Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience

From the book reviews: "The editors of and contributors to this volume are to be commended for rescuing from oblivion a number of historical philosophers and neuroscientists from classical Greece to the present. ... This volume is highly recommended for programs in the history of psychology and neuroscience, cognitive science, and the philosophy of mind." (Paul E. Tibbetts, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 90 (1), March, 2015) "Any professional in the biological and social sciences with an interest in the genesis of mind-body problems or the current status of consciousness related to brain functioning would profit from reading this volume. ... Anyone teaching a history of psychology or of neuroscience at the graduate level could use this text. ... The collected essays provide an excellent selective history of the 'hard problem' and a sense of current theorizing about the problem." (Dennis Jowaisas, PsyCRITIQUES, Vol. 60 (9), March, 2015)

• Introduction; C.U.M.Smith and H.A. Whitaker.- Chapter 1. Beginnings: ventricular neuropsychology; C.U.M.Smith.- Chapter 2. Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of Mind and Brain Sciences; William Meehan.- Chapter 3. ‘Struck, As It Were, With Madness:’ The Phenomenology of Animal Spirits in the Neurology of Thomas Willis; Kathryn Tabb.- Chapter 4. Hooke’s mechanical mind; J.J. MacIntosh.- Chapter 5. Joseph Priestley: An instructive 18th century perspective on the mind-body problem; Alan Beretta.- Chapter 6. Reflections of western thinking on 19th C Ottoman thought: A critique of the 'hard-problem' by Spyridon Mavrogenis; George Anogianakis.- Chapter 7. George Henry Lewes (1817–1878): Embodied Cognition, Vitalism, and the Evolution of Symbolic Perception; Huw Price.- Chapter 8. Herbert Spencer: brain, mind and the ‘hard problem’; C.U.M.Smith.- Chapter 9. Problems of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and America Neurology; J Wayne Lazar.- Chapter 10. Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Reflections on Consciousness ; Gabriel Finkelstein.- Chapter 11. William James and the “Theatre” of Consciousness; Stephanie L. Hawkins.- Chapter 12. The enigmatic deciphering of the neuronal code of word meaning; Andrew C. Papanicolaou.- Chapter 13. Alfred North Whitehead and the history of consciousness; Laura Hyatt Edwards.- Chapter 14. The ‘hard problem’ and the Cartesian strand in British neurophysiology: Huxley, Foster, Sherrington, Eccles; C.U.M.Smith.- Chapter 15. Is there a link between quantum mechanics and consciousness?; Barry K Ward.- Chapter 16. Consciousness and neuronal microtubules: the Penrose-Hameroff quantum model in retrospect; Eugenio Frixione.- Chapter 17. Zombie Dawn: Slavery and the Self in the Twenty-first Century; David Hawkes.- Chapter 18. Mind and Brain: Toward an Understanding of Dualism; Kristopher Phillips, Alan Beretta and Harry Whitaker.