Inquiry, vision and objects: Foraging for coherence within neuroscience

Abstract: We come prepared to track events and objects, building our knowledge base while foraging for coherence. Classical pragmatism recognizes that the acquisition of knowledge is in part a contact sport (e.g. Peirce, Dewey). One of the aims of neuroscience is to capture human experience. One route to perhaps achieve this may be through the study of the visual system and its expansion in our evolutionary history. Embodied cephalic systems, as Dewey knew well, are tied to self-corrective inquiry. A philosophy of neuroscience needs to capture how such events are tracked, tested through experience, and subsequently modified in the brain to comprise a knowledge base.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Inquiry, vision and objects: Foraging for coherence within neuroscience ; volume:23 ; number:4 ; year:2013 ; pages:616-632 ; extent:17 ; Human affairs ; 23, Heft 4 (2013), 616-632 (gesamt 17)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Schulkin, Jay

Further information

• DOI: 10.2478/s13374-013-0153-1
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404291652420.946459106602
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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