Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience - Couverture souple

 
9780190460730: Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
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ISBN 10 : 0190460733 ISBN 13 : 9780190460730
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to support a foundation of being. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir, developed in response to similar realizations about the overly optimistic Enlightenment vision of reason and the common good.

The third-wave of existentialism, a new existentialism, developed in response to advances in the neurosciences that threaten the last vestiges of an immaterial soul or self. Given the increasing explanatory and therapeutic power of neuroscience, the mind no longer stands apart from the world to serve as a foundation of meaning. This produces foundational anxiety.

In Neuroexistentialism, a group of contributors that includes some of the world's leading philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars, explores the anxiety caused by third-wave existentialism and possible responses to it. Together, these essays tackle our neuroexistentialist predicament, and explore what the mind sciences can tell us about morality, love, emotion, autonomy, consciousness, selfhood, free will, moral responsibility, law, the nature of criminal punishment, meaning in life, and purpose.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregg D. Caruso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning

Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190460733
ISBN 13 
9780190460730
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
392
Éditeur
Caruso Gregg, Flanagan Owen
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ISBN 10 :  0190460725 ISBN 13 :  9780190460723
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2018
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