How best to 'go on'? Prospects for a 'Modern Synthesis in the sciences of mind

• Main Author: John Cromby (auth)
• Other Authors: Kevin Moore (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Levels of explanation; Enactivism; Argumentation; Theoretical synthesis; Reciprocity; multi-level systems; neurophenomenology; Developmental Systems Theory
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Psychology straddles areas from the biological to the social and cultural. Within that vast range, there have been recent explosions of interest in neuropsychology, genetics and epigenetics, and the evolutionary bases of mindedness. Correspondingly, there have been conceptual innovations and new emp...