Neurophilosophy since the Beginning until Now

More than 30 years ago, the term neurophilosophy was developed to describe a new domain of interdisciplinary researches. This term entered into philosophical discussions by the publication of Patricia Churchland’s book, neurophilosophy (1986), with the aim of introducing neuroscience to philosophers and philosophy to neuroscientists and the greater emphasis was on the first one. Neurophilosophy creates a particular interest to those who believe in physicalistic. For example, neurophilosophy has been able to fill the gap between consciousness and physical phenomena. This term reflects potentially revolutionary developments in which proposed theories about the mind are combined with neuroscience results about the organization of brain. The goal of neurophilosophy is to make cooperation among neuroscience, psychology, genetics, evolutionary biology and philosophy; so it leads to better understanding of the human mind.