Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, Paperback by Bennett, M. R.; Hacke...

Description: Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, Paperback by Bennett, M. R.; Hacker, P. M. S., ISBN 1119530970, ISBN-13 9781119530978, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In the time since its initial publication nearly two decades ago, this provocative work has been widely hailed as a singular achievement in scholarship-challenging many of the scientific and philosophical concepts underlying the practice of cognitive neuroscience. Distinguished neuroscientist . Bennett and celebrated philosopher . Hacker provide a truly interdisciplinary survey of the conceptual confusion encountered in the neuroscientific and psychological theories of Blakemore, Crick, Edelman, Gazzaniga, LeDoux, Damasio, Kandel, Dehaene, Tononi, Baars and others. Extensively revised and expanded by 70,000 words, the second edition of this volume incorporates new discussions of the conceptual problems of fMRI and its interpretation, of Integrated Information Theory of Tononi, and of Global Workspace Theory of Dehaene, of conflict monitoring and the Executive, as well as a new chapter on concepts, thinking and speaking. In addition, Bennett and Hacker have inserted dozens of diagrams, tables, and figures into the text to provide overviews of arguments, classifications and comparisons. Detailed responses to criticisms of the first edition are advanced.

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