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Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement

By Andrew Brook , Kathleen Akins (Editors)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0521836425, 9780521836425, 0521544912, 9780521544917, 9780511610608
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9637434 bytes)
Pages
440\453
Topic
Medicine Neurology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This volume provides an up to date and comprehensive overview of the philosophy and neuroscience movement, which applies the methods of neuroscience to traditional philosophical problems and uses philosophical methods to illuminate issues in neuroscience. At the heart of the movement is the conviction that basic questions about human cognition, many of which have been studied for millennia, can be answered only by a philosophically sophisticated grasp of neuroscience's insights into the processing of information by the human brain. Essays in this volume are clustered around five major themes: data and theory in neuroscience; neural representation and computation; visuomotor transformations; color vision; and consciousness.

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