Neuroculture : on the implications of brain science / by Edmund T. Rolls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rolls, Edmund T.

Contributor:

Gail and Warren Lieberfarb Mental Health and Neuroscience Library Resources Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain.

Neurosciences.

Physical Description:

xiii, 394 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Neuroculture: On the implications of brain science for understanding: Aesthetics, Emotion, Rational thought, Decision-making, Philosophy of mind including free will and consciousness, Economics, Ethics, Religion, Politics, and Psychiatry. Neuroculture considers the implications of our modern understanding of how the brain works, and how it was shaped by evolution, for understanding issues in many of the above areas. For example: Why do we have emotions? What are the bases of social behaviour? What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? How, and why, do we appreciate art? How do we make decisions? Are there biological foundations to ethical behaviour? Written to appeal to students and researchers across the sciences and humanities, Neuroculture will be fascinating reading for those in neuroscience, psychology, biology, medicine, economics, animal behaviour, psychiatry, philosophy, the arts-indeed anyone interested in why we behave as we do. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Neuroscience

3. Neuroaffect

4. Neurosociality

5. Neuroreason

6. Neurophilosophy

7. Neuroaesthetics

8 . Neuroeconomics

9. Neuroethics

10. Neuropsychiatry

11. Neuroreligion

12. Neuropolitics

13. Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gail and Warren Lieberfarb Mental Health and Neuroscience Library Resources Fund.

ISBN:

9780199695478

0199695474

OCLC:

755071588