Neuroexistentialism
Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
Published on 29. March 2018
Book
Hardback
388 pages
978-0-19-046072-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Caruso and Flanagan's edited collection Neuroexistentialism provides a carefully considered selection of writings that discuss a broad range of themes pertaining to a contemporary discourse that is both fascinating, thought provoking and complex. * Anna Westin, Metapsychology *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
746 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-046072-3 (9780190460723)
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Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
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Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
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Gregg Caruso | Owen Flanagan
Neuroexistentialism
Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
E-Book
02/2017
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€26.49
Available for download
Persons
Gregg D. Caruso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning
Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University
Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University
Content
Preface
Contributor List
Chapter 1: Neuroexistentialism: Third-Wave Existentialism Owen Flanagan and Gregg D. Caruso
Section I. Morality, Love, and Emotion
Chapter 2: The Impact of Social Neuroscience on Moral Philosophy Patricia Smith Churchland
Chapter 3: All You Need is Love(s): Exploring the Biological Platform of Morality Maureen Sie
Chapter 4: Does Neuroscience Undermine Morality? Paul Henne and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Chapter 5: The Neuroscience of Purpose, Meaning, and Morals Edmund T. Rolls
Chapter 6: Moral Sedimentation Jesse Prinz
Section II. Autonomy, Consciousness, and the Self
Chapter 7: Choices Without Choosers: Towards a Neuropsychologically Plausible Existentialism Neil Levy
Chapter 8: Relational Authenticity Shaun Gallagher, Ben Morgan, and Naomi Rokotnitz
Chapter 9: Behavior Control, Meaning, and Neuroscience Walter Glannon
Chapter 10: Two Types of Libertarian Free Will are Realized in the Human Brain Peter U. Tse
Section III. Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Meaning in Life
Chapter 11: Hard-Incompatibilist Existentialism: Neuroscience, Punishment, and Meaning in Life Derk Pereboom and Gregg D. Caruso
Chapter 12: On Determinism and Human Responsibility Michael S. Gazzaniga
Chapter 13:Free Will Skepticism, Freedom, and Criminal Behavior Farah Focquaert, Andrea L. Glenn, Adrian Raine
Chapter 14: Your Brain as the Source of Free Will Worth Wanting: Understanding Free Will in the Age of Neuroscience Eddy Nahmias
Chapter 15: Humility, Free Will Beliefs, and Existential Angst: How We Got from a Preliminary Investigation to a Cautionary Tale Thomas Nadelhoffer and Jennifer Cole Wright
Chapter 16: Purpose, Freedom, and the Laws of Nature Sean M. Carroll
Section IV. Neuroscience and the Law
Chapter 17: The Neuroscience of Criminality and Our Sense of Justice: An Analysis of Recent
Appellate Decisions in Criminal CasesValerie Hardcastle
Chapter 18:The Neuroscientific Non-Challenge to Meaning, Morals and Purpose Stephen J. Morse
Contributor List
Chapter 1: Neuroexistentialism: Third-Wave Existentialism Owen Flanagan and Gregg D. Caruso
Section I. Morality, Love, and Emotion
Chapter 2: The Impact of Social Neuroscience on Moral Philosophy Patricia Smith Churchland
Chapter 3: All You Need is Love(s): Exploring the Biological Platform of Morality Maureen Sie
Chapter 4: Does Neuroscience Undermine Morality? Paul Henne and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Chapter 5: The Neuroscience of Purpose, Meaning, and Morals Edmund T. Rolls
Chapter 6: Moral Sedimentation Jesse Prinz
Section II. Autonomy, Consciousness, and the Self
Chapter 7: Choices Without Choosers: Towards a Neuropsychologically Plausible Existentialism Neil Levy
Chapter 8: Relational Authenticity Shaun Gallagher, Ben Morgan, and Naomi Rokotnitz
Chapter 9: Behavior Control, Meaning, and Neuroscience Walter Glannon
Chapter 10: Two Types of Libertarian Free Will are Realized in the Human Brain Peter U. Tse
Section III. Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Meaning in Life
Chapter 11: Hard-Incompatibilist Existentialism: Neuroscience, Punishment, and Meaning in Life Derk Pereboom and Gregg D. Caruso
Chapter 12: On Determinism and Human Responsibility Michael S. Gazzaniga
Chapter 13:Free Will Skepticism, Freedom, and Criminal Behavior Farah Focquaert, Andrea L. Glenn, Adrian Raine
Chapter 14: Your Brain as the Source of Free Will Worth Wanting: Understanding Free Will in the Age of Neuroscience Eddy Nahmias
Chapter 15: Humility, Free Will Beliefs, and Existential Angst: How We Got from a Preliminary Investigation to a Cautionary Tale Thomas Nadelhoffer and Jennifer Cole Wright
Chapter 16: Purpose, Freedom, and the Laws of Nature Sean M. Carroll
Section IV. Neuroscience and the Law
Chapter 17: The Neuroscience of Criminality and Our Sense of Justice: An Analysis of Recent
Appellate Decisions in Criminal CasesValerie Hardcastle
Chapter 18:The Neuroscientific Non-Challenge to Meaning, Morals and Purpose Stephen J. Morse