ABSTRACT

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in neuroscientific research, and an expansion beyond basic research to incorporate elements of the arts, humanities and social sciences. It has been suggested that the neurosciences will bring about major transformations in the understanding of ourselves, our culture and our society. In academia one finds debates within psychology, philosophy and literature about the implications of developments within the neurosciences, and the emerging fields of educational neuroscience, neuro-economics, and neuro-aesthetics also bear witness to a ‘neurological turn’ which is currently taking place.

Neuroscience and Critique

is a ground-breaking edited collection which reflects on the impact of neuroscience in contemporary social science and the humanities. It is the first book to consider possibilities for a critique of the theories, practices, and implications of contemporary neuroscience.

Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license. 

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Who Needs Critique?

part |70 pages

Which Critique?

chapter |11 pages

The Brain: A Nostalgic Dream

Some Notes on Neuroscience and the Problem of Modern Knowledge

chapter |21 pages

Who are we, then, If we are Indeed our Brains?

Reconsidering a Critical Approach to Neuroscience1

chapter |17 pages

Neuroscientific Dystopia

Does Naturalism Commit a Category Mistake?

part |92 pages

Some Critiques

chapter |17 pages

What is the Feminist Critique of Neuroscience?

A Call for Dissensus Studies1

chapter |24 pages

Brain in the Shell

Assessing the Stakes and the Transformative Potential of the Human Brain Project

chapter |30 pages

Confession of a Weak Reductionist

Responses to Some Recent Criticisms of My Materialism

part |50 pages

Critical Praxes

chapter |15 pages

The Role of Biology in the Advent of Psychology

Neuropsychoanalysis and the Foundation of a Mental Level of Causality

chapter |18 pages

Empathy as Developmental Achievement

Beyond Embodied Simulation1

part |10 pages

Afterword