Smith, Christopher Upham Murray (Editor)
Whitaker, Harry A. (Editor)
Springer
Physical Details: xiv + 369 pp.; ill.
Language: English
This volume of essays examines the problem of mind, looking at how the problem has appeared to neuroscientists (in the widest sense) from classical antiquity through to contemporary times. Beginning with a look at ventricular neuropsychology in antiquity, this book goes on to look at Spinozan ideas on the links between mind and body, Thomas Willis and the foundation of Neurology, Hooke's mechanical model of the mind and Joseph Priestley's approach to the mind-body problem. The volume offers a chapter on the 19th century Ottoman perspective on western thinking. Further chapters trace the work of nineteenth century scholars including George Henry Lewes, Herbert Spencer and Emil du Bois-Reymond. The book covers significant work from the twentieth century, including an examination of Alfred North Whitehead and the history of consciousness, and particular attention is given to the development of quantum consciousness. Chapters on slavery and the self and the development of an understanding of Dualism bring this examination up to date on the latest 21st century work in the field. At the heart of this book is the matter of how we define the problem of consciousness itself: has there been any progress in our understanding of the working of mind and brain? This work at the interface between science and the humanities will appeal to experts from across many fields who wish to develop their understanding of the problem of consciousness, including scholars of Neuroscience, Behavioural Science and the History of Science.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Roger Smith (2015) Review of "Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 413-416).
Chapter Smith, Christopher Upham Murray (2014) Beginnings: Ventricular Psychology. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 1).
Chapter Tabb, Kathryn (2014) “Struck, As It Were, with Madness”: Phenomenology and Animal Spirits in the Neuropathology of Thomas Willis. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 43).
Chapter MacIntosh, J. J. (2014) Hooke's Mechanical Mind. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 59).
Chapter Anogianakis, George (2014) Reflections of Western Thinking on Nineteenth Century Ottoman Thought: A Critique of the “Hard-Problem” by Spyridon Mavrogenis, a Nineteenth Century Physiologist. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 91).
Chapter Smith, Christopher Upham Murray (2014) Herbert Spencer: Brain, Mind and the Hard Problem. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 125).
Chapter Lazar, J. Wayne (2014) Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and American Neurology. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 147).
Chapter Hawkins, Stephanie L. (2014) William James and the “Theatre” of Consciousness. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 185).
Chapter Smith, Christopher Upham Murray (2014) The “Hard Problem” and the Cartesian Strand in British Neurophysiology: Huxley, Foster, Sherrington, Eccles. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 255).
Chapter Meehan, William (2014) Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of the Mind and Brain Sciences. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 21).
Chapter Beretta, Alan (2014) Joseph Priestley: An Instructive Eighteenth Century Perspective on the Mind-Body Problem. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 75).
Chapter Price, Elfed Huw (2014) George Henry Lewes (1817--1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 105).
Chapter Finkelstein, Gabriel (2014) Emil du Bois-Reymond's Reflections on Consciousness. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 163).
Chapter Edwards, Laura Hyatt (2014) Alfred North Whitehead and the History of Consciousness. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 225).
Chapter Hawkes, David (2014) Zombie Dawn: Slavery and the Self in the Twenty-First Century. In: Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience (p. 333).
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