The Neurodynamic Soul

Reviews / Votes

" The Neurodynamic Soul is fascinating and thought provoking. An especially compelling theme is how individuals go on to reorganise and persist in the face of neural loss and extreme neural pathology." (Elaine Reese, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Aparangi, Department of Psychology, University of Otago)

"Unlike the popular Platonist take on the soul, the novel synthesis of this book gives an account of the soul in terms of its emerging and changing neuroscientific, interpersonal, discursive, agentive, and virtuous expressions. It embraces non-reductively and with extensive reach the current yield of neurosciences as well as the philosophical work of Aristotle and Wittgenstein. This book is an eye-opener to the epistemological gaps in our current scholarly understanding of what human beings constitutively and dynamically are and become in a value-laden interpersonal world." (Werdie van Staden, Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Director of the Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, South Africa )

"Gillett and Glannon's analysis of the neurodynamic soul reveals some of the limitations of established philosophical conceptions of mind and brain, replete with metaphors that misrepresent human neurocognition and generate metaphysical and logico-mathematical paradoxes. This has prompted their return to Aristotle as a founding voice of non-dualistic psychophysical naturalism . " (Giovanni Stanghellini, University of Florence, Italy)

"A key idea in Wittgenstein's later philosophy is that making sense of determinately correct and incorrect ways of 'going on' in applying a rule requires us to think of human speakers and thinkers as embodied and essentially embedded in social and cultural practices.In The Neurodynamic Soul Wittgenstein's idea is put to novel and creative use by Gillet and Glannon in an impressive and wide-ranging attempt to resist currently dominant models of cognitive science via an inclusively naturalist framework for understanding mentality that transcends both dualist and narrowly scientistic accounts of the mind." (Alex Miller, University of Otago, New Zealand)

" The Neurodynamic Soul is a dark, dazzling leap into the depths of the human mind, guided by two of the most experienced philosophical explorers in the world." (Carl Elliott MD PhD, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota)