Tibor Solymosi - Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism

New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Series editors: John Sutton, Macquarie University and Richard Menary, Macquarie University.

This series brings together work that takes cognitive science in new directions. Hitherto, philosophical reflection on cognitive science or perhaps better, philosophical contribution to the interdisciplinary field that is cognitive science has for the most part come from philosophers with a commitment to a representationalist model of the mind.

However, as cognitive science continues to make advances, especially in its neuroscience and robotics aspects, there is growing discontent with the representationalism of traditional philosophical interpretations of cognition. Cognitive scientists and philosophers have turned to a variety of sources phenomenology and dynamic systems theory foremost among them to date to rethink cognition as the direction of the action of an embodied and affectively attuned organism embedded in its social world, a stance that sees representation as only one tool of cognition, and a derived one at that.

To foster this growing interest in rethinking traditional philosophical notions of cognition using phenomenology, dynamic systems theory, and perhaps other approaches yet to be identified we dedicate this series to New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science.

Titles include:

Robyn Bluhm, Anne Jaap Jacobson and Heidi Maibom (editors)

NEUROFEMINISM

Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive

Jesse Butler

RETHINKING INTROSPECTION

A Pluralist Approach to the First-Person Perspective

Massimiliano Cappuccio and Tom Froese (editors)

ENACTIVE COGNITION AT THE EDGE OF SENSE-MAKING

Making Sense of Non-sense

Anne Jaap Jacobson

KEEPING THE WORLD IN MIND

Mental Representations and the Sciences of the Mind

Julian Kiverstein & Michael Wheeler (editors)

HEIDEGGER AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Michelle Maiese

EMBODIMENT, EMOTION, AND COGNITION

Richard Menary

COGNITIVE INTEGRATION

Mind and Cognition Unbounded

Zdravko Radman (editor)

KNOWING WITHOUT THINKING

Mind, Action, Cognition and the Phenomenon of the Background

Matthew Ratcliffe

RETHINKING COMMONSENSE PSYCHOLOGY

A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Stimulation

Jay Schulkin (editor)

ACTION, PERCEPTION AND THE BRAIN

Tibor Solymosi and John R. Shook (editors)

NEUROSCIENCE, NEUROPHILOSOPHY AND PRAGMATISM

Brains at Work with the World

Robert Welshon

NIETZSCHE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Forthcoming titles

Miranda Anderson

THE RENAISSANCE EXTENDED MIND

Maxime Doyon and Thiemo Breyer

NORMATIVITY IN PERCEPTION

Matt Hayler

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGY USE

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Also by John R. Shook

DEWEYS EMPIRICAL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE AND REALITY (2000)

PRAGMATIC NATURALISM AND REALISM (editor, 2003)

A COMPANION TO PRAGMATISM (co-editor with Joseph Margolis, 2006)

F. C. S. SCHILLER ON PRAGMATISM AND HUMANISM: SELECTED WRITINGS, 18911939 (co-editor with Hugh Mcdonald, 2008)

THE FUTURE OF NATURALISM (co-editor with Paul Kurtz, 2009)

JOHN DEWEYS PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRIT, WITH DEWEYS 1897 LECTURES ON HEGEL (co-author with James A. Good, 2010)

DEWEYS ENDURING IMPACT: ESSAYS ON AMERICAS PHILOSOPHER (co-editor with Paul Kurtz, 2011)

THE ESSENTIAL WILLIAM JAMES (editor, 2011)

PRAGMATIST NEUROPHILOSOPHY: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY AND THE BRAIN (co-editor with Tibor Solymosi, 2014)

DEWEYS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY: DEMOCRACY AS EDUCATION (2014)

Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism

Brains at Work with the World

Edited by

Tibor Solymosi

Mercyhurst University, USA

John R. Shook

University at Buffalo, USA

Selection, introduction and editorial matter Tibor Solymosi and John R. Shook 2014

Chapters Individual authors 2014

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Contents

John R. Shook and Tibor Solymosi

Mark Johnson

W. Teed Rockwell

Jay Schulkin

Jeffrey B. Wagman and Anthony Chemero

David D. Franks

Joel Krueger

Robert Arp

Bill Bywater and Zachary Piso

Alireza Moula, Antony J. Puddephatt, and Simin Mohseni

Eric Racine

Markate Daly

Tibor Solymosi

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

The essays collected here are representative but not exhaustive of the connections and advancements to be made between neuroscience and pragmatism. These 13 chapters sort into four major themes that together illuminate what we have been calling neuropragmatism. Part I examines the historical, theoretical, and empirical connections between neuroscience and pragmatism, as well as its philosophical import. In .

Part II focuses on particular contemporary issues having to do with cognition, emotion, and their place in the world. Jeffrey B. Wagman and Anthony Chemero, in , elaborates the further consequences of John Deweys view of emotion in light of recent empirical research.