Nikolas Rose;, Joelle M. Abi-Rached. Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind. xii + 335 pp., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. $16.95 (paper).

Isis ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Gere
Keyword(s):  
Princeton University ◽  
Brain Sciences ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals Construct Stabilization and the Unity of the Mind-Brain Sciences

2016 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 662-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Anne Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Brain Sciences ◽  
The Mind

Coda

2018 ◽  
pp. 277-280
Author(s):  
Erika Lorraine Milam
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Ongoing Study ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brain Sciences ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
The Mind

This concluding chapter reflects on the lessons presented by this volume as a whole and considers the ongoing study into the origins of humanity in the post-1970s era. In the decades after, readers have not lost their passion for epic evolutionary dramas in which the entirety of human history unfolds before their eyes. Yet when students today respond to the question “What makes us human?” they are far more likely to invoke neurological facts than paleontological ones. The public battlefield over violence and cooperation has since shifted to new ground in the mind and brain sciences. Despite the apparent polarization of scientists writing about human nature into culture- and biology-oriented positions, the intellectual landscape defined by scientists working on the interaction between culture and biology has continued to flourish.

scholarly journals ‘It’s All Done With Mirrors’: V.S. Ramachandran and the Material Culture of Phantom Limb Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Phantom Limb ◽  
Mirror Therapy ◽  
Brain Sciences ◽  
Mirror Box ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
Dualistic Ontology ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Phantom Limbs

This article examines the material culture of neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran’s research into phantom limbs. In the 1990s Ramachandran used a ‘mirror box’ to ‘resurrect’ phantom limbs and thus to treat the pain that often accompanied them. The experimental success of his mirror therapy led Ramachandran to see mirrors as a useful model of brain function, a tendency that explains his attraction to work on ‘mirror neurons’. I argue that Ramachandran’s fascination with and repeated appeal to the mirror can be explained by the way it allowed him to confront a perennial problem in the mind and brain sciences, that of the relationship between a supposedly immaterial mind and a material brain. By producing what Ramachandran called a ‘virtual reality’, relating in varied and complex ways to the material world, the mirror reproduced a form of psycho-physical parallelism and dualistic ontology, while conforming to the materialist norms of neuroscience today.

Reduction, Explanatory Extension, and the Mind/Brain Sciences

1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Keyword(s):  
Brain Sciences ◽  
The Mind
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