9780190460730-0190460733-Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience

Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780190460730
ISBN-10: 0190460733
Author: Owen Flanagan, Gregg Caruso
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 392 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780190460730
ISBN-10: 0190460733
Author: Owen Flanagan, Gregg Caruso
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 392 pages

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Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (ISBN-13: 9780190460730 and ISBN-10: 0190460733), written by authors Owen Flanagan, Gregg Caruso, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Neuropsychology (Psychology & Counseling, Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Neuropsychology, Psychology, Consciousness & Thought, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Neuropsychology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $11.59.

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Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to support a foundation of being. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir, developed in response to similar realizations about the overly optimistic Enlightenment vision of reason and the common good.

The third-wave of existentialism, a new existentialism, developed in response to advances in the neurosciences that threaten the last vestiges of an immaterial soul or self. Given the increasing explanatory and therapeutic power of neuroscience, the mind no longer stands apart from the world to serve as a foundation of meaning. This produces foundational anxiety.

In Neuroexistentialism, a group of contributors that includes some of the world's leading philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars, explores the anxiety caused by third-wave existentialism and possible responses to it. Together, these essays tackle our neuroexistentialist predicament, and explore what the mind sciences can tell us about morality, love, emotion, autonomy, consciousness, selfhood, free will, moral responsibility, law, the nature of criminal punishment, meaning in life, and purpose.

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