History of Cognitive Neuroscience

History of Cognitive Neuroscience, by M. R. Bennett and P. M. S. Hacker. Wiley Blackwell Publishers, 2008, 312 pages (ISBN 978-1-4051-7711-5, CAS149.95, Hardcover)

Reviewed by RICHARD BROWN

DOI: 10.1037/a0019826

This is Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's third book on Philosophy and Neuroscience. The first, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (2003) was "the first systematic evaluation of the conceptual foundations of neuroscience" (p. vii). This book stimulated much comment, particularly for its critique of the ideas of Daniel Dennett and John Searle, which led to a second book, Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, mind and language (2007). This, the third book …