Philosophers interested in neuroscience! Is there a good overarching book or review paper you recommend on 'neuro-adjacent' philosophy? I'm thinking of topics like consciousness, agency, qualia, etc.
An overview of analytic, continental and non-western approaches would be nice.
Some resources:
Wayne Wu's review of the neuroscience of consciousness:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-neuroscience/
Evan Thompson is good at combining eastern and western traditions (e.g., his Waking, Dreaming, Being):
https://evanthompson.me/articles/
I review some relevant material in early chapters and try to make some progress on computation and consciousness in the last chapter of Neurocognitive Mechanisms (OUP 2020).
What I would love is a historical approach to philosophy of mind in the 20th century. How did we get to "the hard problem", "qualia", "Mary's room" etc? Most neuroscientists, if they are even aware of this stuff, have no idea about the history. I only have Wikipedia-level knowledge of most of it.
Ooh that's a good idea. Any recommendations for philosophy of mind course syllabi? Is there a place these are uploaded?
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