Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

History and the hard problem

C. U. M. Smith and Harry Whitaker (eds): Brain, mind and consciousness in the history of neuroscience. (History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences, Volume 6) Dordrecht: Springer, 2014, xiv+369 pp, €129.99 HB

  • Book Review
  • Published:
Metascience Aims and scope

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Carter, Benjamin. 2010. Ralph Cudworth and the theological origins of consciousness. History of the Human Sciences 23(3): 29–47.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chalmers, David. 1995. Facing up to the problem of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies 2: 200–219.

    Google Scholar 

  • Finkelstein, G. 2013. Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hennig, Boris. 2010. Science, conscience, consciousness. History of the Human Sciences 23(3): 15–28.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Richards, Robert J. 1987. Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Samelson, Franz. 1981. Struggle for scientific authority: The reception of Watson’s behaviorism, 1913–1920. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 17: 399–425.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, C. U. M. 1982. Evolution and the problem of mind. Journal of the History of Biology 15:55–88, 241–262.

  • Smith, C. U. M. and Whitaker, Harry. (eds.). 2014. Brain, mind and consciousness in the history of neuroscience. Dordrecht: Springer.

  • Todes, Daniel P. 2014. Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vidal, Fernando 2011. The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology. Tr. Saskia Brown [from French, 2006]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  • Young, R. M. 1970. Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century: Cerebral Localization and Its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [New edn 1990].

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Emeritus Reader in History of Science, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Roger Smith

  2. Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia

    Roger Smith

Authors
  1. Roger Smith
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Roger Smith.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Smith, R. History and the hard problem. Metascience 24, 413–416 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-015-9999-7

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-015-9999-7

Search

Navigation