ABSTRACT
This chapter provides historical background to substantiate the claim that neuroscience in education is currently largely divorced from philosophy and history, preferring to focus absorbedly on microbiology, nanotechnology, and cognitive psychology. Commercial applications, such as Lumosity, Fit Brains, and Cognifit, exploit such foci for financial gain. The chapter considers the food and then contemplates possible connections to school, as a means of both clarifying and applying neuropragmatism to education and, thus, rescuing the most useful elements of neuroscientific inquiry while also problematizing Mind-Brain Education (MBE). Neuroscience is also prominently in the news of late, not altogether unproblematically. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, recently published his book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeons Journey into the Afterlife. The chapter presents the key elements of classical pragmatism and neopragmatism in order to show how neuropragmatism is thinkable. Classical pragmatism was, positively, an outgrown of Darwin and, negatively, a reaction against analytic philosophy.
