Introduction: Contested narratives of the mind and the brain: Neuro/psychological knowledge in popular debates and everyday life

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Susanne Schregel ◽  
Tineke Broer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Outright Rejection ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The University ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Contested Narratives

This special section evolved out of a workshop entitled ‘Minds and Brains in Everyday Life: Embedding and Negotiating Scientific Concepts in Popular Discourses’, held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Our discussions at the workshop and for this special section began with the observation that scientific interpretations and everyday explanations regularly meet and come together in debates about aspects of the mind and the brain. Such entanglements between science and the wider public have already been studied from multiple perspectives in history and the social sciences. Recently, however, warnings have intensified that researchers also need to take into account the limitations that certain scientific claims may encounter in everyday life, and to remain methodologically open to alternative explanations that are not derived from forms of (neuro)psychological knowledge. We suggest that focusing on contested narratives of the mind and the brain may be one approach to studying the interaction between science and the larger public, as well as investigating the ignorance, limits, counterforces, and outright rejection that scientific concepts may encounter in everyday life.

Explaining the Mind in Terms of the Brain: Two Challenges

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane B. Howieson
Keyword(s):  
Health Psychology ◽  
New York ◽  
New York University ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The University ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older, by Elkhonon Goldberg. 2005. New York: Gotham Books. 337pp., $26.00 (HB).Creativity and the Brain, by Kenneth M. Heilman. 2005. New York: Psychology Press. 207 pp., $55.00 (HB).Doctors Goldberg and Heilman have both written absorbing accounts of the brain for the interested public as well as scientists that address some of the most intriguing questions in neuroscience, wisdom and creativity. Dr. Goldberg is a Clinical Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine and a valuable and innovative contributor to the theoretical foundations of neuropsychology. Dr. Heilman, a Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Health Psychology at the University of Florida, is recognized for his many contributions to understanding brain mechanisms underlying behavior as well as his legacy as a teacher and mentor for many neuroscientists.

1. Facts as to Brain-Work; in Illustration of the New and Old Methods of Philosophical Inquiry in Scotland

1872 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 145-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Laycock
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Psychology ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The University ◽  
The Brain

A few words in explanation are needed. In my summer course of lectures on Medical Psychology and Mental Diseases delivered in the University, I have to investigate the human mind in its practical relations to the body, and especially I have to teach how each influences the other, so that the physician, or any intelligent person, may be able to modify these relations beneficially. The starting-point in these inquiries is the fundamental fact of experience, that no changes in the mind or the consciousness of whatever kind can or do arise, or continue, without a corresponding series of changes somewhere in the brain-tissue.

scholarly journals The Brain Buskers Project: taking science to the streets

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-52
Author(s):  
Ana Teresa Barros-Viegas ◽  
João Cardoso ◽  
Sara Varela Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Brain

Brain Buskers is an initiative developed by the University of Coimbra in Portugal. The project aims to join science with the daily and cultural life of the city in order to engage local communities. Its informal nature promotes the understanding of biochemistry in everyday life, demystifying the image of scientists and increasing scientific literacy. The project has also helped to inspire scientists with the skills and confidence to hold and inspire a passing audience with science.

Lighting Up the Brain to Illuminate the Mind

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 713-716
Author(s):  
Ellen S. Berscheid
Keyword(s):  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

How Does the Brain Make the Mind? We Do Not Know.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Was
Keyword(s):  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

MOBIS-COVID19/06: Results as of 11/05/2020

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Molloy ◽  
Christopher Tchervenkov ◽  
Thomas Schatzmann ◽  
Beaumont Schoeman ◽  
Beat Hintermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Daily Mobility ◽  
The University ◽  
At Home

To slow down the spread of the Coronavirus, the population has been instructed to stay<br>at home if possible. This measure consequently has a major impact on our daily mobility<br>behaviour. But who is being affected, and how? The MOBIS-COVID-19 research project,<br>an initiative of ETH Zurich and the University of Basel, is a continuation of the original<br>MOBIS study. The aim of the project is to get a picture of how the crisis is affecting<br>mobility and everyday life in Switzerland.

Big Heads title page

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
vernon thornton
Keyword(s):  
Title Page ◽  
Language Of Thought ◽  
Correct Version ◽  
Evolutionary Context ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

A description of of the mind and its relationship to the brain, set in an evolutionary context. Introduction of a correct version of 'language-of-thought' called 'thinkish'.

Zombies and Dolls

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Massimini ◽  
Giulio Tononi
Keyword(s):  
Body Problem ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
Turing Test ◽  
Hard Problem ◽  
Mind Body Problem ◽  
The Hard Problem ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

This chapter uses thought experiments and practical examples to introduce, in a very accessible way, the hard problem of consciousness. Soon, machines may behave like us to pass the Turing test and scientists may succeed in copying and simulating the inner workings of the brain. Will all this take us any closer to solving the mysteries of consciousness? The reader is taken to meet different kind of zombies, the philosophical, the digital, and the inner ones, to understand why many, scientists and philosophers alike, doubt that the mind–body problem will ever be solved.

scholarly journals Agency, Responsibility, Selves, and the Mechanical Mind

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Fiorella Battaglia
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Extended Mind ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Area Of Concern ◽  
Third Person Perspective ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Brain

Moral issues arise not only when neural technology directly influences and affects people’s lives, but also when the impact of its interventions indirectly conceptualizes the mind in new, and unexpected ways. It is the case that theories of consciousness, theories of subjectivity, and third person perspective on the brain provide rival perspectives addressing the mind. Through a review of these three main approaches to the mind, and particularly as applied to an “extended mind”, the paper identifies a major area of transformation in philosophy of action, which is understood in terms of additional epistemic devices—including a legal perspective of regulating the human–machine interaction and a personality theory of the symbiotic connection between human and machine. I argue this is a new area of concern within philosophy, which will be characterized in terms of self-objectification, which becomes “alienation” following Ernst Kapp’s philosophy of technology. The paper argues that intervening in the brain can affect how we conceptualize the mind and modify its predicaments.

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