Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind: Learning from the Unwell Brain Audiobook (Free)

Applying insights from neuroscience to philosophical questions about the self, consciousness, and the healthy mind.

Can we “see” or “come across” consciousness in the mind? How can we create operating definitions of awareness and subjectivity, informed by what modern analysis and technology possess taught us about how exactly the brain works? How do neuronal procedures in the brain relate with our experience of a personal identity? Where does the brain end and the mind begin?

To explore these and other about Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind: Learning from the Unwell Human brain queries, esteemed philosopher and neuroscientist Georg Northoff turns to examples of unhealthy minds. By looking into awareness through its absence-in people in vegetative claims, for example-we can form a model for understanding its presence in an active, healthy person. By evaluating instances of distorted self-recognition in people with psychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia, we can begin to comprehend how the experience of “personal” is made in a stable brain.

Acquiring an integrative approach to understanding the self, consciousness, and what it means to become mentally healthy, this audiobook brings insights from neuroscience to bear on philosophical concerns. Listeners will see a science-grounded study of the human condition with far-reaching implications for psychology, medicine, our daily lives, and beyond.