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  • A Perspective on Opioid Addiction

    by Jay Schulkin, Bryce Huebner ...
    Today, the opioid crisis often feels intractable. This book offers a wider perspective on its underlying causes, examining the biological, psychological, and social aspects of addiction and the interactions among them.Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, and Bryce Huebner, a philosopher, explore the complexities of opioid addiction through a distinctive combination of neuroscientific ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Mind in Nature

    John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Living

    by Mark L. Johnson, Jay Schulkin ...
    A dialogue between contemporary neuroscience and John Dewey’s seminal philosophical work Experience and Nature, exploring how the bodily roots of human meaning, selfhood, and values provide wisdom for living.The intersection of cognitive science and pragmatist philosophy reveals the bodily basis of human meaning, thought, selfhood, and values. John Dewey's revolutionary account of pragmatist ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Understanding Suicide in the United States

    A Social, Biological, and Psychological Perspective

    by Meaghan Stacy, Jay Schulkin ...
    By integrating sociological, psychological, and biological perspectives, this book aims to demystify and destigmatize a challenging and taboo topic – suicide. It weaves current theories and statistics on suicide into a larger message of how suicide can affect almost anyone, and how urgent prevention needs are. Written in an accessible manner, it assumes no pre-existing knowledge of suicide. The ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Mind Ecologies

    Body, Brain, and World

    by Matthew Crippen, Jay Schulkin ...
    Pragmatism—a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science—is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, the arts, and religious scholarship, along with branches of political theory, not to mention our understanding of science. But philosophies and sciences of mind have lagged behind this pragmatic turn, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Biological Cognition

    by Bryce Huebner, Jay Schulkin ...
    Series series Elements in Philosophy of Mind
    This Element introduces a biological approach to cognition, which highlights the significance of allostatic regulation and the navigation of challenges and opportunities. It argues that cognition is best understood as a juggling act, which reflects numerous ongoing attempts to minimize disruptions while prioritizing the sources of information that are necessary to satisfy social and biological ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Effort

    A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will

    by Jay Schulkin ...
    In Effort: A Behavioral Neuroscience Perspective on the Will, author Jay Schulkin presents a two-fold thesis: there is no absolute separation of the cognitive and non-cognitive brain, and there are diverse cognitive systems, many of which are embodied in motor systems that underlie self-regulation. Central to this thesis is that dopamine is the one neurotransmitter that underlies the diverse ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mind Ecologies

    Body, Brain, and World

    by Matthew Crippen, Jay Schulkin ...
    Pragmatism—a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science—is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, the arts, and religious scholarship, along with branches of political theory, not to mention our understanding of science. But philosophies and sciences of mind have lagged behind this pragmatic turn, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Bodily Sensibility

    Intelligent Action

    by Jay Schulkin ...
    Series series Series in Affective Science
    Although we usually identify our abilities to reason, to adapt to situations, and to solve problems with the mind, recent research has shown that we should not, in fact, detach these abilities from the body. This work provides an integrative framework for understanding how these abilities are affected by visceral reactions. Schulkin presents provocative neuroscientific research demonstrating that ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • The Evolution of Obesity

    by Michael L. Power, Jay Schulkin ...
    In this sweeping exploration of the relatively recent obesity epidemic, Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin probe evolutionary biology, history, physiology, and medical science to uncover the causes of our growing girth. The unexpected answer? Our own evolutionary success.For most of the past few million years, our evolutionary ancestors' survival depended on being able to consume as much as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Sport

    A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective

    by Jay Schulkin ...
    Sports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancient Greece to today's professional athletes, from adult pickup soccer games to children's gymnastics classes, people at all levels of ability at all times and in all places have engaged in sport. What drives this ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Brain in Context

    A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience

    by Jonathan D. Moreno, Jay Schulkin ...
    The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides in recent years in understanding aspects of the brain, yet we still struggle with seemingly fundamental questions about how the brain works. What lessons can we learn from neuroscience’s successes and failures? What kinds of questions can neuroscience answer, and what will remain ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Curt Richter

    A Life in the Laboratory

    by Jay Schulkin ...
    In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is learned, and how behavior could be quantified accurately. At the Johns Hopkins University's new Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Curt P. Richter stood aside from these heated theoretical arguments, choosing ... Read more

    $51.99 USD