デネット、サール他著／神経科学と哲学：言語、心と脳 Neuroscience and Philosophy : Brain, Mind, and Language

Bennett, Maxwell/ Dennett, Daniel/ Hacker, Peter

Columbia University Press（2009/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780231140454
• DDC分類 612.82

基本説明

脳科学者ベネットとハッカーの共著『神経科学の哲学的基盤』（2003年）における批判的議論を受けて組まれた、アメリカ哲学会（2005年）における「著者と批評家」討論のセッションをまとめた一冊。迎え撃つ哲学者として、デネットとサールが登場。
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Presents an expanded version of the thought-provoking intellectual exchange on the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience that took place at the 2005 meeting of the American Philosophical Association in New York. In conclusion, Daniel Robinson (Georgetown University) makes clear why this debate is so crucial for the understanding of neuroscientific research. is so crucial for the understanding of neuroscientific research.

Full Description

In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive neuroscientists. Their position is then criticized by Daniel Dennett and John Searle, two philosophers who have written extensively on the subject, and Bennett and Hacker in turn respond. Their impassioned debate encompasses a wide range of central themes: the nature of consciousness, the bearer and location of psychological attributes, the intelligibility of so-called brain maps and representations, the notion of qualia, the coherence of the notion of an intentional stance, and the relationships between mind, brain, and body.
Clearly argued and thoroughly engaging, the authors present fundamentally different conceptions of philosophical method, cognitive-neuroscientific explanation, and human nature, and their exchange will appeal to anyone interested in the relation of mind to brain, of psychology to neuroscience, of causal to rational explanation, and of consciousness to self-consciousness. In his conclusion Daniel Robinson (member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University) explains why this confrontation is so crucial to the understanding of neuroscientific research. The project of cognitive neuroscience, he asserts, depends on the incorporation of human nature into the framework of science itself. In Robinson's estimation, Dennett and Searle fail to support this undertaking; Bennett and Hacker suggest that the project itself might be based on a conceptual mistake. Exciting and challenging, Neuroscience and Philosophy is an exceptional introduction to the philosophical problems raised by cognitive neuroscience.

Contents

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