Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience /
This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes' Jr., and the pragmatist tradition of John Dewey. Schulkin proposes that human problem solving and the law are tied to a nat...
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Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Holmes' Critical Experience in War
- 3. Experience, Inference and Surviving
- 4. Holmes, Pragmatism and Nature
- 5. Duty, Surviving, Social Contract
- 6. Emersonian Sensibilities
- 7. Bounded Choice, Human Freedom and Problem Solving
- 8. Naturalizing Decision-Making
- 9. Ethics, Body Politic, and Neuroscience
- 10. Neuroscientific Considerations and the Law
- 11. Conclusion. .