{"title":"M Chirimuuta","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"brain-abstracted-book-m-chirimuuta-9780262548045","title":"The Brain Abstracted","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize from The Royal Institute of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWinner of the 2025 Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research is something as complicated as the brain, this challenge can stretch the limits of scientific possibility. In fact, in \u003ci\u003eThe Brain Abstracted\u003c\/i\u003e, an avowedly \"opinionated\" history of neuroscience, M. Chirimuuta argues that, due to the brain's complexity, neuroscientific theories have only captured partial truths-and \"neurophilosophy\" is unlikely to be achieved. Looking at the theory and practice of neuroscience, both past and present, Chirimuuta shows how the science has been shaped by the problem of brain complexity and the need, in science, to make things as simple as possible. From this history, Chirimuuta draws lessons for debates in philosophy of science over the limits and definition of science and in philosophy of mind over explanations of consciousness and the mind-body problem.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Brain Abstracted\u003c\/i\u003e is the product of a historical rupture that has become visible in the twenty-first century, between the \"classical\" scientific approach, which seeks simple, intelligible principles underlying the manifest complexity of nature, and a data-driven engineering approach, which dispenses with the search for elegant, explanatory laws and models. In the space created by this rupture, Chirimuuta finds grounds for theoretical and practical humility. Her aim in \u003ci\u003eThe Brain Abstracted\u003c\/i\u003e is not to reform neuroscience, or offer advice to neuroscientists, but rather to interpret their work-and to suggest a new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49748334805265,"sku":"NGR9780262548045","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51365652496657,"sku":"GOR014241627","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53434513686801,"sku":"GOR014918633","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262548046.jpg?v=1750940555"},{"product_id":"outside-color-book-m-chirimuuta-9780262534574","title":"Outside Color","description":"An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality? The metaphysical debate over color has gone on at least since the seventeenth century. In this book, M. Chirimuuta draws on contemporary perceptual science to address these questions. Her account integrates historical philosophical debates, contemporary work in the philosophy of color, and recent findings in neuroscience and vision science to propose a novel theory of the relationship between color and physical reality. Chirimuuta offers an overview of philosophy's approach to the problem of color, finds the origins of much of the familiar conception of color in Aristotelian theories of perception, and describes the assumptions that have shaped contemporary philosophy of color. She then reviews recent work in perceptual science that challenges philosophers' accounts of color experience. Finally, she offers a pragmatic alternative whereby perceptual states are understood primarily as action-guiding interactions between a perceiver and the environment. The fact that perceptual states are shaped in idiosyncratic ways by the needs and interests of the perceiver does not render the states illusory. Colors are perceiver-dependent properties, and yet our awareness of them does not mislead us about the world. Colors force us to reconsider what we mean by accurately presenting external reality, and, as this book demonstrates, thinking about color has important consequences for the philosophy of perception and, more generally, for the philosophy of mind.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50059160715537,"sku":"CIN0262534576G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52423738654993,"sku":"NLS9780262534574","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262534576.jpg?v=1750843820"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-m-chirimuuta.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}