Solymosi T., Shook J.R. (ed.) Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism: Brains at Work with the World

London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 341 p.Recent work in the neurosciences and neurophilosophy has found resources in the philosophical tradition of pragmatism. This volume is the first to bring together active neuroscientists, neurophilosophers, and scholars to consider the prospects of a neuroscientifically-informed pragmatism and a pragmatically-informed neuroscience on issues ranging from the nature of mental life to the implications of neuroscience for education and ethics. For the past 20 years, many people, from journalists to presidents, have advocated the importance of studying the brain for understanding a host of medical phenomena and disabilities. This enthusiasm has only recently been met with skepticism. This collection, however, takes a critical yet constructive attitude toward the import of the neurosciences. The aim is not only to provide a philosophical framework based in the pragmatism out of which the neurosciences initially grew, but also to modify and advance that framework in light of the fruits -as well as the limitations - of the neurosciences.List of Figures
List of TablesNotes on ContributorsPragmatism, Philosophy and the BrainNeuropragmatism and the Reconstruction of Scientific and Humanistic Worldviews
Keeping the Pragmatism in Neuropragmatism;
How Computational Neuroscience Revealed that the Pragmatists Were Right
Pragmatism, Cognitive Capacity, and Brain FunctionCognition, Emotion and thw WorldThe End of the Debate over Extended Cognition
Knowing and the Known: Brain Science and an Empirically Responsible Epistemology
Dewey's Rejection of the Emotion/Expression DistinctionCreativity, Education and ApplicationFinding Unapparent Connections: How Our Hominin Ancestors Evolved Creativity by Solving Practical Problems
Neuropragmatism and Apprenticeship: A Model for Education
A Neuropragmatist Framework for Childhood Education: Integrating Pragmatism and Neuroscience to Actualize Article 29 of the UN Child ConventionEthics, Neuroscience and PossibilityUnderstanding the Contribution of Neuroscience to Ethics Within an Interdisciplinary Pragmatic Framework
Pragmatic Ethics: A Dynamical Theory Based on Active Responsibility
Moral First Aid for a Neuroscientific Age