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Walter applies the methodology of neurophilosophy to one of philosophy's central challenges, the notion of free will. Neurophilosophical conclusions are based on, and consistent with, scientific knowledge about the brain and its functioning.Neuroscientists routinely investigate such classical philosophical topics as consciousness, thought, language, meaning, aesthetics, and death. According to Henrik Walter, philosophers should in turn embrace the wealth of research findings and ideas provided by neuroscience. In this book Walter applies the methodology of neurophilosophy to one of philosophy's central challenges, the notion of free will. Neurophilosophical conclusions are based on, and consistent with, scientific knowledge about the brain and its functioning.Walter's answer to whether there is free will is, It depends. The basic questions concerning free will are (1) whether we are able to choose other than we actually do, (2) whether our choices are made intelligibly, and (3) whether we are really the originators of our choices. According to Walter, freedom of will is an illusion if we mean by it that under identical conditions we would be able to do or decide otherwise, while simultaneously acting only for reasons and being the true originators of our actions. In place of this scientifically untenable strong version of free will, Walter offers what he calls natural autonomy--self-determination unaided by supernatural powers that could exist even in an entirely determined universe. Although natural autonomy can support neither our traditional concept of guilt nor certain cherished illusions about ourselves, it does not imply the abandonment of all concepts of responsibility. For we are not mere marionettes, with no influence over our thoughts or actions.

Free will and determinism. --- Cognitive neuroscience. --- Free will and determinism --- Cognitive neuroscience --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Cognitive science --- Neuropsychology --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Neurosciences. --- NEUROSCIENCE/General --- PHILOSOPHY/General --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Philosophical anthropology

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The textbook builds a bridge between the "neurosciences" (theoretical and experimental neurobiology, neurology) and the "psychosciences" (psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy) and aims to help provide the other disciplines with the most important and scientifically validated knowledge in an understandable form. The question of how mental experience and brain processes relate to each other has long been considered mysterious. In this book you will learn, based on the latest scientific findings, that the two areas form an indissoluble unity, even if we experience and study them differently. We present this unity in concrete terms in psychological-neurobiological theory and psychiatric-psychotherapeutic practice. We treat the principles of neurobiological excitation and information processing, the structure and function of the limbic system, the development of the personality and the interaction of genetic-epigenetic factors and prenatal and postnatal environmental influences, which may be favourable or unfavourable. On this basis, the exemplary presentation of important mental disorders such as addictive disorders, schizophrenic disorders, affective disorders and anxiety disorders takes place. Finally, following in the footsteps of the eminent psychotherapist Klaus Grawe, the concept of "neuropsychotherapy" is introduced and it is shown why psychiatry-psychotherapie and neurobiology belong together and can enrich each other. Our psychoneuroscientific approach paints a picture of man that is not based on opposites, but on an integration of psyche, brain, behavior and experience. The editors Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. rer. nat Gerhard Roth researches and teaches at the Institute for Brain Research, University of Bremen. "Psyche, personality and brain form an inseparable unit, even if we experience them differently". Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Andreas Heinz is Clinic Director at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Charité Berlin. "The interplay of neurobiology, behavior and subjective experience is illuminated by new methods and models." Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Henrik Walter heads the research area "Mind and Brain" at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Charité Berlin and is the deputy medical director of the clinic. "Neuroscience education in the practice of psychiatry and psychotherapy is increasingly becoming a matter of course - and that's a good thing." This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Psychology --- Zoology --- Neuropathology --- neurologie --- neuropsychologie --- zoölogie

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Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general)