Neuroscience and Critique: Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn - Paperback

by Jan De Vos (Editor), Ed Pluth (Editor)

Neuroscience and Critique is a ground-breaking edited collection which considers the impact of neuroscience on contemporary social science and the humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from several disciplines, the contributors draw upon a range of perspectives.

Author Biography

Jan De Vos is a post-doctoral FWO Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical Philosophy of Ghent University, Belgium. His main research area is that of the neurological turn and its implications for ideology critique.

Ed Pluth is professor and chair of the philosophy department at California State University, Chico, USA. He works on issues and figures in contemporary continental philosophy, with special attention to how language and the extra-linguistic are put into relation to each other, and what this relation implies generally about the status of thinking and conscious life.