Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language

Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language
By Maxwell Bennett, Daniel Dennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle

• Publisher: Columbia University Press


• Number Of Pages: 232


• Publication Date: 2007-03-15


• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0231140444


• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780231140447


• Binding: Hardcover

Summary: Conceptual confusions
Rating: 3

That philosophy should unravel conceptual confusions in neuroscience or other sciences is a principal theme of the authors of Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, which book is in the presently reviewed one discussed by those authors, Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker, and defended by them in response to criticisms by Daniel Dennett and John Searle.

However, major conceptual confusion characterizes the arguments of authors Bennett and Hacker themselves.

Let me begin by noting that all of these authors appear to subscribe to physicalism, describable as holding that all reality is reducible to physical phenomena. Consequently it is understandable that they will aim to fit their arguments into that straightjacket. A well-known expression of this attitude is the intense opposition to Cartesian dualism, the view by Descartes that mind and body, or mind and matter, are two distinct substances.

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