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The Kent State University’s Neuroscience and the Humanities Workgroup Blog is now live here! Following our last meeting of the semester yesterday, I created the blog and its first entries. Other workgroup members can contribute to the blog’s content, and anyone can contribute in the comments on each post. If you are an interdisciplinary researcher …
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At the Neuroscience and the Humanities Workgroup meeting on November 28, 2011, we discussed: Casebeer, William D. and Patricia S. Churchland. “The Neural Mechanisms of Moral Cognition: A Multiple-Aspect Approach to Moral Judgment and Decision-Making.” Biology and Philosophy 18 (2003): 169–194. My sketch of notes prior to the meeting: neural mechanisms of moral cognition (NMMC) norms …
At the November 22, 2011 meeting of the Kent State University Neurosciences and the Humanities Workgroup, we discussed: Jack, Jordynn. “What are Neurorhetorics?” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40.5: 411-437. Jack, Jordynn and L. Gregory Appelbaum. “‘This is Your Brain on Rhetoric’: Research Directions for Neurorhetorics.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40.5: 411-437. Neurorhetorics yields two perspectives > rhetorics …
At the November 7, 2011 meeting of the Neurosciences and the Humanities Workgroup at Kent State University, we discussed the following articles: Pallanti, Stefano. “Unique Contributions of Brain Stimulation to the Study of Consciousness: Where Neuroscience Meets Philosophy.” CNS Spectr 15:3 (March 2010): 154-156. Lagercrantz, Hugo and Jean-Pierre Changeux. “Basic Consciousness of the Newborn.” Seminars in …
At the meeting on October 24 ,2011 of the Neurosciences and the Humanities Workgroup at Kent State University, we discussed Thomas Metzinger’s The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (2009). These are my notes from the meeting and the ensuing discussion. “ego machines” (207) “arose from evolution on …
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