ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the structure and content of this textbook to help situate the reader. It discusses the unique collaborative project, including a general introduction to the fields of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, as well as some basic neuroanatomy. perhaps the oldest academic discipline, philosophy is devoted to the study of a wide range of phenomena using a wide range of methods, including formal logic, ethics, and phenomenology. A broad multidisciplinary field that seeks to study cognition from a variety of perspectives, using a multiplicity of research methods and experimental paradigms. Narrowly understood, neuroscience studies the workings of the neural system. As an interdisciplinary field, it utilizes research from biology, medicine, chemistry, computational science, math, physics, and psychology. A philosophical approach that seeks to explain all aspects of reality, especially phenomena studied by the sciences, purely in terms of naturally occurring objects, properties, and relations.
