Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and LanguageIn 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. |
Contents
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An Excerpt from Chapter 3 M R Bennett and PMS Hacker | 15 |
An Excerpt from Chapter 10 M R Bennett and PMS Hacker | 35 |
An Excerpt from Chapter 14 The Concluding Remarks M R Bennett and PMS Hacker | 45 |
Neuroscience and Philosophy Maxwell Bennett | 49 |
THE REBUTTALS | 71 |
Comment on Bennett and Hacker Daniel Dennett | 73 |
Reply to Bennett and Hacker Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience John Searle | 97 |
REPLY TO THE REBUTTALS | 125 |
A Reply to Critics Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker | 127 |
Maxwell Bennett | 163 |
Science and Philosophy in Pursuit of Prince Reason Daniel Robinson | 171 |
NOTES | 195 |