Neuropsychology and Philosophy of Mind in Process: Essays in Honor of Jason W. Brown

by Maria Pachalska (Editor), Michel Weber (Editor)

Overview

This volume celebrates the life achievements of Jason W. Brown, who, along with Jean Piaget, Heinz Werner, Alexander Luria and the Würzburg school, has significantly contributed to the development of a process-based theory of brain/mind capable of challenging the currently fashionable modularist or cybernetic approaches to understanding human thought and feeling. As a paradigm, Brown's microgenetic theory is thus applicable in both brain science (where Brown was inspired by the pioneering work of Schilder and Pick) and the philosophy of mind (where the influence of Bergson, Whitehead, Cassirer, and Merleau-Ponty can be seen). Essays with a range of focus as wide as Brown's expertise have been collected in such diverse areas as neuropsychology (microstructure of action, symptomatology, neuro-rehabilitation, neurolinguistics, locationism), theoretical psychology (consciousness, hypnosis, morphogenesis, personality development, psychoanalysis, Buddhist psychology, mysticism), and philosophy of mind (evolutionary epistemology, emergence/novelty/creativity, subjectivity, will and action, Whiteheadian process philosophy).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110329322
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	11/26/2008
Series:	Process Thought , #18
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Maria Pachalska is professor of neuropsychology at Gdansk University (Poland) and a clinical consultant at the Center for Cognition and Communication, New York. She is author of numerous international publications.

Michel Weber is the director of the Centre for Philosophical Practice “Chromatiques whiteheadiennes” (Brussels).