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Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences

Proceedings of the Second Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, May 15–17, 1975

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  • © 1976

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  1. Stuart F. Spicker

    1. University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

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  2. H. Tristram Engelhardt

    1. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 2)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Stuart F. Spicker, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 1-11

  3. Historical Foundations of Modern Neurology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Varieties of Cartesian Experience in Early Nineteenth Century Neurophysiology

      • William F. Bynum
      Pages 15-35

    3. Historical Development of the Concept of Hemispheric Cerebral Dominance

      • Arthur Benton
      Pages 35-57

    4. Reflections on Our Condition: The Geography of Embodiment

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 59-68

  4. Philosophical Implications of Psychosurgery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Persons and Psychosurgery

      • Joseph Margolis
      Pages 71-84

    3. Psychosurgery: What’s The Issue?

      • Jerry A. Fodor
      Pages 85-94

  5. Neural Integration and the Emergence of Consciousness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Mind, It Does Matter

      • Karl H. Pribram
      Pages 97-111

    3. Mind and Brain: The Embodied Person

      • Marjorie Grene
      Pages 113-129

    4. The Misleading Mediation of the Mental

      • Hubert Dreyfus
      Pages 131-140

  6. The Causal Aspect of the Psycho-Physical Problem: Implications for Neuro-Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. On The Power or Impotence of Subjectivity

      • Hans Jonas
      Pages 143-161

    3. The Spurious Psyche-Soma Distinction

      • Stuart F. Spicker
      Pages 163-177

  7. Altered Affective Responses to Pain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Pain and Unpleasantness

      • George Pitcher
      Pages 181-196

    3. Pain — The Existential Symptom

      • David Bakan
      Pages 197-207

    4. The Evaluation of Pain Responses: A Need for Improved Measures

      • Bernard Tursky
      Pages 209-219
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Although the investigation and regulation of the faculties of the human mind appear to be the proper and sole concern of philosophers, you see that they are in some part nevertheless so little foreign to the medical forum that while someone may deny that they are proper to the physician he cannot deny that physicians have the obliga­ tion to philosophize. Jerome Gaub, De regimine mentis, IV, 10 ([ 10], p. 40) The Second Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, whose principal theme was 'Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences,' convened at the University of Connecticut Health Center at the invitation of Robert U. Massey, Dean of the School of Medicine, during May 15, 16, and 17, 1975. The Proceedings constitute this volume. At this Symposium we intended to realize sentiments which Sir John Eccles ex­ pressed as director of a Study Week of the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, CiWl del Vaticano, in the fall of 1964: "Certainly when one comes to a [study] . . . devoted to brain and mind it is not possible to exclude relations with philosophy" ([5], p. viii). During that study week in 1964, a group of distinguished biomedical and behavioral scientists met under the director­ ship of Sir John C. Eccles to relate psychology to what Sir John called 'the Neurosciences. ' The purpose of that study week was to treat issues con­ cerning the functions of the brain and, in particular, to concentrate upon the relations between brain functions and consciousness.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

    Stuart F. Spicker

  • University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA

    H. Tristram Engelhardt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Second Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, May 15–17, 1975

  • Editors: Stuart F. Spicker, H. Tristram Engelhardt

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1473-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1976

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0672-0Published: 31 March 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1475-5Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1473-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 274

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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