Neuroscience and Society
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Neuroscience and Society

The Interface of Neuroscience and the Social Sciences

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eBook - ePub

Neuroscience and Society

The Interface of Neuroscience and the Social Sciences

About this book

Advances in neuroscience research are rapidly redefining what it means to be human. The absence of the brain/mind dichotomy has, in turn, removed the separation between our brain biology and our sociocultural experiences, raising questions for social sciences to address. How responsible are we, as individuals, for our actions? Do we have free will? Is it ethical for us to peer into others' brains? How are our collective social cultural norms influenced by our brain function? At the same time, neuroscientists need to develop better intuition about the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research. Close collaboration between neuroscience and social sciences is the best way forward.

This book acts as an introduction to these and other issues that lie at the interface of neuroscience and social sciences, using the physiological underpinnings of our decision-making processes as a framework. Examples of topics addressed here are:

  • Neuroscience and economics
  • Neuroscience and law
  • Neuroscience and ethics
  • Neuroscience and mental health
  • Neuroscience of religion and humour

The book is intended for students of neuroscience and social sciences, as well as readers generally interested in the human condition. It is hoped that the book will stimulate cross-disciplinary thinking and inspire a new generation of thinkers who are willing to look at both social sciences and neuroscience research with a different lens. Such bridge builders will be the pioneers of the next level of interrogation at this emerging interface.

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Yes, you can access Neuroscience and Society by Sukumar Vijayaraghavan,Gideon Felsen,Gidon Felsen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Ciencias biológicas & Neurociencia. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040398432
Topic
Ciencias biológicas
Subtopic
Neurociencia

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1: Introduction: The Neuroscience of Decision Making
  10. Chapter 2: Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics: A Brief History and Overview
  11. Chapter 3: Neuroscience and the Free Will Debate
  12. Chapter 4: Neurolaw: Overview, Past, Present, Future
  13. Chapter 5: Neurolaw and Psychiatry
  14. Chapter 6: Stochastic Determinism and Criminal Law
  15. Chapter 7: Neuroscience in Psychiatry
  16. Chapter 8: Introduction to Neuroethics
  17. Chapter 9: The Capacity for Evaluation of the Human Brain and Its Implications for an Artificial Moral Subject
  18. Chapter 10: The Neuroscience of Humor
  19. Chapter 11: The Neuroscientific Study of Religious and Spiritual Phenomena
  20. Index