Title:
Neuroexistentialism : meaning, morals, and purpose in the age of neuroscience / edited by Gregg D. Caruso and Owen Flanagan.
Author:
Caruso, Gregg D., editor.
Flanagan, Owen J., editor.
Publication Information:
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
B819 .N45 2018
Abstract:
"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."--Publisher's description
ISBN:
9780190460723
9780190460730
9780190460747
Physical Description:
xvii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Neuroexistentialism : third-wave existentialism / Owen Flanagan, Gregg D. Caruso -- The impact of social neuroscience on Moral Philosophy / Patricia Smith Churchland -- All you need is love(s) : exploring the biological platform of morality / Maureen Sie -- Does neuroscience undermine morality? / Paul Henne, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- The neuroscience of purpose, meaning, and morals / Edmund T. Rolls -- Moral sedimentation / Jesse Prinz -- Choices without choosers : toward a neuropsychologically plausible existentialism / Neil Levy -- Relational authenticity / Shaun Gallagher, Ben Morgan, Naomi Rokotnitz -- Behavior control, meaning, and neuroscience / Walter Glannon -- Two types of Libertarian free will are realized in the human brain / Peter U. Tse -- Hard-incompatibilist existentialism : neuroscience, punishment, and meaning in life / Derk Pereboom, Gregg D. Caruso -- On determinism and human responsibility / Michael S. Gazzaniga -- Free will skepticism, freedom, and criminal behavior / Farah Focquaert, Andrea L. Glenn, Adrian Raine -- Your brain as the source of free will worth wanting : understanding free will in the age of neuroscience / Eddy Nahmias -- Humility, free will beliefs, and existential angst : how we got from a preliminary investigation to a cautionary tale / Thomas Nadelhoffer, Jennifer Cole Wright -- Purpose, freedom, and the laws of nature / Sean M. Carroll -- The neuroscience of criminality, and our sense of justice : an analysis of recent appellate decisions in criminal cases / Valerie Hardcastle -- The neuroscientific non-challenge to meaning, morals, and purpose / Stephen J. Morse.
