Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind

<p>This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind.</p><p>The rise of cognitive neuroscience has prompted a rethinking of levels computation representation psychological explanation and the relation between psychology and neuroscience. Despite these advances many philosophers and scientists of the mind continue to write as though cognitive neuroscience didn’t exist and psychology remains autonomous from neuroscience or perhaps they maintain that cognitive neuroscience has not deepened our understanding of the mind. The chapters in this volume showcase important ways in which cognitive neuroscience makes a profound difference to our understanding of the mind. The contributors address a wide range of topics including explanation computation representation inference emotion language intention and thought. Together they demonstrate the ways in which cognitive neuroscience supersedes traditional cognitive science and supports a unified integrated multilevel mechanistic neurocomputational account of the mind.</p><p><i>Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind</i> is essential reading for scholars and advanced students interested in the foundations of the philosophy of mind and the mind sciences.</p>