Problems of Living: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Cognitive-Affective Science

Author: Dan J. Stein

Overview: This book addresses philosophical questions related to problems of living, including questions about the nature of the brain-mind, reason and emotion, happiness and suffering, goodness and truth, and the meaning of life. It draws on critical, pragmatic, and embodied realism as well as moral naturalism, and brings arguments from metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics together with data from cognitive-affective science.

Key Features:

• Drawing on the strongest aspects of polar positions in philosophy and psychiatry to help resolve important perennial debates in these fields.
• Exploring continuities between early philosophical work and current cognitive-affective sciences, including neuroscience and psychology.
• Employing findings from modern cognitive-affective science to rethink key long-standing debates in philosophy and psychiatry.
• Building on work showing how mind is embodied in the brain, and embedded in society, to provide an integrated conceptual framework.
• Assessing both the insights and the limitations of cognitive-affective science for addressing the big questions and hard problems of living.

Publication Details:

Publisher: Elsevier Science

Publication Date: May 11, 2021

Language: English

ISBN: 9780323902397, 9780323904391