neuronal Man and, with Alain Connes, Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics (both Princeton). Paul Ricoeur is a hermeneutic philosopher and the author of many books, including Time and Narrative.
Translator's Note vi Prelude ix Chapter 1: A Necessary Encounter Knowledge and Wisdom 3 Knowledge of the Brain and Self-Knowledge 10 The Biological and the Normative 26 Chapter 2: Body and Mind: In Search of a Common Discourse 33 The Cartesian Ambiguity 33 The Contribution of the Neurosciences 41 Toward a Third Kind of Discourse? 63 Chapter 3: The Neuronal Model and the Test of Experience 70 The Simple and the Complex: Questions of Method 70 The Human Brain: Complexity, Hierarchy, Spontaneity 75 Mental Objects: Chimera or Link? 93 Is a Neuronal Theory of Knowledge Possible? 110 Understanding Better by Explaining More 125 Chapter 4: Consciousness of Oneself and of Others 134 Conscious Space 134 The Question of Memory 138 Comprehension of Oneself and of Others 154 Mind or Matter? 169 Chapter 5: The Origins of Morality 179 Darwinian Evolution and Moral Norms 179 The First Structures of Morality 195 From Biological History to Cultural History: Valuing the Individual 202 Chapter 6: Desire and Norms 212 Natural Dispositions to Ethical Systems 212 The Biological Bases of Rules of Conduct 222 Passage to the Norm 239 Chapter 7: Ethical Universality and Cultural Conflict 257 The Natural Foundations of an Ethics of Debate 257 Religion and Violence 259 Paths of Tolerance 272 The Scandal of Evil 279 Toward an Ethics of Deliberation: The Example of Advisory Committees on Bioethics 298 Art as Peacemaker 303 Fugue 311 Notes 313 Index 327
| Übersetzer | M. B. DeBevoise |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 halftones 16 line illus. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
| Gewicht | 539 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-00940-6 / 0691009406 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-00940-7 / 9780691009407 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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