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Beskrivning
This interdisciplinary book ties the historical work of Descartes to his successors through current research and critical overviews on the neuroscience of consciousness, the brain, and cognition.
Paolo Pecere is a Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Roma TRE. His research has focused on the history of philosophy of science from Kant to the 20th century. He has written a number of books, including La filosofia della natura in Kant (2009) and Meccanica quantistica rappresentazione realtà (2011, with A. Bassi and N. Argentieri). He also edited the special issue “Philosophy and the books of Quaestio” of the Yearbook for the History of Metaphysics (2011) and the collection Il libro della natura (2 vols., 2015).
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: Reconsidering the Cartesian Turn.- 1. Descartes’ double legacy.- 2. Metaphysics, mechanism and the conscious mind.- 3. Matter, active powers and the limits of knowledge.- 4. Physiology of mind and autonomy of reason: a Kantian legacy.- 5. Consciousness and the unconscious: between physiology and psychology.- 6. Twin worlds: materialism, panpsychism and the problem with sensation.- 7. “Philosophy of mind” and neuroscience: evidence, hypothesis, critique.