Antonio Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind has some intriguing new ideas based on solid science and makes a grand claim, but won’t get its hands dirty
WHEN combining neuroscience and philosophy, one popular strategy is to present many surprising neuroscientific results and then breathlessly assemble them into a grand speculative claim about “what it all means”. A second strategy is to roll up one’s sleeves and dig into a specific area of neuroscience, presenting not only the eye-opening results but also the methods and rationales behind them to argue precise philosophical points.
Self Comes to Mind is an example…
