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Neuroscience and the Soul
Research Group
Is the soul an outdated concept? Brain science, psychology and philosophy are brought to bear on one of the oldest questions.
- Added: 1/10/13
- 14:38
"What Are Emotions For?" A panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions
Research Group
Part 1 of the panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions featuring the members of the Research Group.
- Added: 5-2-12
- 3:43
"What Are Emotions For?" A panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions
Research Group
Part 2 of the panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions featuring the members of the Research Group.
- Added: 5-2-12
- 7:41
"What Are Emotions For?" A panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions
Research Group
Part 3 of the panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions featuring the members of the Research Group.
- Added: 5-2012
- 18:51
"What Are Emotions For?" A panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions
Research Group
Part 4 of the panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions featuring the members of the Research Group.
- Added: 5-2-12
- 21:40
"What Are Emotions For?" A panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions
Research Group
Part 5 of the panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions featuring the members of the Research Group.
- Added: 5-2-12
- 16:12
"What Are Emotions For?" A panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions
Research Group
Part 5 of the panel discussion on the philosophy and science of emotions featuring the members of the Research Group.
- Added: 5-2-12
- 32:37
Rami Gabriel on the Transition from Soul to Mind
Rami Gabriel
A talk on the development of Psychology. How science supplanted religious soul talk.
- Added: 7-28-11
- 15 minutes
Philosophy, Neuroscience and Morality (A Panel Discussion)
Stephen Asma, Rami Gabriel, Tom Greif and Colin Klein
Philosophers and psychologists discuss the new interface between neuroscience and ethics.
- Added: 8-20-11
- 120 minutes
Stephen Asma on BBC World News
Asma
Stephen Asma discusses the universality of monster culture.
- Added: 7-28-11
- 5 minutes
Philosophical Implication of Affective Neuroscience (forthcoming in the JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES)
Jaak Panksepp, Stephen Asma, Rami Gabriel, Tom Greif, Glennon Curran
These papers are based on our Symposium at the COGSCI Conference in 2010. 1. Naturalizing the Mammalian Mind (Jaak Panksepp) 2. Modularity in Cognitive Psychology and Affective Neuroscience (Rami Gabriel) 3. Affective Neuroscience and the Philosophy of Self (Stephen Asma and Tom Greif) 4. Affective Neuroscience and Law (Glennon Curran and Rami Gabriel)
- Added: 9-1-2011
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Affective and Cognitive Integration and the Future of Humanity
Tom Greif
This paper examines recent research on affective neuroscience (especially Jaak Panksepp's empirical work) and incorporates it into larger questions of social organization. Unlike the old social conservative arguments that start from biological premises, this paper explores the socially liberal and even radical possibilities contained in a proper understanding of the mind-brain.
- Added: 7-21-2011
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Psychology as a Human Nature Project (a brief primer)
Rami Gabriel
Modern experimental psychology, although it is rarely explicitly acknowledged, is a human nature project. Its method is piecing together empirical evidence about the abilities that every human possesses into a coherent picture of the functional structure of the human mind. Modern psychologists claim the mind is caused by, or grounded in, a biological substrate, the body and more specifically, the brain. Early evidence in favor of this approach in the last fifty years is the successful mapping of a coherent and species-wide anatomical model of the human brain. If the main characteristic all humans share is in fact the mind, then modern psychology is a human nature project because it is the study of the mindbrain. In this paper, I discuss the neural theory of human nature and some problems that this project must face up to.
- Added: 8-1-2011
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The Mind and the Soul
Rami Gabriel
In modern psychology and philosophy, the concept soul has largely been replaced by the concept mind, but does the concept mind fulfill the same role as the concept soul? The purpose of this paper is to answer this question.
- Added: 8-5-11
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Soul Talk
Stephen Asma
This essay questions the usual dichotomy of materialism and spiritualism by focusing on the language of "soul" talk. Linguistic analysis reveals a rich emotional and expressive language, which tells us more about human vulnerability than spiritual metaphysics. Instead of dismissing this emotional language (as the positivists did), we should look on it as a resource for understanding existential human concerns. This approach allows for some compatibility between religious talk and scientific naturalism.
- Added: 8-1-2011
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May 1, 2013 | 6:00 p.m.
"Body-Language, Gut-Feelings, and Gossip: The Evolution of Social Intelligence”