Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I Social Neuroscience and Philosophy 
1 The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment: Empirical and Philosophical Developments 17
2 The Nature of Empathy 49
3 I Did That! Biomarkers of Volitional and Free Agency 79
4 Me, My (Moral) Self, and I 111
5 Neuroscience and Mental Illness 139
6 Ethical Implications of Neurobiologically Informed Risk Assessment for Criminal Justice Decisions: A Case for Pragmatism 161
7 Ethical Issues Raised by Recent Developments in Neuroscience: The Case of Optogenetics 195
II Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy 
8 Touch and Other Somatosensory Senses 211
9 What Do Models of Visual Perception Tell Us about Visual Phenomenology? 241
10 The Neural Substrates of Conscious Perception without Performance Confounds 285
11 Memory Structure and Cognitive Maps 325
12 Implications from the Philosophy of Concepts for the Neuroscience of Memory Systems 353
13 The Scientific Study of Passive Thinking: Methods of Mind-Wandering Research 389
14 Neuroscience and Cognitive Ontology: A Case for Pluralism 427
Glossary 467
Contributors 477
Index 483

About the Author

Felipe De Brigard is Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Duke University and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, is Core Faculty at Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Philosophy Department and Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, is Core Faculty at Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and has secondary appointments in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and in the Duke University Law School.

Reviews

"[A] schooling for traditional philosophers on scientific data relevant for the topics they have previously deemed purely theoretical...one that philosophers of morality and mind should (continue to) take seriously....[P]itched at the right level for philosophers to read and appreciate—and I highly recommend that philosophers of mind (and cognate areas) do so. For knowing how the brain works and how it shapes our various mental experiences is fundamental to getting philosophizing about ourselves right."
—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"It is rare to find such direct and sustained correspondence; this is truly a monumental interdisciplinary academic achievement."
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