Screen LibraryPragmatism and the search for coherence in neuroscience /
"Naturalizing how we know things is grounded inquiry within a wide view, in which the biological sciences matter greatly. Our sense of knowing is essentially social. In other words, the knowing process is within the larger sets of events in which the personal and the professional intersect. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Naturalizing how we know things is grounded inquiry within a wide view, in which the biological sciences matter greatly. Our sense of knowing is essentially social. In other words, the knowing process is within the larger sets of events in which the personal and the professional intersect. The experimental and the larger scientific worlds feed off each other endlessly, and the boundaries are porous. In neuroscience, like other forms of inquiry, the investigations are difficult, the fall downward from unreasonable expectation is too easy - a mere half neuron away. Disappointment is a real fa |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 254 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-244) and index. |
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9781137526724 (hardback) : 1137526726 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | RC321 |
| CLC: | Q189 |
| Call Number: | Q189/S386 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Beginnings: Foraging and Neuroscience -- 1. Foraging, Learning and Knowing -- 2. Keeping Track of Objects in a Visual Space -- 3. Active Brains in Search and Satisfaction -- 4. Coping and Sampling in Biological Machinery -- 5. A Field Expanding -- 6. Motivation, Endurance in an Adaptive Brain -- 7. Some Therapeutic Expectations, Strategies, and Alternatives -- Conclusion: Neuroscience, Experience and the Larger Culture. |