Abstract: The Philosophy of Affective Neuroscience Our symposium showcases the interdisciplinary cutting edge innovations of the cognitive sciences. It is the unique meeting of the founder of Affective Neuroscience with an interdisciplinary set of scholars who follow the implications of his work through the philosophy of psychology, the philosophy of Self, and neuroscience and law. Speakers Stephen Asma Rami Gabriel Thomas Greif Moderator Jaak Panksepp Moderator Jaak Panksepp, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Bowling Green State University. Head, Affective Neuroscience Research, Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Northwestern University. In addition to 300+ scientific articles, I have co-edited the multivolume Handbook of the Hypothalamus and of Emotions and Psychopathology, a series in Advances in Biological Psychiatry and most recently a Textbook of Biological Psychiatry (Wiley, 2004), My other textbook, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Oxford, 1998), has helped inaugurate a new field of inquiry which attempts to probe the affective infrastructure of the mammalian brain. Our working assumption is that all of consciousness was built on affective value systems during the long course of brain evolution Speakers Rami Gabriel, Ph.D in Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences from University of California, Santa Barbara. Dissertation concerned non-conscious affective processes in a Prosopagnosic patient. Member of Columbia College Chicago School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture. Title of talk: Modularity in Cognitive ψ and Affective Neuroscience. My talk explores the psychological module in the context of findings from affective neuroscience. I contrast, in terms of practicality and veridicality, cognitive science's formulation of the cognitive module with Panksepp’s notion of basic biological behavioral systems. The deeper theme of my presentation is the question of human nature and the processes of the human animal we need to specify towards positing a biologically-based codification of the cognitive processes that constitute human nature. Stephen T. Asma, Ph.D in Philosophy of Science, is author of several books that seek to bridge the sciences and humanities. He is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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