PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NEUROSCIENCE
by M.R BENNETT, Max R. Bennett, P. M. S. Hacker · first published 2003
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…large, makes it "absurd, on its face." These scientists attempt to pass off as discovery what can, by the nature of science itself, only be suggestion, persuasion, justification. Please also review "[The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369939.Philosophical_Foun...)."
on “Scientific evidence that you probably don’t have free will” ↗…researched and amply sourced. He's an established professional philosopher. He has also written extensively with M.R. Bennet, an established neuroscientist with many papers, a good book of theirs is: The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140510838X...) I'm not a professional scientist, I don't have access to papers. I have access to books.
on “What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language” ↗That claim has a very robust history in philosophy of mind. Peter Hacker and M.R. Bennett, a philosopher and a neuroscientist respectively, cowrote Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience[0]. There was also a fascinating response and discussion in a further book with Daniel Dennett and John Searle called Neuroscience and Philosophy[1]. Both books are excellent and have fascinating arguments…
on “Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep” ↗…evidence, etc. cited. Thinking 'in' language implies passivity and representation, thinking into language implies evolutionarily novel linguistic production, autonomy of mind, etc. Please review The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience.
on “The Power of Language” ↗…of how much you are going to learn. This post is irony at a base level. You ultimately have to sift through a lot of books to get past popular books like Godel, Escher, Bach and on to something like Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience.
on “How to Read More Books” ↗…interesting is that they are engaging in an activity that wishes to avoid reproducibility. They allow "facts" and "ideas" to swap. Articles like http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/5828 exist. There's the Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience. All that theorizing needs to record facts. To do that, we need to be able to follow what the hell is going on without blatant wankery like with Anthony Crick or early John Searle's "foot in the mind"…
on “Is Psychology About to Come Undone?” ↗Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, An Introductory Course in Computational Neuroscience, and Principles of Neural Design - all bought used for an okay price. Not exactly very theoretical books, but the topic fascinated me recently and…
on “Books I loved reading this year” ↗