Title | Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Second Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, May 15-17, 1975 / edited by Stuart F. Spicker, H. Tristram Engelhardt |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1976 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1473-1 |
Descript | VI, 274 p. online resource |
Section I / Historical Foundations of Modern Neurology -- Varieties of Cartesian Experience in Early Nineteenth Century Neurophysiology -- Historical Development of the Concept of Hemispheric Cerebral Dominance -- Reflections on Our Condition: The Geography of Embodiment Comments on โVarieties of Cartesian Experience in Early Nineteenth Century Neurophysiologyโ and โHistorical Development of the Concept of Hemispheric Cerebral Dominanceโ -- Section II / Philosophical Implications of Psychosurgery -- Persons and Psychosurgery -- Psychosurgery: Whatโs the Issue? Comments on โPersons and Psychosurgeryโ -- Section III / Neural Integration and the Emergence of Consciousness -- Mind, It Does Matter -- Mind and Brain: The Embodied Person -- The Misleading Mediation of the Mental: Comments, on โMind, It Does Matterโ and โMind and Brain: The Embodied Personโ -- Section IV / The Causal Aspect of the Psycho-Physical Problem: Implications for Neuro-Medicine -- On the Power or Impotence of Subjectivity -- The Spurious Psyche-Soma Distinction: Comments on โOn the Power or Impotence of Subjectivityโ -- Section V / Altered Affective Responses to Pain -- Pain and Unpleasantness -- Pain โ The Existential Symptom -- The Evaluation of Pain Responses: A Need for Improved Measures -- Pain and Suffering: Comments on โPain and Unpleasantness,โ โPain โ The Existential Symptom,โ and โThe Evaluation of Pain Responses: A Need for Improved Measuresโ -- Section VI / The Function of Philosophical Concepts in the Neuro-Medical Sciences -- Round-Table Discussion -- Notes on Contributors