Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience.by Schulkin PB**

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and NeuroscienceAuthor(s): Jay Schulkin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9783030231026, 978-3030231026\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and the pragmatist tradition of John Dewey. Schulkinproposes that human problem solving and the law are tied to a naturalistic, realistic and an anthropological understanding of the human condition. The situated character of legal reasoning, given its complexity, like reasoning in neuroscience, can be notoriously fallible. Legal and scientific reasoning is to be understood within a broader context in order to emphasize both the continuity and the porous relationship between the two.\n\nSome facts of neuroscience fit easily into discussions of human experience and the law.