Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism: Brains at Work with the World

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Neuropragmatism and the Reconstruction of Scientific and Humanistic Worldviews....Pages 3-36
Keeping the Pragmatism in Neuropragmatism....Pages 37-56
How Computational Neuroscience Revealed that the Pragmatists Were Right....Pages 57-70
Pragmatism, Cognitive Capacity and Brain Function....Pages 71-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
The End of the Debate over Extended Cognition....Pages 105-124
Knowing and the Known: Brain Science and an Empirically Responsible Epistemology....Pages 125-139
Dewey’s Rejection of the Emotion/ Expression Distinction....Pages 140-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Finding Unapparent Connections: How Our Hominin Ancestors Evolved Creativity by Solving Practical Problems....Pages 165-184
Neuropragmatism and Apprenticeship: A Model for Education....Pages 185-214
A Neuropragmatist Framework for Childhood Education: Integrating Pragmatism and Neuroscience to Actualize Article 29 of the UN Child Convention....Pages 215-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Pragmatism and the Contribution of Neuroscience to Ethics....Pages 243-263
Pragmatist Ethics: A Dynamical Theory Based on Active Responsibility....Pages 264-290
Moral First Aid for a Neuroscientific Age....Pages 291-317
Back Matter....Pages 319-326