Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind: Learning from the Unwell Brain (eng)

Georg Northoff

ISBN 10: 0393709388 / ISBN 13: 9780393709384

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers f59123cb8b58c94d24b1125328e6240b

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Can we see or find consciousness in the brain? How can we create working definitions of consciousness and subjectivity, informed by what contemporary research and technology have taught us about how the brain works? How do neuronal processes in the brain relate to our experience of a personal identity?To explore these and other questions, Georg Northoff turns to examples of unhealthy minds. By investigating consciousness through its absence in a vegetative state, for example, we can develop a model for understanding its presence in an active, healthy person. By examining instances of distorted self-recognition in people with psychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia, we can begin to understand how the experience of self is established in a stable brain.Taking an integrative approach to understanding the self, consciousness, and what it means to be mentally healthy, this book brings insights from neuroscience to bear on philosophical questions.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Georg Northoff, MD, PhD, a neuroscientist, philosopher, and psychiatrist, is professor of neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research. His trans-disciplinary approach to understanding the neural mechanisms underlying mental features like the self and consciousness and philosophical issues like the mind-brain problem has made him a world-recognized leader in the field of neurophilosophy. He lives in Rockcliffe, Ontario.

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Titel: Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind: ...
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Softcover
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