Inquiry, vision and objects: Foraging for coherence within neuroscience

• Authors: Jay Schulkin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

neuroscience; pragmatism; vision; social contact

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 616-632

Dates

published

2013-10-01

online

2013-09-28

Contributors

author

Jay Schulkin

• Georgetown University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-013-0153-1